No Data Centers in Statesboro.
Neighbors across Statesboro are signing to say no to the data center on Burkhalter Road. Here's where the count stands.
New · Georgia Data Center Watch
29 sites and local rules across the state: 7 data centers filed or approved, 4 suspected sites, 11 crypto mines, and 7 moratoriums or local rules. Built from open records requests, state filings and news reports. Tap any dot for the details and the source.
Open the WatchAttention
Come to a meeting. We're neighbors who don't want a data center next to our homes, and we'd love to have you. No experience needed. Bring a friend.
However you vote, whoever you love, whatever you believe, if you're tired of big companies deciding what happens to our land and water, you belong here. Let's show them how many of us there are.
Speak up. They are asking for public comment. If a data center worries you, say so. Come to the meetings above and speak. Then fill out the City and Georgia Southern's 5-minute community survey. It asks what challenges you have living in Statesboro, what you want done about them, and who should work on it. Write in your concerns about data centers: your water, your power bill, the noise, your home. Put it in writing.
Sign the PetitionNew Map: every data center site we are tracking in Georgia In the news Your Newsroom (Georgia Southern student news, video): "Statesboro Residents Work Against Proposed Data Center" WSAV, Oct. 6: "'Protect Statesboro' leads resistance against local data center" Statesboro Herald, Oct. 2: "Group called Protect Statesboro plans petition for election to repeal data center ordinance" WTOC, Sept. 22: "Candler County commissioners hear public comment on data centers"
The contradiction
Which is it? The City can't treat the customer as unknown when it's time to approve the permit, and as known enough when it's time to count the money. Wait for a named operator and an independent fiscal study before any vote.
See every document side by side →Active signatures verified inside city limits
We're still checking addresses one at a time, so the city and district numbers will keep growing. Every active signature is already in the main total. A signer only gets a district once we've confirmed their address is inside Statesboro.
02 Proposed Site
6539 Burkhalter Road · Statesboro, Georgia · City Council District 5
03 Before Final Approval
The rezoning wasn't the final yes. Council still has to vote on a Special Use Permit. Before it does, we should know who would run this place, how it would run, and what it would cost us. Here are six things we still haven't been told. Tap one to read more.
The builder asked Georgia Power for up to 99 megawatts. That's one under the 100 megawatt line, where Georgia's strongest protections for regular customers kick in. Under 100, the deal stays private until it's signed. Whether it covers the grid upgrades is in a private contract the public can't see. We're asking Council to review the contract, confidentially, before it votes.
Read more →The fiscal impact study was paid for by the developer, using the developer's numbers. Almost all the promised money is property tax, and the state auditor says these deals get oversold.
Read more →No operator has been named. The City's noise, water and gas rules measure real machines, and the developers haven't picked the machines yet.
Read more →The developers haven't said how many diesel backup generators there would be, how big, or where they'd sit. The City's testing rules and the state's air permit both depend on knowing.
Read more →The builder's own noise test found the land already over the City's low-rumble limit, at every spot tested, before anything was built.
Read more →Our tap water comes from the Floridan aquifer. The builder's water number is "conceptual," and the Army Corps has no record of the wetland review the City described.
Read more →Council shouldn't vote on the permit until it has these answers.
Neighboring fight · Candler County
Next door in Metter, a developer wants to build five data center buildings on about 470 acres by the Metter-Candler airport. Candler commissioners dropped their moratorium on October 5, and the rezoning application is now filed. Across I-16, Metter is taking in another 100 acres. Read the public records behind it.
Public record
Every open records request we've made and what came back, every letter we've sent to the PSC, the City and our senators, and how this project got here, step by step.
Self-reported affiliations among active petition signers
Community-connection categories overlap because a signer may select more than one. The Bulloch County resident total counts each active signer once, even when both residency options were selected. Self-reported residency is distinct from address-verified city-limit status.