The Data Center Divide
A policy snapshot ahead of the 2026 midterms. Mapping data center incentives, restrictions, and bans through legislation, regulations, and executive actions across all 50 states and 1,462 local jurisdictions.
McDuffie County
Slightly Pro-Data Center Policies
Georgia offers qualifying data centers sales-tax breaks on equipment through 2031, subject to investment, job, and reporting requirements, with repayment and interest possible if targets are missed. Large new power users may also face extra charges and stricter billing terms.
Rating and summary from Georgia statewide as there are no scored current or future laws outside temporary restrictions for McDuffie County.
current law · County measureEvaluates the regional impacts of Project Azalea, a proposed data-center development, but does not itself create a data-center law.McDuffie County Project Azalea rezoning approval (2026)
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The project may proceed through a proposed industrial rezoning and development-plan approval, allowing a data-center campus to be built on the site, subject to local approvals and applicable conditions. proposed data-center campus
The project includes extending or constructing supporting infrastructure—including electric service, roads, water, and wastewater facilities—needed to serve the data-center campus. These improvements remain subject to utility coordination, engineering, and required approvals. supporting infrastructure
Future development phases may use the approved master-plan framework, reducing the need to treat each planned campus component as an entirely separate development, provided the phases remain consistent with the approved project and applicable review requirements. approved project
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