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The Data Center Divide

Peach County

This restriction takes precedence while in effect. The rating below excludes temporary restrictions.

Slightly Pro-Data Center Policies

Peach County’s enacted three-month moratorium temporarily bars new data-center applications from being accepted or approved in unincorporated areas; pending projects and uses with issued permits are exempt.

Rating from Georgia statewide as there are no scored current or future laws outside temporary restrictions for Peach County.

Specific to Peach County only.

current law · Unincorporated areas
Prohibits Peach County from processing new data center-related applications for four months, while exempting projects already pending or operating under permits.Peach County Temporary Data-Center Moratorium Resolution (2026)

What this means

The proposed three-month moratorium would temporarily stop the county from accepting or approving applications for new data center projects, making development substantially harder during that period ([three-month moratorium](https://peachcoga.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=900,plainText=false#:~:text=period%20of%20three%20(3)%20months)). It would not cover pending projects or land uses with permits already issued, and it applies only in unincorporated Peach County.

Timing

Ends
Three months after adoption, or earlier if revoked by resolution.

The moratorium applies to new data center projects. Pending projects and land uses with permits issued before the effective date are exempt.

People behind it

  • Submitted the Elections Department budget amendment for computer services.

  • Requested a computer replacement for a Tax Commissioner’s Office employee.

  • Is assigned the FY28 GDOT 5311 and 5307 grant application items.

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  • Is assigned the proposed 90-day data center moratorium extension; he presented the earlier moratorium resolution.

  • Requested the four listed FY26 budget and transport-charge actions.

  • Is assigned the Waste Management CPI adjustment and Traylor Business Services contract renewal items.

  • Requested the contracted annual CPI adjustment effective October 1, 2026.

  • Signed and sent Waste Management’s letter requesting the CPI adjustment.

  • Is assigned the podcast recording and hosting expense item.

  • Is identified as responsible for the local-legislation proposal concerning expanded Magistrate Court duties and the other listed Board Member items.

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  • A temporary moratorium bars new data center projects in unincorporated Peach County: County departments and staff may not accept, review, approve, or grant related zoning, rezoning, development, construction, permit, or land-use applications. The September 2026 draft sets the moratorium for three months, or until revoked earlier. It does not apply to projects already pending or to land uses with permits issued before the moratorium takes effect. The February 2026 meeting minutes record approval of an earlier four-month moratorium.

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  • The proposed moratorium would not apply to data center projects already pending with the County, allowing those projects to proceed without the new moratorium’s restrictions. Current projects pending in the County

  • The proposed moratorium would not apply to existing data center land uses for which the County issued a proper permit before the moratorium’s effective date. Land uses with a prior permit

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