Construction of the 200-acre ‘Project Azalea’ data center in McDuffie County, Georgia, was approved by local authorities yesterday.

Commissioners voted 4-1 in favor of the campus, estimated by city officials to have a value of $1 billion and an annual local tax revenue of $25 million.

It will consist of six data center buildings located at 2660-2358 Randall Hunt Road in the city of Thomson, and will use 400MW of energy supplied by the Georgia utility company Jefferson Energy.

But “sufficient energy supply is not available to serve this project,” according to a report written by the Central Savannah River Area Regional Commission, a planning agency.

“Studies are ongoing with GA Power, Georgia Transmission Corporation, and the EMC to determine what upgrades are necessary,” it added.

The campus will also establish its own substation and backup generators.

The project, which also received a recommendation of approval from the county’s Planning Commission earlier this month, could be completed by 2029, according to a Development of Regional Impact application filed in January.

The data center is linked to Project Turbo LLC, which proposed now-withdrawn plans to build a 145-acre data center in Gainesville, Hall County, also located in Atlanta.

McDuffie County is situated west of Augusta, which sits on Georgia’s eastern border with South Carolina.