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Old 10-18-2018, 08:28 AM
 
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Construction is underway on Facebook's giant new data center east of Atlanta near Covington, Ga. Atlanta Business Chronicle photographer Byron E. Small has just captured never-seen-before images of the project. Check them out in the attached slideshow.

The construction of Facebook’s Newton County Data Center is on schedule to be completed in 2020. The project is being developed on 416 acres in Stanton Springs, a 1,620-acre master-planned development about 30 miles east of Atlanta.

The project ranks as the second-largest economic development win for Georgia during the two terms of Gov. Nathan Deal (see a ranking here.) And it's adjacent to a new $1.2 billion biomedical products plant just opened by Shire PLC.

Facebook is now hiring for five positions in Newton County, including two critical facilities engineers, a data center site manager, a site coordinator, and a data center connectivity manager.


FULL STORY: https://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/...facebooks.html

SOURCE: Atlanta Business Chronicle
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Old 10-18-2018, 10:18 AM
 
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And to think this *almost* came to the largest tract of undeveloped land on GA 54 between Fayetteville and Peachtree City (adjacent to Piedmont Fayette Hospital and Pinewood Studios). After looking at these photos, I'm so grateful it did not. Ugh.
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Old 10-18-2018, 04:30 PM
 
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And to think this *almost* came to the largest tract of undeveloped land on GA 54 between Fayetteville and Peachtree City (adjacent to Piedmont Fayette Hospital and Pinewood Studios). After looking at these photos, I'm so grateful it did not. Ugh.
What, you don't like austere brutalist design for warehouse spaces and unshaded parking dropped in the middle of a forested area?


Those two crosswalks seem quite lonely.
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Old 10-18-2018, 05:47 PM
 
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Wait, we only got 5 jobs out of that whole thing?
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Old 10-18-2018, 06:19 PM
 
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Wait, we only got 5 jobs out of that whole thing?
100 tech jobs at full operation, which IMO is better than 300 warehouse jobs any day.
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Old 10-18-2018, 08:26 PM
 
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100 tech jobs at full operation, which IMO is better than 300 warehouse jobs any day.
Considering the moral construction of the warehouse workers I've encountered, 300 of their kind is a net negative.

Does anyone know if they have applied for a large well permit? I know the goggle datacentern in SC pulls an insane amount of water out of the ground each day.
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Old 10-19-2018, 02:20 AM
 
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And to think this *almost* came to the largest tract of undeveloped land on GA 54 between Fayetteville and Peachtree City (adjacent to Piedmont Fayette Hospital and Pinewood Studios). After looking at these photos, I'm so grateful it did not. Ugh.
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What, you don't like austere brutalist design for warehouse spaces and unshaded parking dropped in the middle of a forested area?


Those two crosswalks seem quite lonely.
That's okay.

Newton County (which does not necessarily have the advantages in attracting economic development projects that other counties in the Atlanta metro area might have) will gladly take the massive economic development win that the Facebook data center has brought to the county, utilitarian/brutalist looks and all.

A county like Newton is not too picky and cannot really be as picky as other more prominent counties in the metro area might be able to be when it comes to courting major economic development projects.

Newton County does not necessarily have corporations and developers tripping over each other to bring economic development projects to the area like other parts of metro Atlanta seemingly might have.

Newton County will happily take and celebrate whatever type of major economic development win (and the increased property, sales and income tax revenues that come with it) that it can get.
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Old 10-19-2018, 02:33 AM
 
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Why are people so down on warehouse jobs? Less-skilled people need work.
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Old 10-19-2018, 03:05 AM
 
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As this Facebook data center project in Newton County is one of numerous major economic development projects that has been recruited to Georgia with the help of Nathan Deal during his tenure as Georgia's governor, there was a link to a related story in the Atlanta Business Chronicle under the Facebook data center story that went into some detail about Nathan Deal's legacy being cemented as one of the strongest economic development governors in the history of the state of Georgia, as well as in the history of the post-Reconstruction/post-Civil Rights Movement era South...

"Gov. Deal cements strong economic development legacy (Slideshow)" (Atlanta Business Chronicle)
https://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/...velopment.html

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In all, Deal's largest 25 economic development projects have included the expansions and relocations of NCR Corp. (NYSE: NCR), Mercedes-Benz USA and Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT). Those 25 largest projects alone brought more than 22,000 jobs to the state and lured more than $5 billion investment since 2011.
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Old 10-19-2018, 03:45 AM
 
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That's okay.

Newton County (which does not necessarily have the advantages in attracting economic development projects that other counties in the Atlanta metro area might have) will gladly take the massive economic development win that the Facebook data center has brought to the county, utilitarian/brutalist looks and all.

A county like Newton is not too picky and cannot really be as picky as other more prominent counties in the metro area might be able to be when it comes to courting major economic development projects.

Newton County does not necessarily have corporations and developers tripping over each other to bring economic development projects to the area like other parts of metro Atlanta seemingly might have.

Newton County will happily take and celebrate whatever type of major economic development win (and the increased property, sales and income tax revenues that come with it) that it can get.
I’m not knocking Newton County. I’m just really surprised that Fayette County officials so aggressively pursued such a project, which really does not fit in with their long history of well-planned, controlled development ... and in particular development in the heart of the county, which remains largely rural even with the booming medical district and adjacent Pinewood Studios / Forest. In hindsight I think Facebook would have been a bad fit for Fayette, and ruined any opportunity to do something much more impressive with that large piece of land fronting right oh GA 54 (see map below)
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