Big plans for big data: Columbia County could be new site for massive technology park

Columbia County is a step closer to creating a nearly 2,000-acre technology park that could accommodate more than 8 million square feet of data centers.

The county’s planning commission is scheduled to consider a request Thursday, May 1 from the Economic Development Authority of Columbia County to rezone two pieces of property totaling 1,945.05 acres behind White Oak Business Park, between Harlem and Appling, a recent application showed.

The county placed the project’s “estimated value at build-out” at $11.6 billion, and is expected to collect more than $118 million annually in estimated local tax revenue, according to a separate filing with the state…

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