CBRE's Trammell Crow Files Plans for Massive $8.4 Billion Data Center Campus Near Atlanta
November 28, 2025
The Atlanta metropolitan area is solidifying its status as a primary destination for hyperscale data center investment, with another colossal campus now in the planning stages. This latest proposal underscores the region's rapid transformation from a secondary market into a critical hub for digital infrastructure, driven by strong power availability, favorable geography, and growing demand from cloud and AI workloads.
CBRE Group's development arm, Trammell Crow Company, has filed a Developments of Regional Impact (DRI) application with the Georgia Department of Community Affairs for the "Forsyth Technology Campus." The planned mega-campus, located on a 1,630-acre site west of Interstate 75 in Monroe County, approximately 60 miles south of Atlanta, aims to develop up to 12 million square feet of technology facility space. The total investment for the project, which could see development activity continue until 2037, is estimated at up to $8.4 billion.
According to local reports, Trammell Crow is collaborating with timber firm H & H, which owns the land for the proposed campus. The filing represents one of the most ambitious single projects in a state that has seen a flood of large-scale data center proposals in recent years. The Forsyth project joins other major developments in the vicinity, including Cloverleaf Infrastructure's planned 4.2 million square foot Rumble Technology Campus and a separate 950-acre land purchase by Google in Monroe County for potential data center use.
The scale of this single campus highlights the intense capital deployment and land acquisition race within the data center industry. For Trammell Crow, a commercial real estate developer owned by CBRE since 2006, this marks a continued expansion of its data center portfolio. The company has previously filed for projects in Winston and outside Augusta, Georgia. In a statement to the Tri-City Herald regarding a separate potential project in Washington state, the firm noted its methodical approach, saying, "Trammell Crow Company is studying the feasibility of developing a portion of the Lewis & Clark land. Once our development plans are finalized, we will engage with the city of West Richland and the local community."
The implications of this planned development are significant for the broader Southeast US data center market. The concentration of such massive campuses around Atlanta will likely strain local power and water resources, intensify competition for skilled labor, and further establish Georgia as a top-tier data center jurisdiction. It also signals continued confidence from developers and their capital partners in the long-term growth of cloud computing and artificial intelligence, which require ever-larger footprints of secure, powered real estate.
Source: datacenterdynamics
CBRE's Trammell Crow Files Plans for Massive $8.4 Billion Data Center Campus Near Atlanta
