Douglas County, Georgia

County ranked by announced AI data-center load

Undisclosed Announced AI load

Campuses

Lead operator

CoreWeave

Resi rate Δ (Georgia Power)

+8.0%

Home price Δ (3y)

-5.2%

Property tax Δ (3y)

+17.9%

Population (2024 ACS)

148K

Median HH income (2024 ACS)

$82,984

Key takeaways

Douglasville is 20 miles west of Atlanta with 34,650 residents at the 2020 census and three interchanges on I-20. The CoreWeave / Flexential campus sits inside that I-20 transit corridor on Georgia Power feed.Source: sources[0] (Wikipedia: Douglasville, Georgia) + data/sites/data_centers.csv
Douglas County is the only AI county in this batch where 3-year home prices actually fell, dropping 5.2%. Property tax assessments still rose 17.9% over the same window, a 23-point spread that points to a reassessment cycle running ahead of the market.Source: data/cache/realestate_yoy.csv + data/cache/property_tax_yoy.csv (FIPS 13097)
County population is 146,141 with a median household income of $80,764, the second-highest in this batch. 30.8% of adults hold a bachelor's degree.Source: Census ACS 2023 B01003, B19013, B15003 (Douglas County, GA)
Georgia Power's residential rate rose 8.0% from 2021 to 2023, from 14.3 to 15.5 cents per kWh, on 2.45 million residential customers across the state. That adds about $124 per year on a typical 10,800 kWh household bill.Source: data/cache/utility_rate_yoy.csv (Georgia Power Co, GA)

49.2% of Douglas County residents are Black alone and 11.7% are Hispanic, making it a majority-minority I-20 exurb. The CoreWeave campus joins a county that is demographically much closer to south Fulton than to the white-majority Walton and Whitfield host counties in the Georgia group.Source: Census ACS 2023 B02001_001E, B02001_003E, B03003_001E, B03003_003E (Douglas County, GA)
Manufacturing is only 8.8% of Douglas County jobs against a 6.1% unemployment rate, the highest unemployment in this batch outside DeKalb Illinois. The county already had labor slack before any AI campus broke ground.Source: Census ACS 2023 C24050_001E, C24050_004E, B23025_002E, B23025_005E (Douglas County, GA)
93.0% of Douglas households have a broadband subscription, the highest connectivity rate in this batch. The customer base for the workloads the CoreWeave campus will host is largely already online inside the same county.Source: Census ACS 2023 B28002_001E, B28002_004E (Douglas County, GA)
Median gross rent is $1,447 and only 66.4% of housing units are owner-occupied. The 33.6% renter share is well above the rural-Georgia baseline and matches the I-20 commuter-corridor profile rather than a self-contained exurb.Source: Census ACS 2023 B25064_001E, B25003_001E, B25003_002E (Douglas County, GA)