The missing application

What is actually proposed?

Short answer

Not enough has been made public to calculate this project's environmental footprint.

Unverified description: The project has been described as a data center on a tract between Brady Road and Sweat Avenue in the J. Frank Myers Industrial Park. No public record documenting the site was located; the source for that description should be attached before any of it is repeated as an official project fact.

The decision officials are really making

A land-use approval can authorize a category of development long before the operator selects equipment. If the approval does not define full buildout, later phases may be much larger than the version discussed at the first meeting.

The enforceable project description should include:

Needed fact	Why it matters
Legal applicant, landowner, operator, and tenant	Establishes who is responsible
Every phase and building	Prevents impacts from being reviewed one slice at a time
IT load and total meter load	Drives heat, power, and backup generation
Final heat-rejection design	Determines whether cooling is dry, wet, or hybrid
Average-day and peak-day water demand	Tests ordinary and drought capacity
Generator inventory and operating hours	Distinguishes backup equipment from a power plant
Utility will-serve letters	Shows whether water, sewer, power, and gas capacity actually exist

Do not confuse these quantities

Land size describes where a project sits, not what it consumes.
IT megawatts power servers.
Total facility megawatts include cooling, pumps, lighting, and conversion losses.
Installed generator megawatts may exceed normal demand because of redundancy.
Plant capacity is not the same as a legal withdrawal limit or dependable supply.

Safe public statement

The available public information is insufficient to predict this project's water use, noise, emissions, or electricity demand. Those impacts depend on full-buildout load, cooling design, utility commitments, and generator operation, all of which should be disclosed before approval.

Records to obtain first

Application, concept plan, staff report, and draft ordinance
Parcel and ownership records
Development and tax agreements
Water, sewer, electric, and gas will-serve letters
Full-buildout power and water schedules
Cooling schematic and equipment list
Generator and fuel inventory
Environmental, stormwater, traffic, fire, and acoustic studies

Each of these sits with an identifiable custodian and can be requested in writing under the Georgia Open Records Act. See how to obtain the records and reach the officials.