In 2024 alone, Georgia’s data center industry helped:

• Contribute approximately $29.08 billion to the state’s GDP 
• Generate an estimated $2.05 billion in state and local tax revenue – enough to fund nearly one-third of the state’s construction, maintenance, and operation of transportation infrastructure. 
• Provide more than $16 billion in labor income to hardworking Georgians.

Keeping data centers on American soil is critical to our national security. In addition to securing our sensitive information in the United States, data centers also provide the digital infrastructure that ensures U.S. competitiveness in artificial intelligence and other cutting edge technologies that are essential to our economic competitiveness and national security.

Data centers are critical infrastructure enabling America’s technological and environmental future. They support the digitization of our economy, widespread vehicle and building electrification, the onshoring of advanced manufacturing, growth in controlled environment agriculture, and other 21st-century economic drivers.

In fact, while data center computing workloads increased nearly 550% percent between 2010 and 2018, electricity consumption grew only 6%, due to efficiencies from the cloud migration, improvements in cooling systems, and other operational and technological efficiency gains at modern data centers.

• Wind and solar capacity contracted to data center providers and customers represented half of the total U.S. corporate renewables market in 2024.
• Four of the top five purchasers of renewable energy in the U.S. are data center companies
• Many operators have committed to carbon neutrality and 100% clean energy by 2030.

Data centers are some of the largest buyers of clean energy, contributing to our collective sustainability goals. The data center industry has accelerated the economy-wide transition to clean energy and has created demand for more clean energy in the regions where they operate.

Data centers accelerate the clean energy transition in the U.S. with commitments to purchase clean energy and by funding the development of new sources of clean energy. In fact, wind and solar capacity contracted to data center providers and customers represented two-thirds of the total U.S. corporate renewables market last year and four of the top five purchasers of renewable energy in the U.S. are companies that operate data centers. Many data center companies have committed to being carbon neutral and supporting their operations with 100% clean energy by 2030.