Baconton power generation facility (data-center-linked, NextEra-linked)
Baconton (Mitchell County), Mitchell County, Georgia
Approximate area
A permit or approval is on record. Construction may not have started.
Status inferred from agw source doc (Tue, 08 Se). No filing states it in as many words.
- Status
- Permitted (inferred)
- Owner
- Owner not resolved
- Capacity
- 1,500 MW
- Location known to
- Approximate area
- County
- Mitchell County
- State
- Georgia
- Electric utility
- Not identified
- Grid operator
- not stated
Location and nearby
Baconton power generation facility (data-center-linked, NextEra-linked) is on record as permitted in Mitchell County, Georgia. A record puts its capacity at 1,500 MW. No other campus on record lies within 25 miles.
What is on record
Owner
Owner not resolved
- Capacity
- 1,500 MW from agw
- Diesel generators
- No air permit found in the records we collect
- Water
- Not collected. State water withdrawal permits are not in this build.
- Electric utility
- More than one utility serves this county, and no filing we hold names which one
How the status changed
- Permitted Aug 14, 2026 inferred
AI GridWatch stage/outcome: approved|approved; source press
About this data
Evidence
Directory listing only
One or more public directories list it. We have not matched it to a filing.
Location known to
Approximate area
Approximate. Good enough for a neighbourhood, not for a driveway.
Independent sources
1
tracker lead. Directories count once between them, because they copy each other.
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Where this comes from
2 source records back this page. Each row is a document we retrieved and kept, so a claim can be checked against the original.
| Document | Role | Row | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Source cited by AI GridWatch for Baconton power generation facility (data-center-linked, NextEra-linked): https://www.wctv.tv/2026/08/13/enough-is-enough-mitchell-county-residents-push-recall-commissioners-after-controversial- US-GA | Context | url=https://www.wctv.tv/2026/08/13/enough-is-enough-mitchell-county-residents-push-recall-commissioners-after-controversial-data-center-rezoning/ | Aug 14, 2026 last changed on the server |
| agw_projects tracker export (AI GridWatch (aigridwatch.com), CC BY 4.0.) US | Context | id=mitchell-county-baconton-power-plant | Aug 14, 2026 last changed on the server |
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