Developer Plans To Complete Tilford Yard Complex With 218K SF Data Center
Two years after buying a large swath of Downtown Atlanta land formerly held by railroad giant CSX, data center developer Edged Energy is finishing what it started.
The firm is looking to finish out a 218K SF data center facility at Tilford Yard by adding data halls, dedicated warehouse space and administrative offices, according to an application filed with the city of Atlanta this week.
Edged, a subsidiary of Connecticut-based clean infrastructure developer Endeavour, received the green light from the city in March to develop the $50M shell of the warehouse facility. Now, the developer is seeking to spend an additional $217M to build out the interior.
The developer wants to proceed in phases so the tenant or tenants can start moving into areas that are completed sooner, according to the application.
The application was filled out by the firm’s general contractor, Brasfield & Gorrie.
Endeavour spokesperson Jennifer Hayes declined to identify the tenant or tenants of the new space due to confidentiality and cybersecurity reasons. Hayes said once this building at 1968 Marietta Road is complete, the Edged campus at Tilford Yard will be, as well.
“The facility is the third building on the campus and will deliver ultra-energy-efficient IT capacity and advanced cooling that consumes zero water,” Hayes said in an email to Bisnow.
Endeavour purchased a 55-acre portion of the 300-acre Tilford Yard site in 2023 on Atlanta’s Westside for more than $94M from TPA Group. It began construction that same year on a two-building data center campus with a two-story, 209K SF building and a 450K SF facility. Both buildings use waterless cooling technology.
The Atlanta project is part of its gigawatt-scale pipeline of dozens of sites operating and under construction across the U.S. and Europe, Hayes said. Edged’s two completed Tilford Yard facilities, encompassing 127 megawatts of power, are fully leased.
Hayes said Edged picked the Tilford Yard location because of the area’s highly skilled workforce and the yard’s location along an extensive fiber network.
“The site boasts strong fiber infrastructure that supports low-latency cloud and enterprise workloads. This is particularly important to us,” she said.
Endeavour is one of many entrants into the data center fray in Metro Atlanta. Companies such as Digital Realty, Microsoft, Cloverleaf Infrastructure and T5 Data Centers all have announced new data center projects.
Total data center IT capacity in Georgia has skyrocketed from more than 1,600 MW of power in 2021 to more than 19,600 MW this year. Capacity nearly tripled in 2024 alone, according to data center research firm DC Byte.
Georgia Power projected that total regional power demand is set to triple by the mid-2030s, in part because of rising data center requirements.
Concerns over power usage and water consumption have created backlash against proposed data center projects across the metro area.
Atlanta banned new data center projects along the 22-mile stretch of the Atlanta BeltLine. In addition, DeKalb, Bartow, Coweta and Douglas counties have all issued moratoriums on new data center development.
