Frequently Asked Questions

Project Turbo will have low impact on water resources.

Gainesville is one of five municipalities that are permitted by the Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPD) to withdraw surface water from Lake Lanier for municipal water supply.

Gainesville’s current permitted limits for withdrawing from Lake Lanier:

• Max 24-hour day: 35 Million gallons / day

Project Turbo Water Usage:

• Max 24-hour day: 225,000 gallons / day

Project Turbo’s water usage is well-within the available capacity the Gainesville DWR has at its discretion to provide.

No. Water used at the data center will not effect other customers on the same lines.

• Through the Gainesville DWR, Project Turbo conducted pressure tests at the two water lines that would service the site to ensure that the facility is designed within these limits.

• The flow rates at the fire hydrants closest to the site are 765 gallons per minute and 1,203 gallons per minute at 20 PSI.

• The hydrant flow test supports that these 2 hydrants can provide over 2.8 million gallons / day.

Project Turbo will use a hybrid architecture combining air-cooled and liquid-cooled systems.

• The water used in the liquid-cooled loop (liquid-to-chip/L2C) will be recycled continuously through the L2C loop until the concentration of dissolved minerals and treatment chemicals builds up enough to make the water too “hard” or corrosive to continue through the cooling loop (a result of the evaporative process that removes pure water and causes the buildup in minerals).

• Once discharged, the “hard” water will then be recycled and used elsewhere on-site for gray water uses (like irrigation), before being treated onsite and eventually returned to sanitary sewer (with POTW approval) or a permitted EPD/NPDES outfall with sampling and reporting requirements.

• Project Turbo has access to (2) water lines: an 8" on O’Kelly and a 12" on Wallace Rd. Through Gainesville DWR, Project Turbo performed flow tests on the hydrants at the site, showing that the water lines are capable of supplying over 2.8 MGPD combined, leaving over 2.5 MGPD of available flow in the water lines after Project Turbo’s water needs.

No. Power consumed for Project Turbo is separately sourced, not from existing grid load.

In January 2025, the Georgia PSC (Public Service Commission) "voted unanimously on Thursday to approve a new rule that allows Georgia Power to charge new data centers in a manner that will protect ratepayers from cost shifting.

In addition to site specific costs, the data centers would pay for costs incurred by upstream generation, transmission and distribution to these large-load power users as construction of the data centers progresses.

This protects Georgia Power’s residential and other commercial/industrial customers.”

Georgia EMC’s have adopted similar protocols to ensure that the upstream costs of infrastructure upgrades are paid for by the data centers to ensure that ratepayers are protected and prevents cost-shifting.

Equipment at the data center will produce 60-70 decibels of noise — about as loud as a washing machine or vacuum cleaner.

The noise level is expected to be slightly lower at the property boundaries, about 55 decibels.  

Generators will ONLY run during Emergency grid outages. Regular testing will be conducted in phases and batches in order to stay below the required noise threshold.

The data center is estimated to produce 82 tons / year.

For reference, 1 roll-off dumpster (like one used in a home renovation) holds approximately 8 tons.