Data centers and water
Data Center Water Use in Douglas County, GA
Douglas County, Georgia has 8 mapped data center facilities, including Google, carrying about 774 MW of estimated power load.
Water pressure for new demandHow hard a large new water user, like a data center, would press on this county's water. It blends recent drinking-water compliance, drought, and existing industrial demand. Higher pressure means new demand competes harder with current uses. It is not a judgment about whether one should be built.
Moderate water pressure
Douglas County has no health violations in the last 5 years, severe drought, low existing industrial water demand.
- Mapped facilities
- 8
- EPA + OpenStreetMap layers
- Estimated power load
- 774 MW
- IM3 Atlas capacity estimate
- Permitted discharge
- 600K gal/day
- Clean Water Act permit fields
- DCWSI national rank
- #10
- of 318 scored counties
The operators
How many data centers are in Douglas County?
8 facilities are mapped to Douglas County, Georgia across the EPA and OpenStreetMap layers, run by operators including Google. Counts reflect mapped footprint, not an operator's total fleet.
- OpenStreetMap
Centersquare Atlanta ATL1
Lithia Springs, GA
- OpenStreetMap
Digital Realty Atlanta ATL11
Digital Realty · Austell, GA
- OpenStreetMap
Flexential Atlanta - Douglasville 1
Flexential · Douglasville, GA
- OpenStreetMap
Flexential Atlanta - Douglasville 2
Flexential · Douglasville, GA
- OpenStreetMap
Google Datacenter - Douglas County
Google · 13
- EPA ECHO
GOOGLE, LLC
Google · LITHIA SPRINGS, GA
- EPA CWA
GOOGLE, LLC
Google · LITHIA SPRINGS, GA
- OpenStreetMap
Switch Data Center
Switch · Lithia Springs, GA
Supply versus demand
How much water do Douglas County data centers use?
Exact facility water draw is rarely public. As a screening proxy we compare the Clean Water Act permitted discharge mapped to these facilities against the county's entire industrial water baseline from the USGS 2020 series.
The Clean Water Act permitted discharge from mapped data centers in Douglas County equals about 216% of the county's reported industrial water baseline.
- Mapped facility discharge
- 0.60 Mgal/day
- County industrial baseline
- 0.28 Mgal/day
Model a build
Can Douglas County support more data centers?
Douglas County carries 26 on the water-pressure scale, so new large-load demand warrants closer scrutiny. Size a hypothetical build to see the daily draw against the county industrial baseline.
Data Center Water Budget Calculator
Estimate daily water use for a hypothetical facility in Douglas County.
Your facility would use 287.7% of this county's industrial water baseline. Verify water rights and long-term drought projections before committing.
Based on USGS 2020 water-use data and EPA-standard cooling intensity constants. Not a substitute for site-specific water rights analysis.
In context
How does Douglas County compare nationally?
- DCWSI build-out rank
- #10
- of 318 counties with a stress score
- Water pressure vs median
- +7
- national median is 19 of 100
- Share of mapped load
- 0.5%
- of 166.02 GW mapped nationally
Douglas County is one of 330 US counties with mapped data centers. See the full ranking and the interactive map in the national atlas.
Facility data combines EPA ECHO, EPA Clean Water Act permits, OpenStreetMap, and the IM3 Open Source Data Center Atlas (DOE/PNNL), geocoded to county FIPS. Capacity and water baselines come from IM3 and USGS 2020 water-use data. These are county-level screening figures, not a facility-level water-use audit. Read the full methodology.