Review and comment: DRI for Project Arrowhead Datacenter, Irwin County, GA 2026-04-24

Everyone has two weeks, until Monday, May 11, 2026, to review and comment on the Development of Regional Importance (DRI) application by Project Arrowhead to build a huge datacenter in Irwin County, Georgia, near Irwinville and the Alapaha River.

The attachments SGRC sent are on the WWALS website, with images of each page below.

https://wwals.net/pictures/2026-04-24-dri-irwin-county-project-arrowhead

I see nothing from the applicant that WWALS hasn’t previously posted, such as when the DRI application appeared on April 10.

The Southern Georgia Regional Commission (SGRC) has helpfully annotated the Kimley-Horn site maps we saw back in March, and added other useful maps.

Plus SGRC points out the most significant part of the Data Center Ordinance the Irwin County Commission passed on April 6: the table permitting a Data Center as a Special Exception (SE) allowable use in the Agriculture (A-U), Heavy Industrial (H-I), and the Adult Commercial (C-A). I’m not sure that ordinance added SE for A-U, but it certainly called it out.

For much about what we do not know, such as who the real applicant is, or what closed loop cooling means in this case, see Who is Project Arrowhead in Irwin County, GA? –Vesper 2026-04-16.

https://wwals.net/?p=70067

For much more about Datacenters, see:

https://wwals.net/issues/datacenters

Review and comment: DRI for Project Arrowhead Datacenter, Irwin County, GA, Comment to SGRC by May 11, 2026

Received by email Friday, April 24, 2026, at 7:32 PM:

Greetings All:
You are receiving this email because you are affiliated with a city, county, state government, or other concerned agency that could be affected by a proposed data center development for Irwin County, Georgia. The size and scale of a proposed data center development in Irwin County, Georgia has either met or exceeded the threshold for a required Development of Regional Impact (DRI) review as mandated by the State of Georgia. By virtue of this email, you now have the opportunity to review and comment on the proposed development prior to it moving forward. Please assess how it may affect your jurisdiction and place those comments on the form provided.

Attached to this email is a packet of information that concerns the Irwin County DRI # 4689 which has been formally submitted to the Georgia Department of Community Affairs DRI site. Please review the packet and, if you feel so inclined, please fill out the comment form and return it to me with your comments no later than the close of business on Monday May 11, 2026.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions that you may have concerning the packet of materials that you have received.
To view the DRI #4689, Project Arrowhead Part 1 and Part 2 application on the Georgia Department of Community Affairs website, please use the following link:
https://apps.dca.ga.gov/DRI/default.aspx
Thank you,
James A. Horton, MHP
Planning Director
SGRC
1937 Carlton Adams Drive
Valdosta, GA 31601
(229) 333-5277

-jsq, John S. Quarterman, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®

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DRI Comment Form, Blank, Fillable, 2026-04-24 –SGRC
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