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A large data center campus is being planned outside Augusta, Georgia.

Commercial real estate firm and CBRE subsidiary Trammel Crow Company this week filed a Development of Regional Impact application with the Georgia Department of State Affairs for a technology campus known as the White Oak Technology Park.

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Located in Columbia County’s Appling, off Morris Callaway Road & Innovation Parkway, the technology park aims to “attract and accommodate world-class technology businesses and data center development.”

The campus would total 8.076 million sq ft (750,285 sqm) of proposed buildings, including 8.004 million sq ft (743,595 sqm) of data centers.

Proposed uses include data centers, research & development facilities, cybersecurity providers, digital infrastructure and advanced technology companies, and other uses associated with data centers and technology facilities.

The first phase would be developed within the next two years, with the remaining phases built out over the next decade and beyond.

An Amazon fulfillment center is already located in the existing 612-acre White Oak Business Park in Appling.

Commissioner Alison Couch of District 4 last week said that the Columbia County Development Authority was about to file a rezoning application requesting 1,900 acres next to the White Oak Industrial Park be granted a Special Use (S-1) zoning. The request would allow for data centers, R&D facilities, and related uses.

“I have been researching Technology Parks for months, [including] on-site visits to multiple data centers in the state,” she said. “Based on my observations, I have concluded this use of land offers extremely low overall impact to the surrounding area, while generating tremendous tax revenues in return. I believe this to be the best possible type of development on this property that we could hope for.”

T5 previously had a campus in development in Augusta, a city in northeast Georgia on the state border with South Carolina, but is no longer involved in the project.

Trammell Crow Company is a commercial real estate development company owned by CBRE since 2006. The company was previously involved in filing for a data center project outside Atlanta in Winston. That campus will total 2.255 million sq ft (209,500 sqm) across seven two-story buildings. The first phase of the project will be completed by 2027.

Construction firm Hourigan has developed a separate and unrelated data center park known as the White Oak Technology Park outside Richmond, Virginia. Meta, Iron Mountain, and QTS are known customers of that park.

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Miguel Legoas is a Deep South Connect Team Reporter for Gannett/USA Today. Find him on X and Instagram @miguelegoas and email atmlegoas@gannett.com.

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Augusta, Ga- Augusta fell to North Georgia in game two of their series on Saturday afternoon at Jaguar field 31-1. The Jaguars are now 5-9 in the conference and 8-25 overall. The first place Nighthawks move to 12-2 in the conference and 23-9 overall.

The lone run for the Jaguars came in the first inning when Nolan Turner doubled to lead off the game. Mike Morrison would follow with a RBI single to plate Turner. For Morrison, he extended his hit streak to 25 straight games.

Parker Ingram and Eli Overstreet also collected hits for AU.

The UNG offense would be the story in scoring runs in all but one inning.

The series wraps up Sunday morning with the first pitch scheduled for 11 a.m.

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Jake Vachon and Zach Kwiatkowski both homered but it was North Georgia picking up the 16-5 win on Friday night at Jaguar Field. D-Bat Evans was on hand to provide fun activities for the kids in attendance in support of AU athletics with both the baseball and softball teams. Augusta is now 8-24 on the year and 5-8 in the Peach Belt Conference. The Nighthawks improve to 22-9 and 11-2 in the conference as they are also in first place in the PBC.

The Nighthawks jumped out to the lead the first two innings and would never be challenged.

The Jaguars got on the board in the third when Vachon blasted a solo homer for their first run of the game.

In the sixth, it would be Kwiatkowski also hitting a solo home run.

AU did do some damage in the seventh scoring three times. Mike Morrison singled to lead off the inning and extended his hitting streak to 24 straight games. That was followed by Kwiatkowski's second hit of the night and a Ty McClintock single. Aidan Cannaday would come up with a RBI single and then a bases loaded walk to

AUGUSTA, Ga. - State regents decided Tuesday to leave in-state tuition the same at Augusta University and most other public colleges and universities in the state.

Out-of-state tuition will increase by 2%, and out-of-country tuition will rise by 3% for the 2025-2026 academic year.

This is the seventh time in 10 years for tuition costs to stay flat for Georgia students across most institutions.

Regents voted Tuesday to hold costs level at 18 of the system’s 26 schools, while costs will rise at six schools and fall at two others.

The typical Georgia school will charge in-state undergraduates $6,466 in tuition and mandatory fees for two semesters next year.

Tuition and fees will range from $3,506 at Swainsboro-based East Georgia State College to $12,002 at Georgia Tech in Atlanta.

The biggest changes will come at Albany State University and the University of North Georgia. Both institutions are beginning to raise the lower rates they have charged for two-year associate’s degrees to match the rates they charge for four-year degrees.

Costs will also rise slightly at Clayton State University, Dalton State College, Fort Valley State University and the University of Georgia because of increases in mandatory fees, although tuition itself will stay flat.

The typical in-state student continues to pay less than in 2022. After that year, regents eliminated a fee that was charged on top of tuition, lowering costs at almost all institutions.

But costs are going up for students from outside Georgia. Tuition for students from other states will rise by 2%, while tuition for students from outside the country will rise by 3%. Those students pay tuition rates that are more than three times what in-state students pay. Institutions sometimes waive out-of-state charges.

“The system’s priorities of graduating more students, affordability and efficiency are always at the forefront when setting tuition rates,” Chief Fiscal Officer Tracey Cook told regents during their meeting at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro. “The board’s actions over the past several years have definitely reinforced this commitment to affordability.”

For students receiving lottery-funded HOPE Scholarships, the scholarship pays for tuition. However, students and their families must themselves pay for mandatory fees.

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