Walton County, GA Data Centers & Crypto Mining: Data Center Zoning & Siting (2026)

Land Development Ordinance Section 4-1-230 and Section 4-1-240 both name data centers among the intended uses when Walton County created its Mixed Use Business Park and Stanton Springs Business Park districts, describing an environment well suited to manufacturing, research, development, professional offices, laboratories, biomedical, pharmaceuticals, data centers, and related commercial, warehousing, and industrial uses. S. Highway 278. Either district requires the underlying large-tract conditions: MUBP needs a single-entity development of at least one hundred acres, while Stanton Springs requires at least one thousand acres spanning two contiguous counties.

A data center sited in Stanton Springs must meet the district's Standards of Development: a fifty-foot minimum lot frontage, a fifty-foot front setback, twenty-foot side and rear setbacks, a maximum impervious surface of seventy-five percent, and a maximum building height of seventy-five feet. Heavy industrial uses that would create dust, odor, air pollution, water pollution, or noise remain barred from both districts even though data centers themselves are welcomed as part of the tax-base and job-creation purpose written into both sections.