Evans selected as Design-Build partner on DC BLOX’s ATL1 and ATL2 Data Center Campuses

Evans Advanced Technology is leading efforts to deliver two greenfield Hyperscale data center campuses in Douglasville and Conyers, Georgia

ATLANTA, GA (January 29, 2024) – Evans has recently broken ground on a new data center campus in Douglasville after a year of master planning, entitlement, design, and permitting efforts. The team is currently well into a similar process to break ground on a second site in Conyers early this summer. Both new data center campuses for DC BLOX, a leading provider of connected data centers and dark fiber solutions across the Southeast, will directly connect to their dark fiber network.

In October DC BLOX announced the acquisition of 55 acres in Douglasville to develop a 180MW data center campus known as ATL-West (ATL1). This two-story campus will connect to the Myrtle Beach Cable Landing Station (CLS) as well as feature 12 – 10MW data halls totaling 750K sf. Because of Evans early efforts in master planning with DC BLOX they were able to lock in power commitments, develop an industry leading plan of record, and entitle this amazing piece of land so that power would be available immediately. 

Then, to close out 2023, DC BLOX released the news that ATL East (ATL2) was set to be built on 72 acres in Conyers. To start the project, a 216MW power commitment is in hand from Georgia Power with a tenant confirmed for the first phase. Part of the project includes building a dark fiber ring around the Atlanta MSA, providing significant new fiber capacity for campus tenants and resilient connection to DC BLOX’s Atlanta to Myrtle Beach CLS dark fiber route.

These back-to-back client announcements on two new Atlanta Hyperscale assets is a result of teamwork, trust, and tenacity. Evans has partnered with the best-in-class design partners for the Design-Build team and is currently in procurement of both projects. With the accelerating scale of digital communications and the need for richer user experiences in accessing content, the demand for data center capacity across the region is astounding. Atlanta alone has risen to a Tier 1 data center market and is now tied for 5^th in total data center demand. As such, the Atlanta build program is a gamechanger for both DC BLOX and Evans.

By solving challenges at a higher and more integrated level, procuring long lead items, and coordinating the technical nuances of compliant facilities, Evans’ Advanced Technology Team is paving the way for DC BLOX to expand their data center portfolio and address the growing needs of hyperscale and AI/ML platform and application provider tenants in Atlanta.