FW: Columbus Ledger: Site for proposed Columbus data center confirmed
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Subject: Columbus Ledger: Site for proposed Columbus data center confirmed
Site for planned Columbus data center confirmed. Records show ownership changes
By Kala Hunter Updated February 24, 2026 5:34 PM
Tucked in the farthest northeast corner of Muscogee County, where Harris and Talbot counties converge are 865 acres of trees and wildland. That’s equivalent to about 75 Synovus Park baseball stadiums in Columbus. This is where a proposed four-building hyperscale data center campus is slated to be built, according to Muscogee County records and Choose Columbus CEO Missy Kendrick.
Since 2006 the acres of forest in Upatoi, just west of Midland, has been owned privately by Maria Teresa Amos Frith. She is listed as a secretary of the Amos Family Foundation (which also is called the John Beverly Amos & Elena Diaz-Verson Amos Foundation Inc.) in the ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer. The Daniel P. Amos Family Foundation is based in Columbus and serves charitable organizations that glorify God and Lord Jesus Christ.
On Nov. 4, 2025, the Amos foundation sold the land to Rodgers Upatoi Holdings LLC for $4.2 million. The LLC is was formed less than a week before the deal, according to the Secretary of State website. The agent of Rodgers Upatoi Holdings LLC, John Rodgers, owns a metal fabrication company in Fortson. The portfolio on the Rodgers Metal Craft company website shows buildings that mirror data center warehouses.
On Dec. 23, 2025, Rodgers Upatoi Holdings LLC granted the 865 acres to “Muscogee Property 1 LLC” for $0., according to property records. Today the Columbus Consolidated Government records show “NANA FAMILY LLLP” as the owner of the parcel. Kendrick has not confirmed whether Muscogee Property 1 LLC and NANA FAMILY is associated with Habitat Partners, which she said is the current property owner. Habitat Partners is a land development acquisition group based in Brooks, Georgia.
The NANA Family “dissolved and canceled” business operation Nov. 13, 2025, according to the Georgia Secretary of State website. Two additional parcels are under the NANA Family near the large parcel, bringing the total acreage to about 875. To the north of the land is open space in Harris County, to the east are homes on the outskirts of Midland off McKee Road. U.S. 80/Macon Road is just south of the proposed development site.
To the east is Talbot County, where a recently acquired 9,000-acre Wildlife Management Area called Upatoi Ravines is run by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources. Between the Habitat Partners 865-acre parcel and the Upatoi Ravines is a natural gas facility called Talbot Energy, owned and operated by Flint Energy, an electric-municipal co-op under Oglethorpe Power. Flint Energies has not responded to the Ledger-Enquirer’s requests about whether this facility will power the planned $5.18 billion dollar Project Ruby data center.
Read more at: https://www.ledger-enquirer.com/news/business/article314817948.html#storylink=cpy