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Atlanta has 16 data center projects on our tracker and 19 commissioning agents

Two DC BLOX campuses are under construction, and six more projects are approved but not yet building.

Czarina Tabayoyong, founder of Critical Path Hiring

Czarina Tabayoyong

Founder & Principal Recruiter · Published November 9, 2026

Atlanta has 16 data center projects on our tracker and 19 commissioning agents

Atlanta has more data center projects on our tracker than any of the nine metros we track: 16, as of our October 29, 2026 review. Two are under construction, both DC BLOX campuses, and six are approved but not yet building. On November 4, 2026, 19 people in the Atlanta Metropolitan Area held the current title commissioning agent on LinkedIn, the third most of the nine metros after Dallas-Fort Worth and Northern Virginia.

Figures

FigureAtlanta
Data center projects we track (tracker reviewed October 29, 2026)16
Under construction2 (DC BLOX Atlanta West, DC BLOX Atlanta East)
Approved, not yet building6
Proposed2 (Microsoft Project Firecracker, Microsoft ATL50)
Stalled or cancelled6
Commissioning agent, engineer or technician titles (November 4, 2026)176
Of those, commissioning agents19
Controls and BMS technician titles141
IBEW Local 613 electrician base rate$38.65 an hour plus $12.75 fringes

The approved projects are the Wallace Jackson campus near Griffin, Rumble Technology Park, the Social Circle site, the Strouds Creek campus, the DataBank Cartersville campus and QTS ATL2 East in Fayetteville. For comparison, Phoenix has 15 projects on our tracker and Dallas-Fort Worth has 14.

Hiring

DC BLOX Atlanta West in Lithia Springs is the one Atlanta site with a delivery date we can place by quarter. Building B targets early 2028, which puts it in its commissioning window from Q3 2027 to Q1 2028. The two 40 MW phases of Building A carry year-only targets of 2026 and 2027.

An owner or contractor on one of the six approved projects can start with the 157 local commissioning engineers and technicians. Ask which DC BLOX buildings they tested on and at what level.

Controls and BMS technicians are the second pool. Atlanta has 141 people with those titles.

For a lead agent with Level 4 and 5 sign-off, start the search in Atlanta, where 19 people hold the title. Dallas-Fort Worth (34) and Northern Virginia (32) are the next places to recruit, with travel in the offer.

Method

Project stages come from public filings and news reports listed on the Atlanta tracker, reviewed October 29, 2026. Title counts are LinkedIn Sales Navigator searches by current job title in the Atlanta Metropolitan Area, read November 4, 2026, so people doing commissioning work under another title are missed. A site's commissioning window is its stated delivery quarter and the two quarters before it, from our commissioning collision study reviewed October 25, 2026. The electrician rate is from Davis-Bacon wage determination GA20260307 for Fulton County. Its electrician line excludes low voltage wiring.

Questions

Questions

How many commissioning agents are there in Atlanta?
Nineteen people in the Atlanta Metropolitan Area held the current title commissioning agent on LinkedIn on November 4, 2026. Another 157 held the title commissioning engineer or commissioning technician.
How many data centers are under construction in Atlanta?
We track 16 data center projects in the Atlanta area as of our October 29, 2026 review. Two are under construction, DC BLOX Atlanta West in Lithia Springs and DC BLOX Atlanta East in Conyers. Six are approved but not yet building.
Czarina Tabayoyong, founder of Critical Path Hiring

Czarina Tabayoyong

Founder and principal recruiter, Critical Path Hiring. Czarina recruits commissioning, MEP, power and critical facilities people for data center builds. She previously recruited cloud and data center architecture talent at AWS Professional Services, and PMO and project delivery talent for hyperscale data center campuses in Texas and Virginia.

More about Czarina · LinkedIn

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