Where could a data center go in Glynn County?

Glynn County’s zoning ordinance (as amended September 17, 2026) allows data centers only as a special use in four districts: Limited, Basic and General Industrial, and Public. Each needs its own permit, with a Planning Commission hearing and Board of Commissioners approval, on a lot of at least 50 acres, with closed-loop or similar cooling to limit drinking-water use (Sec. 4.2, 4.6.4, 8.3.3). Data centers are not a listed use in any other district, so land elsewhere would need rezoning first.

• Could apply now: zoned LI, BI, GI or P.
• Would need rezoning: any other county district.
• Off limits: zoned Conservation Preservation or government land; mostly inside protected land (PAD-US); described as marsh; or a public airport.
• City of Brunswick: the city’s own zoning applies, not the county’s.

For each parcel, the share inside mapped wetland comes from the USFWS National Wetlands Inventory (estuarine and freshwater wetlands and ponds; open water is not counted). The flood share is the part inside FEMA’s 1%-annual-chance flood zones (A, AE, AO and VE), with the coastal VE part noted. The nearest high-voltage line is the straight-line distance to a mapped transmission line of 69 kV or more.

Sources: Glynn County GIS parcels and zoning; Glynn County Zoning Ordinance; USGS PAD-US 4.1 (protected areas); USFWS National Wetlands Inventory; FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer; HIFLD (transmission lines); Census TIGERweb (county line). Records retrieved October 27, 2026; the map refreshes from these sources weekly, and the “talked about” entries are edited by hand from public records and local discussion.

“Boots on the ground” shows while an item has mentions in the last 14 days: news stories found through Google News and The Current that name the item, plus posts in local Facebook groups, which are counted by hand (no names or quotes are kept). A count is a measure of attention, not of what is true.

Limits: the parcel layer’s zoning can lag recent decisions; PAD-US misses some private conservation easements; wetland and flood maps are screening tools, not surveys; smaller neighbouring parcels could be combined to reach 50 acres; and water, sewer and power capacity matter as much as zoning. Not legal advice.