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Data Centers Georgia: A competitive advantage for Data Centers Critical Mass of Metro Atlanta Georgia Power’s award-winning Economic Our services include: Data Centers Development team has provided site • Access to our statewide site and building Bartow Cherokee Forsyth Halllocation services to industrial and corporate 985 Jackson real estate database and search tools 575 decision-makers for 90 years. Since 2005, Barrow • Electric infrastructure evaluation and 400 our team of data center specialists has Gwinnett assisted with data center projects that consultation on electric service methods Paulding Cobb 285 represent combined power loads in excess • Preliminary engineering evaluation and 85 75 of 400 MW. All services are provided at site layout services Wal tonno cost and are treated with the highest DeKalb • Liaison with entities that administer Fulton level of confidentiality throughout the 20 incentives Douglas site selection process and the life of the Rockdale facility’s operation. For projects related • Coordination of site tours 675 Clayton N ewtonto managed services and co-location Henry Carroll FayetteSources: Esri, HERE, Garmin, FAO, NOAA, USGS, © OpenStreetMap contributors, and the GIS User Communityoperations, Georgia Power also provides Coweta Co-location and wholesale facilities facility marketing assistance. Critical mass of enterprise and Internet data center locations Source: Georgia Power Community and Economic Development, 2020 Electricity in Georgia, a data center location advantage Electricity pricing in Georgia is below the Georgia Power Generation by Fuel Type, 2020 Why is metro Atlanta home to national average and highly competitive 3% 3%3% more than 60 major co-locations with other major data center markets. Natural Gas/Oil and enterprise data centers for Coal Additionally, Georgia Power’s generation leading global companies? 22% Nuclear fuel mix offers customers a variety of 50% Renewables • Highly reliable power infrastructure options including increasing availability Other and competitive electric rates of carbon-free energy purchase. 19% Hydro • Aggressive transition to carbon-free electricity portfolio Atlanta Industrial Electricity Prices Below National Average • Access to bandwidth and fiber in Cents per kWh • Sales tax exemptions for qualified AtlantaAtlanta Georgia Power 5.68 high tech data center investments Salt Lake City PacifiCorp 5.85 • Favorable business climate Dallas TXU Energy Retail 5.90 • Low risk of business disruption No rth ern Virginia Virginia Electric & Power 6.42 Ch icago Commonwealth Edison 6.90 • Availability of technical talent Las Vegas Nevada Power 7.77 • Accessibility San Anto nio City of San Antonio - TX 7.99 Los Angeles Los Angeles Department of Water & Power 16.28 Result: low total cost New York Consolidated Edison - NY 16.72 of ownership Boston Massachusetts Electric 17.11 San Francis co Pacific Gas & Electric 17.75 Source: EIA 2019 Data, Average Price of Electricity to Ultimate Customers by End-Use Sector and Provider Georgia Power Community & Economic Development – Your Partner In Business © Georgia Power, November 2020 1 Partner with Georgia Power for your data center location. About Georgia Power A Southeast Leader in Renewable Energy Initiatives Georgia Power is the state’s largest Georgia Power is aggressively expanding its carbon-free energy portfolio. The company’s utility with a gross facilities investment acquisition of solar energy resources and the construction of two new nuclear units of $43 billion. The company serves 2.66 at Plant Vogtle are major transition strategy components and reflect Georgia Power’s million customers in Georgia, including commitment net-zero emissions by 2050. Currently, 29% of Georgia Power’s generating 323,000 businesses and industries. capacity is carbon-free and includes solar, nuclear, wind, biomass and hydro. By 2025, 44% of the company’s generating capacity will be carbon-free. Georgia Power is a unit of Southern Company, which owns generating Solar Power • Nuclear generation represents 10% of capacity of 42,000 megawatts (MW) • Since 2013, Georgia Power has increased the company’s current portfolio and provides electricity and gas to solar capacity by 700% 9 million customers across the U.S. • By 2025, nuclear will represent 12% of Reserve margins and planned capacity • By 2022, Georgia Power will add another the generating capacity mix additions ensure that the supply will 2,200 solar MW, bringing the solar continue to meet the growing needs of portion of the portfolio to 4,600 MW customers. • By 2025, solar will represent 20% of the Other Carbon-Free company’s capacity mix Important to Data Centers: Generating Options • Georgia Power-developed programs Nuclear Power Biomass: Over 330 MW online and and services meet the unique needs • Currently constructing nation’s first new under contract for qualified of data center operators, including nuclear units in more than 30 years facilities programs for purchase of carbon- • Units 3 and 4 to be completed by free electricity Wind:250 MW of purchased wind 4th quarter 2021 and 4th quarter 2022 energy through 20-year Power • Variety of pricing options including respectively Real Time pricing Purchase Agreements, energy to • Once completed, new units along with power more than 50,000 homes. • High-density load systems that units 1 and 2 will supply power to 1 ensure reliable and redundant million homes and businesses Hydro: 1,088 MWof hydro electricity distribution • Assets will remain operational for 60 to generation, enough energy to • Unsurpassed customer service 80 years and will place downward power more than 257,000 homes including a dedicated account pressure on rates for all customers manager for large use customers Georgia Power’s Simple Georgia Power’s Customer Choice of Electricity Provider Solar Program Renewable Supply Procurement in Georgia (CRSP) Program By participating Georgia Power’s Simple Companies constructing new data Solar Program, customers can support Georgia Power’s CRSP Program allows center facilities with an initial the growth of solar energy while commercial and industrial (C&I) customers connected electrical load of 900 reducing their electric-based carbon to support their sustainability initiatives. kilowatts (kW) or greater may footprint. Commercial and industrial Georgia Power will procure 1,000 have the opportunity to select the customers who purchase at least 50,000 megawatts of additional renewable electricity provider that best suits kWhs of RECs per month are eligible to generation through power purchase their needs. This is a one-time participate in the Large Volume option agreements (PPAs) for subscription by decision by the customer. with a reduced cost per kwh. C&I customers. Georgia Power will retire the Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) Please see the following site for more on behalf of participating customers details on Large Volume pricing: generated by the CRSP Portfolio. For www.georgiapower.com/simplesolar additional information about participating in the CRSP Program, please see the following site for more details: www.georgiapower.com/CRSP 2 Georgia Power Community & Economic Development – Your Partner In Business © Georgia Power, November 2020 Metro Atlanta has a heavily-concentrated telecommunications infrastructure. Atlanta is the major interconnection point on the Eastern seaboard between New York Fiber Companies and Miami and on to South America. Metro Atlanta ranks in the top five U.S. markets for Operating Metropolitan and total bandwidth and fiber access. Two of the country’s largest fiber routes – North/South Long-Haul Networks that Connect and East/West – cross in metro Atlanta. to Metro Atlanta The Southeast’s largest concentration of telecommunications companies sits at the heart American Tower of Downtown Atlanta. AT&T Cogent Comcast Atlanta: A Major IP Node on All Major Providers’ Networks Cox Communications Atlanta is an important location for major IP network providers. Most major North Crown Castle American and global fiber network carriers have IP peering nodes in Atlanta. FiberLight Fusion Atlanta: A major IP node on all major provider’s network map Georgia Public Web Google Hamilton Relay Lumen OneRing Networks Orange Business Services Southern Telecom Spectrum Enterprise T-Mobile Unite Private Networks Uniti Fiber Windstream WOW! Business Yomura Source: Company websites and research by Georgia Power Community & Economic Development, 2020 Where Atlanta Leads Atlanta’s thriving technology industries are heavily dependent on data center services. Atlanta is a leader in: IoT Mobility Atlanta is ranked as the #3 Healthcare IT With more than 200 Artificial Intelligence From textile city for making the most of emerging healthcare IT companies, Atlanta is manufacturing to healthcare delivery, smart city and IoT technologies. recognized as a leader in this specialized Atlanta AI companies are making huge industry. impacts on industry. Research at Georgia Fintech Atlanta is the nation’s Tech and the region’s deep talent pool of preeminent financial transaction center Cybersecurity Georgia is home to more data scientists and software engineers with companies in the region processing than 250 cybersecurity companies. The are keys to AI success in Atlanta. more than 70 percent of all U.S. card- U.S. Army’s Cyber Security Command based transactions. Headquarters is located at Fort Gordon Autonomous Vehicles Atlanta in Augusta. companies like GM, Verizon Telematics Logistics As technology transforms and Capgemini