Data Centers : A competitive advantage for Data Centers

Critical Mass of Metro 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 , 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 along with Georgia Tech traditional logistics into a high-tech Digital Media and Entertainment are providing ground-breaking research industry, Atlanta is second only to Georgia was recently named the #2 in this field. New York City in digital supply chain feature film location in the world, management. behind the country of Canada.

For more information on Atlanta’s technology industries: https://www.selectgeorgia.com/discover-georgia/industries/ information-technology/

Georgia Power Community & Economic Development – Your Partner In Business © Georgia Power, November 2020 3 Georgia’s favorable business climate keeps data center operations competitive.

FORTUNE 500 Companies Georgia has a long history of being business-friendly and its tax structure helps make the Headquartered in Georgia state one of the most cost competitive in the country. by Georgia Revenue Rank 2019 Fortune Rank Incentives for Qualified High To qualify for the additional equipment 1 Home Depot 26 Tech Data Centers exemption, a company must have an investment budget plan over 7 consecutive 2 43 • Investment of $15 million or more years that meets investment thresholds 3 68 in a calendar year in computer that are dependent on the population of hardware or software qualifies for 4 Coca-Cola 88 the county where the investment is made. sales and use tax exemption 5 Aflac* 146 Investment requirements range from a • Custom software is not subject to 6 Southern 153 minimum of $100 million in less populated sales and use tax counties to a minimum of $250 million in 7 Genuine Parts 171 • Investment in additional equipment more populated counties. The investment 8 WestRock 177 including materials, components, threshold must be met within seven years. 9 PulteGroup 309 machinery, hardware, software, 10 Newell Brands 316 or equipment, including but not limited to emergency backup Lower Costs Attract Companies 11 Mohawk Industries* 321 generators, air handling units, 12 AGCO 350 cooling towers, energy storage The cost of living and cost of business 13 412 or energy efficiency technology, are favorable in metro Atlanta, generally falling well below the U.S. average, 14 Asbury Automotive 428 switches, power distribution units, Group switching gear, peripheral computer which is unusual for such a large metropolitan area. 15 NCR 439 devices, routers, batteries, wiring, cabling, or conduit are exempt form 16 Intercontinental 459 Exchange sales and use tax 17 Graphic Packaging 477 Holding 18 HD Supply Holdings 478

*Headquarted outside metro Atlanta Source: FORTUNE magazine, May 2020 Atlanta’s cost of doing Atlanta construction costs lower business is lower than U.S. average Cost of Doing Business Index Construction Cost Comparison, Select Cities

Area Development San Anto nio 89 San Anto nio 0.83 “Top State for Doing Business” Las Vegas 91 Dallas 0.85 AtlantaAtlanta 92 Ph oenix 0.88 1. Georgia Dallas 96 AtlantaAtlanta 0.88 2. Tennessee Ch icago 99 Wash ington D.C. 0.95 3. Ph oenix 102 Las Vegas 1.04 4. Texas Wash ington D.C. 113 Los Angeles 1.13 5. North Carolina Los Angeles 116 Boston 1.15 Source: Area Development Magazine, 3Q 2020 Boston 127 Ch icago 1.21

New York 156 San Francis co 1.29 San Francis co 174 New York 1.35

Source: Moody’s Economy.com State Cost of Doing Business Source: RS Means Square Foot Costs, Construction Index, June 2019 (2017 data). Costs Location Factors, 2020 (Commercial Rates). Note: Construction costs are based on a national average for materials and installation. To adjust these costs to a specific location, multiply the base cost by the factor for that city.

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Georgia is low risk for natural disasters.

Risk Avoidance – Earthquakes QTS expanding metro Atlanta data center campus Natural disaster risks, including risks of seismic-related weather impacts, are low in Georgia. There are no active fault lines in the area. ”We are excited to add incremental, sellable capacity in a strategic market where QTS is already the market United States Seismic Hazard Map leader supporting over 500 customers Peak Horizontal Acceleration (% gravity) with 2% Probability of Exceedance in 50 years between our two existing sites. Witnessing the immense development and growth of the community WA surrounding our downtown Atlanta ME MT ND data center site over the past decade

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Enormous $2.5 billion data campus planned for metro Atlanta Peak Ground Ground Acceleration Acceleration - % of Gravity – % Intervals Gravity Intervals 0 - 2 9 - 11 18 - 20 41 - 50 81 - 120 Las Vegas-based Switch said Thursday 3 - 5 12 - 14 21 - 30 51 - 60 121 - 160 it will develop a more than 1 million- 6 - 8 15 - 17 31 - 40 61 - 80 161 - 200 square-foot campus it calls “The Keep” that will be among the most advanced Source: U.S. Geological Survey National Seismic Hazard Mapping Project, US Geological Survey Earthquake Hazards Program in the nation and the fourth in what it calls its “Prime” campuses in the U.S.

“The new facility will give Switch’s more than 700 clients redundant “Tier IV Gold” data center facilities on the East A Sampling of Managed Services & Colocation Data Centers in Georgia Coast, in an area that is protected from natural disasters such as hurricanes.

• Digital Realty Trust (DR) (3 locations) • QTS (2 locations) The complex will be 100 percent • Equinix • Stack powered by renewable energy sources, • Flexential (2 locations) • Sungard (3 locations) and the company is working with Georgia Power to attain that goal.” • Lumen (8 locations) • Switch

Source: Business Wise Company Database, 2020 Adam Kramer, Executive Vice President of Strategy, Switch

Source: Atlanta Journal Constitution, 05.25.2017

Georgia Power Community & Economic Development – Your Partner In Business © Georgia Power, November 2020 5 Atlanta is a technology hub with more than 99,000 IT professionals.

Atlanta’s Top Technology Selected IT Occupations in Metro Atlanta

Employers Median Description 2020 Jobs Hourly Earnings Company Employment Software Developers 38,978 $50.43 1 AT&T 15,000 Computer Systems Analysts 15,631 $42.78 2 United Parcel Service 14,600 Computer and Information Systems Managers 12,374 $69.71 3 8,900 Network and Computer Systems Administrators 7,195 $41.80 4 Turner Broadcasting 6,000 Computer Network Support Specialists 5,458 $33.27 5 Fiserv Inc. 4,000 Computer Network Architects 4,735 $55.51 6 Verizon Wireless 3,750 Database Administrators and Architects 4,023 $48.48 7 NCR Corp. 3,700 Information Security Analysts 3,487 $47.78 8 EY 3,700 Computer Programmers 3,374 $42.77 9 Capgemini 3,300 10 Automatic Data Processing Inc. 3,000 Web Developers and Digital Interface Designers 2,730 $42.60 11 Inc. 2,700 Computer Hardware Engineers 1,421 $51.52 12 DeLoitte LLP 2,600 99,406 $48.80 13 Siemens 2,400 Source: EMSI, 2020.4 Coca-Cola Global Information 14 2,000 Technology 15 InComm 2,000 16 LexisNexis 1,900 Talent Acquisition Local Expertise in Specialized 17 Macy's Systems and Technology 1,600 Data Center Technology 18 PwC 1,600 While IT talent is abundant in metro Atlanta, A number of metro Atlanta universities 19 VMwareAirWatch LLC 1,500 salaries tend to be moderate, compared with 20 Manhattan Associates Inc. 1,500 other metropolitan markets due, in part, to offer the gold standard certification 21 Accenture Plc 1,400 cost of living below the national average. for data centers – the Certification 22 Honeywell International 1,400 in Cyber Defense Education, Cyber General Motors Innovation Median Combined IT Wage Defense Research and Information 23 1,300 Center (Hourly Earnings) Assurance as certified by the National 24 KPMG LLP 1,300 Las Vegas $42.71 Security Agency and the Department 25 Scientific Games Corp. 1,200 San Anto nio of Homeland Security. Six universities, 26 Sage Software 1,200 $45.11 27 Infosys 1,200 Salt Lake $45.53 Georgia Southern University - 28 Comcast 1,200 Ph oenix $45.87 Armstrong Campus, Augusta Ch icago $47.61 University, Columbus State University, Source: Business Wise 2020 and Atlanta Business Chronicle Book of Lists, December 2019 AtlantaAtlanta $48.80 Georgia Institute of Technology, Dallas $49.91 Kennesaw State University, and Los Angeles $53.71 the University of North Georgia Google Reaches 100% Boston $54.24 are National Centers of Academic Sustainability Goal in Just 7 Years Wash ington DC $54.80 Excellence in either of these fields. “By pioneering new energy purchasing New York $56.35 Additionally, cyber security centers models that others can follow, we’ve San Francis co $66.03 located across the state provide helped drive wide-scale adoption of San Jo se $68.40 leading-edge research capabilities for local and global data center clean energy. For example, we joined Source: EMSI, 2020 forces with Walmart, Target, and operations. Johnson & Johnson in Georgia to help build a state-approved program that Cyber Security Centers Across Georgia allows companies to buy renewable energy directly through the state’s School Center largest utility. The program is the first Augusta University Cyber Institute, School of Cyber and Computer Science of its kind in Georgia and has paved Augusta University Georgia Cyber Center the way for construction of two solar Columbus State University TSYS Center for Cyber Security, TSYS School of Computer Science energy projects with a total capacity Georgia Institute of Technology Information Security Center of 177 megawatts (MW).” Kennesaw State University Institute for Cyber Security and Workforce Development

Source: Google Environmental Report, 2019 Sources: EMSI, 2020 and University System of Georgia, 2020

6 Georgia Power Community & Economic Development – Your Partner In Business © Georgia Power, November 2020 Georgia universities provide technical resources and talent for the future.

IT-Related Higher Education Number of Graduates in Computer and Information Sciences Disciplines Across the state of Georgia, nearly 39,925 over the Last 5 years 40,000 Computer and Information Georgia College and University Completions over the last 5 years in Sciences degrees or certificates were Las Vegas 2,932 Computer and Information Sciences awarded in 2019, and more than San Anto nio 5,344 Disciplines 400,000 students are enrolled in state San Jo se 5,755 colleges and universities that San Francis co 12,743 offer IT programs. Salt Lake City 16,839 1,930 A technical certificate in Mission-Critical Dallas 22,260 Georgia College and University Facilities Management is offered AtlantaAtlanta 23,595 Completions over the last 5 years in Boston 23,670 Computer Engineering and Computer through the technical college system. Engineering Technologies Ch icagp 31,888

Ph oenix 32,395 Source: IPEDS, EMSI, 2019 Georgia Tech: Leading the Way in Los Angeles 33,386 High-Performance Computing Wash ington DC 49,385 The Georgia Institute of Technology New York 55,709 “Atlanta is a high-demand colocation recently opened Coda, the development Source: Completions 2015 - 2019 IPEDS, EMSI market and a growing hub for of 750,000 square feet of office healthcare, technology, and large space, research centers, a 80,000 enterprises.” square-foot data center and a high- performance computing center. Half “The Business Analytics Center at of the development is geared to major Georgia Tech brings together talented Greg Friedman, Vice-President, zColo technology companies and startups. students, world-class interdisciplinary Source: “Zayo’s zColo Enters Atlanta Market With AtlantaNAP Acquisition,” DataCenterKnowledge.com, Source: ‘Tech Square’s Second Phase to be called Coda,’ faculty to educate and exchange best 07.02.2014 Atlanta-Journal Constitution, April 20, 2016 practices for applying analytics to solve business problems.”

Workforce Pipeline Sri Narasimhan, Senior Associate Dean, Through Georgia’s one-of-a-kind HOPE Georgia Institute of Technology Kennesaw State offers program, scholarships are available for Source: www.scheller.gatech.edu/centers-initiatives/ undergraduate and graduate both bachelor's and technical certificate business-analytics-center/ degrees in Cyber Security programs, regardless of financial need. KSU’s Bachelor of Science in Cybersecurity leverages faculty capabilities in the school’s business, information technology and Schools in Georgia Granting the Most Computer and Information Sciences criminal justice programs to deliver Completions, 2019 a technically-focused, security- Number of Computer related degree. Total and Information Science School City Enrollment Grads/Certificates 2019 The Graduate program is also a Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta 36,000 1,973 multidisciplinary approach balancing Kennesaw State University Kennesaw 41,000 853 managerial and technical aspects of

Georgia State University Atlanta 54,000 647 cyber security.

Gwinnett Technical College Metro Atlanta Campuses 9,000 600 Source: Kennesaw State University Website Chattahoochee Technical College Metro Atlanta Campuses 10,000 479

Sources: IPEDS and school websites, 2019

Georgia Power Community & Economic Development – Your Partner In Business © Georgia Power, November 2020 7 Atlanta offers exceptional accessibility to domestic and international destinations.

World’s Most Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport offers unsurpassed non-stop access to 163 domestic and 78 international destinations. The airport is also the most traveled in Efficient Airport the world. Atlanta is home to the world’s second largest air carrier, Delta Air Lines. (2020)

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