Georgia — Metro Atlanta (Southern Co.)

Georgia Power's prospective large-load pipeline — ~80% data centers — ballooned to ~69 GW (part of a ~75 GW Southern-wide pipeline). As of Q1 2026 earnings ~11 GW now sits under executed contracts (28 large-load projects), up from ~1.9 GW a year earlier, even as PSC staff warn data centers are "underperforming expectations" on materialization. In December 2025 the PSC approved 9,885 MW of new resources (~two-thirds gas, rest BESS/renewables) to serve it. Vogtle's new nuclear units provide rare carbon-free baseload in a vertically-integrated, non-ISO market — so the slice that does get built realizes faster than the ISO megamarkets.