Project Pegasus developers scale back size, water use

Coweta residents attend the community meeting for the Project Pegasus data center. Photo by Jeffrey Cullen-Dean After publication of the Development of Regional Impact, or DRI, report for the Project Pegasus data center, developers said details for the site have been revised.According to the data center’s DRI, its footprint would be 2.95 million square feet. However, Ben Marten, a public affairs representative for the developers, said the total building area will be 2.41 million square feet.The site will consist of six data centers, each about 400,200 square feet, along with an 8,000-square-foot security building and a 1,600-square-foot auxiliary utility building.The data center’s DRI stated it would use about 77,000 gallons of water and produce 65,000 gallons of sewage each day.However, Marten said the data center will use 54,000 gallons of water each day, or 9,000 gallons per building, and the entire site will produce 39,000 gallons of sewage each day.

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