Site for planned Columbus data center confirmed. Records show ownership changes
Editors note: After this article originally was published Feb. 24, the Ledger-Enquirer was told property records cited in the story contain incorrect information. This corrected version of the article clarifies when Maria Teresa Amos Frith bought the land, her connection to Amos family foundations and to whom she sold the land.
Tucked in the farthest northeast corner of Muscogee County, where Harris and Talbot counties converge are 865 acres of trees and wildland. That’s equivalent to about 75 Synovus Park baseball stadiums in Columbus.
This is where a proposed four-building hyperscale data center campus is slated to be built, according to Muscogee County records and Choose Columbus CEO Missy Kendrick.
County records show the 865 acres of forest and pasture in Upatoi, just west of Midland, have been owned by Maria Teresa Amos Frith since 2006. But Frith told the Ledger-Enquirer she has owned the land since 1993.. Frith also said the total land she sold to Habitat Real Estate Partners is 987.6 acres, which the county records do not show.
Despite being listed as secretary of the Amos Family Foundation (which also is called the John Beverly Amos & Elena Diaz-Verson Amos Foundation Inc.) in the ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer, Frith said the foundation has no involvement and nothing to do with the sale.
Frith also said Aflac CEO Dan Amos, her cousin, and the Daniel P. Amos Family Foundation, also weren’t involved with the land or the sale.
Now 71 and retired, Frith said the Amos Family Foundation is an endowment created by her parents.
County records also show Frith sold the land to Rodgers Upatoi Holdings LLC for $4.2 million on Nov. 4, 2025. Frith told the Ledger-Enquirer, this is not true. Frith said she sold directly to the current owners, Habitat Real Estate Partners.
Rodgers Upatoi Holdings LLC was formed less than a week before the deal, according to the Secretary of State website. The agent of Rodgers Upatoi Holdings LLC, John Rodgers, owns a metal fabrication company in Fortson. The portfolio on the Rodgers Metal Craft company website shows buildings that mirror data center warehouses.
On Dec. 23, 2025, Rodgers Upatoi Holdings LLC granted the 865 acres to “Muscogee Property 1 LLC” for $0., according to property records. Today the Columbus Consolidated Government records show “NANA FAMILY LLLP” as the owner of the parcel.
Kendrick has not confirmed whether Muscogee Property 1 LLC and NANA FAMILY is associated with Habitat Real Estate Partners, which she said is the current property owner. Habitat Real Estate Partners is a land development acquisition group based in Brooks, Georgia.
The NANA Family “dissolved and canceled” business operation Nov. 13, 2025, according to the Georgia Secretary of State website. Friith told the Ledger-Enquirer she created NANA family LLLP as a way to help with the taxes.
Two additional parcels are under the NANA Family near the large parcel, bringing the total acreage to about 875. To the north of the land is open space in Harris County, to the east are homes on the outskirts of Midland off McKee Road. U.S. 80/Macon Road is just south of the proposed development site.
To the east is Talbot County, where a recently acquired 9,000-acre Wildlife Management Area called Upatoi Ravines is run by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.
Between the Habitat Real Estate Partners 987.6-acre parcel and the Upatoi Ravines is a natural gas facility called Talbot Energy, owned and operated by Flint Energy, an electric-municipal co-op under Oglethorpe Power. Flint Energies has not responded to the Ledger-Enquirer’s requests about whether this facility will power the planned $5.18 billion dollar Project Ruby data center.
This story was originally published February 24, 2026 at 11:41 AM.
