DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — Shadowbox Studios will ask DeKalb County’s Zoning Board of Appeals on Sept. 9 to overturn a staff decision denying its bid to build a data center on 155 acres at 3600 International Park Drive in south DeKalb County. The land, once eyed for an expansion of Shadowbox’s film studio, sits next to the company’s existing nine sound stages and across the street from the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center. The meeting will be held at 1 p.m. via Zoom. Those using a telephone can call 888-270-9936 and use conference code 691303. The agenda says the public can email comments by Sept. 3 to the DeKalb County Department of Planning and Sustainability at plansustain@dekalbcountyga.gov. Shadowbox is asking the ZBA to reverse the planning department’s June 12 decision denying its application to change its land disturbance permit from film studio use to data center use. The county denied the application because the board of commissioners approved a temporary ban on new data center development last year. In its brief to the ZBA, Shadowbox makes much of the same argument it made in a lawsuit filed last month asking a judge to declare the county’s moratorium illegal. The company says that before the moratorium took effect, county officials sent it three written confirmations — in June 2023, April 2024 and February 2025 — stating that data centers were allowed on the property. Based on those confirmations, Shadowbox says it has spent nearly $37 million on the project.…
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