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Georgia maximizes data center growth, protects consumers and freezes rates
8+ hour, 40+ min ago (678+ words) The rapid growth of artificial intelligence and cloud computing is driving an unprecedented expansion of data centers across the United States. These facilities power everything from online banking and healthcare systems to national defense networks and the artificial intelligence technologies…...
Companies tied to data centers lease record amount of Atlanta warehouse space
6+ day, 2+ hour ago (800+ words) Artificial intelligence and the data center boom are influencing many things across Georgia, ranging from politics and technology to debates over energy, water consumption and land use. But there’s something else the sector is gobbling up — space in warehouses across…...
Fulton County takes aim at data center tax breaks
1+ week, 4+ day ago (823+ words) Fulton County leaders are urging local boards that recruit businesses to stop granting tax breaks and other incentives for data centers, which continue to garner controversy across metro Atlanta. The Fulton County Commission unanimously voted Wednesday to adopt a resolution…...
Data center expansion in Georgia has implications for consumers’ power bills
2+ week, 2+ day ago (676+ words) For more than a year, commissioners on the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) have been repeating a reassuring claim: they’ve put rules in place to shield Georgia Power’s residential customers from the soaring costs of grid expansion driven by the…...
Data centers raise electric prices and lower reliability, but not in Georgia
2+ week, 3+ day ago (624+ words) If you’re reading the headlines, you may have noticed a seemingly nationwide crisis — the increased use of artificial intelligence and cloud storage by all of us is driving an electricity demand surge unlike anything in recent memory. Companies are racing…...
OpenAI’s $20B data center dominated Georgia headlines. But it wasn’t alone.
2+ week, 6+ day ago (1333+ words) It’s hard to imagine a billion-dollar project getting overshadowed, let alone two. But that was before the data center boom came to Georgia, upending development norms. OpenAI last week made national headlines by announcing a $20 billion data center complex near…...
Atlanta data center tabled, but developer remains ‘committed’ to vision
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (820+ words) A Texas data center developer said it is working to shore up support for its controversial proposal near Atlanta’s West End MARTA station after a City Council committee put the proposal in limbo. The council’s Zoning Committee voted 6-1 on Monday…...
Georgia agency orders data center’s ‘pop-up’ power plant to halt construction
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (811+ words) The first “pop-up” power plant to serve a Georgia data center has been ordered to stop construction and cited for a breach of state law by environmental officials, who say the company behind the project has built its power generators…...
Georgia’s first data center ‘pop-up’ power plant is breaking rules, groups say
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1053+ words) COVINGTON — Some people dream of living off the grid, controlling their own supply of electricity. A data center racing to open about 40 miles east of downtown Atlanta plans to do just that, assembling natural gas-powered generators on-site to provide electricity…...
Readers write
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (404+ words) No upside to having data centers in DeKalb Last week, the DeKalb County Commission voted unanimously to defeat legislation regulating data centers. What a disappointment. Evidence shows that data centers pollute the environment and cause astronomical increases in the power…...