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30 Georgia homes are being acquired via sale or eminent domain to expand power grid — one affected family member says it’s ‘for the data centers’
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My childhood home is being taken by Georgia Power — they’re going to bulldoze this entire property to the ground.
For the data centers.
All of this is for the data centers.”
Georgia Power isn’t exactly building the transmission line to connect a power plant directly to a data center, but AI data centers’ massive power demands have caused massive opposition to projects like this to appear nationwide.
(Image credit: Google Maps)The current administration has been pushing for AI data centers, believing that it needs all that infrastructure so it can win the “AI race” against China.