SOCIAL CIRCLE, Ga. - Faced with an influx of rezoning and related requests for proposed data centers – massive facilities that process, store, manage and distribute digital data – the Social Circle City Council unanimously enacted a 90-day moratorium on those requests at its Sept. 16 meeting. The data centers proposed for the two sets of properties are being pursued by 3Rivers Development, an Atlanta-based firm specializing in data centers, industrial storage and cold storage facilities. The company’s Carlton Walstad represented the project in front of the Social Circle Planning Commission, and on Sept. 16 in front of the Social Circle City Council. End users for data centers come routinely from among major technology companies such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta. Christi Studdard, who lives a short distance outside Social Circle, suggested before the moratorium vote that city officials appeared to be complicit in the data center issue.