Residents of Twiggs County listen to Altamaha Riverkeeper Fletcher Sams during a meeting aimed at organizing resistance to a proposed data center in the rural county. Developers Eaglerock Partners promise the AI datacenter drawing as much power as the cities of Augusta and Macon combined would double the local tax revenue.

Residents of Twiggs County listen to Altamaha Riverkeeper Fletcher Sams during a meeting aimed at organizing resistance to a proposed data center in the rural county. Developers Eaglerock Partners promise the AI datacenter drawing as much power as the cities of Augusta and Macon combined would double the local tax revenue.

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Officials in Twiggs County will vote Thursday on whether to rezone timber company land for a proposed data center.

After an unusually cool August, Georgia’s September temperatures are back to normal, but conditions are very dry, raising concerns for peanut farmers.

And Democratic gubernatorial candidate Geoff Duncan, a former Republican lieutenant governor, made his first campaign appearance Wednesday.

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