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News Articles: data centers

A roller coaster is shown at Six Flags over Georgia on Oct. 12, 2026, in Austell, Ga. Photo by Emilie Megnien/ AP

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Georgia Today: Data centers consumption; Candidate debates; Six Flags death

On the October 13 edition: A man dies after being thrown from a roller coaster at Six Flags over the weekend; Democratic candidate for governor Keisha Lance Bottoms says she wants to fully expand Medicaid; And data centers need water to keep cool, but their thirst doesn’t stop there.

October 13, 2026
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By:
  • Peter Biello and
  • Miranda Hawkins
A pivot irrigator watered a Mitchell County field on the morning of August 24, 2026.

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  • Environment

Data centers do use lots and lots of water. But maybe not from where or how you think

People often worry about the water it takes to keep data centers cool. It takes far more water just to keep the power on. 

October 13, 2026
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
A pipeline is laid in the ground.

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  • Energy

500 miles of pipeline to serve data center demand faces legal battle

A report finds the pipelines will carry four times more methane gas than what utilities need.

October 06, 2026
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By:
  • Jillian Magtoto
A prototype of the Project Suncatcher satellite at the Planet Labs facility in San Francisco, California.

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  • Technology

Google launches Project Suncatcher, a step towards AI data centers in space

The fridge-size satellite with AI chips on board is part of Project Suncatcher, the company's moonshot effort to put AI data centers in space and harness solar energy.

October 02, 2026
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By:
  • John Ruwitch and
  • Geoff Brumfiel
A sign opposing a data center development project stands in a neighborhood on September 24, 2026 in Menomonie, Wisconsin.

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  • Politics

AI data centers: How much are ratepayers on the hook for?

Data centers consume large amounts of power and require upgrading infrastructure. But it's difficult to determine how much residential customers benefit and how much they actually pay for the benefit.

October 01, 2026
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By:
  • Scott Neuman
Dr. Jovanny Zabaleta, a researcher with the LSU LCMC Health Cancer Center, reviews findings on a monitor with a student. The school is part of a collaboration hub working to accelerate innovative cancer treatments and working to get the state's first National Cancer Institute designation to improve outcomes in the state. Photo courtesy of Louisiana Cancer Research Center

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  • News

Georgia Today: Canceled debate; Emory PFAS trial; Sen. Warnock calls for Flock guardrails

On the September 23 edition: A gubernatorial debate set for last night was canceled; A clinical trial tests whether PFAS chemicals can be removed from your body; And National Park Service officials will hear from you about a controversial land swap.

September 23, 2026
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By:
  • Peter Biello and
  • Miranda Hawkins

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  • Technology

The data center backlash is reshaping American politics — one community at a time

With striking speed, the widespread debate around data centers has become a fault line in American communities, cutting across political parties and forging unexpected alliances.

September 21, 2026
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By:
  • Scott Neuman
 Tricia Pridemore resigned from the Public Service Commission and is now the executive vice president of energy, regulatory and policy for DC BLOX . Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder

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  • News

Former Georgia regulator who helped set policy for data centers now works for company building them

Tricia Pridemore, who left her post on the state Public Service Commission a few months early, is now working for a corporation that builds data centers primarily in the Southeast.

September 17, 2026
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By:
  • Alander Rocha and
  • Georgia Recorder
A few volunteers hold up a Protect Effingham.Org on a pedestrian footbridge crossing Highway 21 in Port Wentworth on Sep. 9, 2026

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  • News

Effingham County residents resist OpenAI data center by directing traffic flows to a website

A citizen-led nonprofit aims to guide traffic flows towards a website that one volunteer describes as "an effort to provide truthful information around Project Camellia."

September 16, 2026
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By:
  • Jillian Magtoto
The coal yard of Georgia Power's Plant Scherer on September 3, 2025.

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  • Environment

How the EPA rollback of carbon emission rules could play out in Georgia's coal-fired power plants

A rollback of Biden-era carbon rules by the EPA gives a new lease on life to Georgia Power's massive coal-fired power plants. 

September 16, 2026
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship

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  • News

Georgia Today: Effingham County data center; EPA rolls back regulations; Voter registration day

On the September 15 edition: The Effingham County Commission delayed the site review where the new OpenA-I data center is supposed to be built; Today is national voter registration day; And some here in Georgia say the rollback of EPA regulations is a green light for unchecked pollution.

September 15, 2026
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By:
  • Peter Biello and
  • Miranda Hawkins
Keisha Lance Bottoms

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  • Politics

Governor candidates trade barbs over data centers with less than a month until early voting starts

Both Georgia candidates for governor are attacking each other over data centers and transparency with less than a month to go until early voting.

September 14, 2026
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By:
  • Sarah Kallis
How Fears Over the Measles Vaccine Took Hold: asset-mezzanine-16x9

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  • News

Georgia Today: Candidates debate over data centers; Measles outbreak continues; Donkey lawsuit

On the September 14 edition: A Georgia woman sues the police officer who shot and killed her donkey; Data centers and transparency become points of contention in the governor's race; And a new study of psychedelics in medicine is expected to start trials within the next six months.

September 14, 2026
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By:
  • Peter Biello and
  • Miranda Hawkins
data center

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  • Business

Most data center bans are in metro areas, despite more facilities heading for rural areas

Nearly 700 bans have been proposed across the country, with a quarter in rural communities as anti-data center backlash grows ahead of midterm elections.

September 09, 2026
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By:
  • Julia Tilton and
  • The Daily Yonder
A woman shops for groceries at El Progreso Market in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood of Washington, D.C., U.S., August 19, 2022. Photo by Sarah Silbiger/REUTERS

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  • News

Georgia Today: Another Flock arrest; Affordable groceries; Complaint of illegal data center zoning

On the September 3 edition: Residents file a complaint over the way a southeast Georgia county approved a data center; the City of Milton settles a wrongful death lawsuit; and Keisha Lance Bottoms rolls out a plan to make groceries more affordable.

September 03, 2026
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By:
  • Peter Biello and
  • Miranda Hawkins
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