On the July 8th edition: For its two final days, hours are being extended for Atlanta's FIFA World Cup fan festival; A Savannah State baseball player is currently being detained by ICE; And the city of Albany faces questions about data centers.
In May, as Georgians rallied at the polls and community meetings against power- and water-guzzling data centers, Republican Gov. Brian Kemp met with representatives of OpenAI about the AI industry-leading company’s business plans for the state.
Georgia Environmental Regulators say a company installing natural gas-based electrical generation for a Newton County data center has likely violated state air quality rules.
On the July 3 edition: Augusta is seeking feedback on its new data center ordinance; Plans for a boutique hotel in downtown Blue Ridge have sparked debate over the character of the city; And are Joro spiders competing with native insects for their meals?
Driven by the rise of AI and the race to build the infrastructure powering it, the data center boom, previously housed in urban areas, has arrived in rural America.
The explosion of data centers in Georgia means new electricity generation and new transmission lines to carry that power. Now some homeowners stand to lose property in the process.
On the June 4 edition: Columbus weighs an ordinance that would regulate large data centers; travelers brace for the coming closure of a section of Atlanta's perimeter highway; and FIFA World Cup fans coming to Atlanta are likely to encounter high temperatures.
On the May 29th edition: The Georgia Chamber helps cities prepare for data centers; Federal budget cuts hurt Georgia's storm resilience; And if you think Atlanta traffic is bad now, wait until the World Cup starts.
Choose Columbus, the marketing arm for the Development Authority of Columbus, has released a map showing where the Project Ruby proposed hyperscale data center would be built on 865 acres in northeastern Muscogee County, bordering Harris County and Talbot County.
