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The government is preparing to seize homes and land using eminent domain for the construction of a Data Center in Coweta, Georgia.
This American’s childhood home is being taken by force by Georgia Power. Homeowners in this county do not have a choice.
It effects over 330 private properties. Georgia Power says it will negotiate purchases and easements and use eminent domain.
Georgia Power claims its to strengthen the grid for the growing energy demand in Georgia (due to many new data centers).
The lines are widely linked to Project Sail, a massive proposed hyperscale data center campus that will span 829 acres.
….. This is the dumbest move I’ve seen the datacenter industry make so far. The developers of that datacenter should, if they’re smart, be leaning HARD on Georgia Power to immediately halt its attempt to exercise Eminent Domain and develop an alternate route for its transmission line, at the very least.
An even better idea would be for the developer to announce – TODAY – that it no longer needs Georgia Power to supply electricity to its installation and will instead build its own.
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/a-message-for-datacenter-developers?utm_
The latest political lie “data centers will build their own power centers to supply their electricity.”
Let them build them on all that land that China and Bill Gates owns. Then we can confiscate it.
A 30 year data center builder was interviewed on Newsmax and he said they always try to build on older commercial property that mostly has utilities and is underused. How about building on some run down mall? My guess is some government bureaucrat is making the bad decision just like MN replacing all electric meters with “smart” meters even if you have a perfectly functional meter less than 10 years old..
In other news: Swalwell is a boiling frog.
https://www.c-span.org/program/news-conference/rep-swalwell-accuser-holds-news-conference-on-sexual-misconduct-allegations/677383