Georgia

Georgia Power Defends AI Data Centers’ Impact on Georgia’s Electric Grid

Georgia Power Defends AI Data Centers’ Impact on Georgia’s Electric Grid

Melissa Palmer
February 23, 2026

Georgia Power is using this summit to push back on the narrative that AI-heavy data centers will automatically strain Georgia’s...

Georgia’s soaring data center tax breaks strain budget, spark policy debate

Georgia’s soaring data center tax breaks strain budget, spark policy debate

Melissa Palmer
February 13, 2026

Georgia’s data center equipment tax exemptions ballooned from an expected $327 million this year to more than $2.5 billion, showing...

Balancing data center growth, rezoning battles, and community oversight in LaGrange, Georgia

Balancing data center growth, rezoning battles, and community oversight in LaGrange, Georgia

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January 30, 2026

LaGrange is trying to thread the needle between welcoming data center tax and power revenue and managing local backlash, and...

Transit-adjacent Atlanta data center plan tests zoning, neighbors, and AI infra

Transit-adjacent Atlanta data center plan tests zoning, neighbors, and AI infra

Melissa Palmer
January 28, 2026

Atlanta is debating an exception to its new data center transit buffer rules to allow a data exchange facility on...

Balancing data center growth with Atlanta’s tightening water constraints

Balancing data center growth with Atlanta’s tightening water constraints

Melissa Palmer
January 27, 2026

Metro Atlanta, Georgia’s data center boom is now a hard constraint problem around finite water, with facilities drawing up to...

Georgia moves to curb AI data centers over rising power costs

Georgia moves to curb AI data centers over rising power costs

Melissa Palmer
January 26, 2026

Georgia is moving to become the first state with a statewide moratorium on new data centers, with similar bills emerging...

Revised data center math slashes promised Georgia jobs and local payoff

Revised data center math slashes promised Georgia jobs and local payoff

Melissa Palmer
January 16, 2026

Georgia’s own auditors just cut their estimate of data center economic impact to less than one-third of what they originally...

Columbia County, Georgia Zoning decision will test how far we’ll bend for data centers

Columbia County, Georgia Zoning decision will test how far we’ll bend for data centers

Melissa Palmer
January 15, 2026

Columbia County is weighing three zoning variances for new data centers, with growth-minded officials on one side and rural residents...

Roswell, Georgia’s data center moratorium signals tighter local AI infrastructure controls

Roswell, Georgia’s data center moratorium signals tighter local AI infrastructure controls

Melissa Palmer
January 13, 2026

Roswell, Georgia just put a 90-day emergency halt on new data center projects while it rewrites the rules. The city...

Tax breaks explain only small share of Georgia data center boom

Tax breaks explain only small share of Georgia data center boom

Melissa Palmer
January 5, 2026

Only about 30% of Georgia’s data center buildout is tied directly to the 2018 sales and use tax exemption, down...

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