Author name: Edward Donnelly

A county in rural Georgia is due to hold a crucial vote on a proposal to build one of the world’s largest and most power-hungry data centers on Thursday, just a few weeks after the plans were made public. The five commissioners in Twiggs County will meet to consider an application submitted last month by […]

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On a Thursday morning in late August, Georgia country music radio station The Bear 92.5 FM awarded a 10-minute spot to a special guest. Phoning in to the Half & Half Morning Show was J.C. Witt, an executive of San Francisco-based Prologis (NYSE:PLD), the world’s largest industrial real estate company. Prologis wants to build “Project Sail” — […]

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Commissioners in a Georgia county unanimously decided to delay a vote on contentious new rules governing massive data center projects, during a meeting that drew an unusual overflow crowd. Dozens of local residents packed the Commissioner Chambers in Newnan, 40 miles southwest of Atlanta, with more standing outside. Many wore red to show their unified opposition […]

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County commissioners in Georgia may pave the way for a $17 billion “hyperscale” data center on Tuesday by adopting new planning laws shaped by industry lobbyists. If passed, the latest draft of the laws will ease requirements for “Project Sail” — a proposed data center in a rural area of Coweta County, 40 miles southwest of Atlanta — relative […]

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