Drew Kann
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The data center boom is transforming Georgia. Some residents could lose their land. (opens the original)
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Rachael Maszk and her husband ditched their Buckhead apartment four years ago seeking more space to garden, keep chickens and raise a family. They found what they were looking for in unincorporated Fayette County, 25 miles southwest of Atlanta. Their new home sits on 2 acres and has the seclusion Maszk craved for her young children. Then, last fall, the couple got a letter from Georgia Power. It said new, high-voltage transmission lines the company plans to build may need to cross their property
Major gateway to the Okefenokee Swamp is getting a new name (opens the original)
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Stephen C. Foster State Park, one of three main entrances to Georgia’s famed Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, is getting a new name. The park will now be called Okefenokee State Park, the Georgia Department of Natural Resources announced Tuesday. Near Fargo, on the remote west side of the swamp, the park offers campgrounds and some of the best stargazing in the state. The park, nearly 300 miles southeast of downtown Atlanta, is Georgia’s only International Dark Sky-certified state park and s
Georgia regulators won’t revisit approval of new power plants for data centers (opens the original)
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The Public Service Commission on Wednesday rejected a request from environmental groups to reconsider its approval of a Georgia Power plan to add huge amounts of electricity generation capacity to serve data centers. The “petition for reconsideration” challenged the PSC’s Dec. 19 decision to “certify” almost 10,000 megawatts of new gas-burning power plants, battery storage systems and some solar to be added to Georgia Power’s fleet. The expansion — the largest in Georgia Power’s history — is set
Georgia lawmakers leave data center tax breaks intact, punt on energy costs (opens the original)
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When the General Assembly convened in January to begin its legislative session, few issues seemed to get more attention from lawmakers than data centers. A flurry of data center bills emerged in the session’s early days, from moratoriums on new developments to measures aimed at the facilities’ energy infrastructure costs and rolling back the lucrative tax breaks the state offers to lure them to the Peach State. But as the legislature adjourned in the wee hours of Friday morning, the robust debat
Environmental groups take PSC to court over Georgia Power data center expansion (opens the original)
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Environmental and faith groups have escalated their fight against Georgia Power’s data center-driven expansion, asking a court to review whether regulators broke state law by approving the utility’s plan to add a slew of new power resources. In the petition, the groups argue Georgia Power never proved all of the new power resources were needed, a requirement under state law for the Public Service Commission to approve them. They argue overbuilding for data centers that have not signed contracts
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