Behind Closed Doors, Georgia County Rewrote Data Center Rules

Behind Closed Doors, Georgia County Rewrote Data Center Rules

On the cusp of a December 16 county hearing in Georgia on a proposed law to regulate the booming data center industry, documents uncovered by DeSmog reveal that lobbyists continued to influence county leaders to revise planning regulations in favor of developers. Over the past year, Coweta County, about 40 miles southwest of Atlanta, has become a national hot spot for proposed artificial intelligence (AI) data center projects and a growing natio…