Finally: National News coverage on Georgia Power using eminent domain to seize Americans homes for Data Centers 330 property owners impacted 21 homes slated for complete demolition Georgia Power is planning power lines just 12 feet from bedroom windows. Georgia Power trucks and crews full access right next to... living spaces Multiple data centers involved, even one major data center in a different county. 3 additional data centers already approved in Coweta County that will use the new power If homes don’t agree to sell they are given condemnation threats Family farms, cow pastures, chicken coops, animals, and beautiful country homes being torn down or devalued. Homes are already being demolished by Georgia Power for the same project They are claiming it’s for “public good” Eminent domain being used to benefit private data centers is not for “public good” They are kicking Americans off their generational homes and calling it a “public good” I also learned homeowners are reporting Georgia Power is undervaluing properties. As of right now the number is up to about 30 properties they could be facing full demolitionshow more

Peachtree City Ga agreed to it without public input. They held the council meeting in N Atlanta so no one could attend. And QTS has been stealing Fayette County water.

Perhaps this technique can help the citizens push back and stop the data centers. Worth a try IMO.

@DebbieAndrle Georgia Power is owned by Southern Company, which got a ton of grants for the green energy scam. I know a lot about the company, and it’s not good.

This should not be allowed to happen. There are a lot of land they could do this on. I don’t trust this. There is more to these data centers. This is one of the worst laws our country has ever had. It’s not right. Do this where the people with millions of dollars live and see how much of a fight they put up.

When the public doesn’t want it, it’s no longer for the public good.

This is so evil!!! No one should ever be allowed to just steal a person's home. I don't care for what reason!

@wendyp4545 @realDonaldTrump eminent domain must be curtailed to strict necessities only, not for data centers!

See these companies and governments want us to embrace AI and data centers but then they pull this kind of shit and if you have to take something by force it’s not for the good of the people and the people know this.

@Moyock76 Are these data centers being built not only to take over jobs, control people but massively affect our food, water and air supply?

There’s a huge difference between eminent domain and public good

We need a follow-up story in which Georgia Power has been destroyed by citizens.

This is wrong on all counts! Where is Governor Kemp? Why doesn’t he get involved?

Republicans need to take a stand against these blood sucking harbingers of globalist control and destruction. I'm talking about the ticks... Oh yeah, data centers too.

This has got to stop. They are popping up everywhere nationwide.

I understand the issue and genuinely am not taking sides, this is a local issue to resolve. However, However.... CTH notices things. We are not blind to the silent angle at play. Georgia, specifically Georgia, has become the playground for Sea Island and IC political manipulation. Notice how a disproportionate number of controversial issues flow from Georgia. The "issue" of the day has national implications, in this case datacenters, but the narrative around the issue originates from Georgia. Make a note and you will notice this as a common theme.

There are a ton of properties out there for sale. Why use eminent domain for this? 🤬

They will use condemnation to take the property. They did it to my family. By the once they take your property, they won't pay what it's worth.

the compensation is nothing.. nothing. pennies on the dollar! @POTUS @DonaldJTrumpJr

What isn't being talked about enuf is what those data ctrs do to the water to the surrounding homes. From reports I've seen it's disgusting. If eminent domain is theoretically for the "good of the people"...how is losing your homes and toxic sludge supposed to be good?

This has to be stopped! This will set a precedent. If they get away with it in Georgia they will try it everywhere else in America! Wake up

GA Power has been raising its rates over the last few months, at least according to my bills. My monthly use has never been this low, and my bills have never been this high! And I'm saying by $100 to $350 per month higher! BTW, I live alone.

This is the tyrannical government our fore fathers wrote about.

As an example, I'm in IT. I automate processes with Python. I was asked to use Copilot to help me solve an issue. Our version of Copilot is aware of our environment. As a result, it knew exactly what I have done so far with the issue. I never shared that. Surveillance state is coming.

Unfortunately undervaluing property is a product of UN Agenda 21/30. Ask anyone who assesses property for states for rights of way to add highways and public infrastructure. Agenda 21 limits use of real estate thereby lowering valuations that can be offered.

"Public good"? Never from big tech. Good is family farms and protection of our water sources. Why are "they" terraforming so aggressively? Many truths, real truth needs to be exposed. Quickly.

Eminent domain is being abused for big tech. It's time to stop it now. Georgia needs to protect our farmland, our water systems and our rights.

@AINowInstitute has a policy toolkit for communities looking to fight data centers. Please share widely!

Any data center should have ballot box voter approval.

@johnrich i dont know how your project of farm and ranchers separates from this, but eminent domain is a huge octopus. How do you cut the tenticles of an octopus without the appendeges growing back?

That's communism. They want it, they just take it.

Right-of-way and vegetation clearance requirements around transmission infrastructure are not universal; they depend on voltage class, conductor sag, blowout, easement width, NESC requirements, utility standards, and NERC vegetation-management obligations. A 25 - 30’ clearance may be common in some applications, but larger transmission corridors often require substantially more separation depending on the line design and operating conditions. The larger issue is what happens after these newly commissioned data centers transition from islanded or self supplied generation to full or partial grid interconnection. Many of them are installing dedicated generation because the interconnection queue is long, but that does not mean they are permanently independent from the grid. It usually means they are bridging the gap until the utility interconnection, transmission upgrades, and protection studies are completed. From a market standpoint, especially in regions like ERCOT where scarcity pricing can approach the high system wide offer cap of $5,000/MWh, large data centers with dispatchable onsite generation could theoretically support the grid by curtailing load, exporting excess capacity, or participating in demand response and ancillary service programs. In practice, I am skeptical that this will be the default operating posture, but I try to remain optimistic. The real reliability concern is the dynamic interaction between a massive, power electronics heavy load and the bulk electric system. A hyperscale data center can represent hundreds of megawatts of nearly instantaneous demand. If its onsite turbines trip, fail to synchronize, lose fuel pressure, suffer a controls malfunction, or separate from the facility bus, the data center’s electrical system may attempt to transfer that load to the utility source almost immediately, depending on its switchgear scheme, UPS configuration, static transfer logic, relay settings, and interconnection agreement. This instantaneous demand is not a normal load pickup by any metric. Realistically, a sudden step change in real and reactive power demand, in this specific situation, could have catastrophic consequences. If the utility feeder, substation transformer, transmission source, voltage-support equipment, and protective-relay coordination were not designed for that magnitude of instantaneous transfer, the result can be severe voltage depression, frequency deviation, rapid reactive power swings, overload conditions, nuisance relay operation, UFLS/UVLS activation, or the feeder breaker opening to protect the system. In a weak area of the grid, or in a region already operating under constrained reserves, that event can propagate beyond the single customer and create cascading reliability issues. NERC has already warned that large loads with fast ramping behavior can create voltage and frequency regulation problems, exhaust balancing reserves, trigger load shed or generation curtailment, and contribute to wider outages if voltage instability develops. NERC also documented a real event where a 230 kV fault coincided with the unexpected loss or transfer of roughly 1,500 MW of voltage sensitive load, primarily associated with data centers, demonstrating that these are not theoretical concerns. So yes, data centers with onsite generation could be beneficial if properly studied, modeled, coordinated, and operated as flexible grid assets. But if they are connected without disciplined interconnection studies, fast load shed schemes, ride through requirements, staged transfer logic, relay coordination, adequate voltage support, and real time communication with the system operator, they can become one of the most dangerous types of load on the grid: enormous, fast-moving, nonlinear, and unforgiving. It is going to be interesting to see how this all plays out.

Now for-profit companies have the eminent domain rights over We-The-People cloaked as a power company?? Communism..

All political power belongs to the People. A ballot vote must be taken to invoke eminent domain. The representative form of government we have now ask for our boat once by ballot. We are not represented. In my opinion, we should be asked to vote for every single law that’s put on the books, every amount of money spent. Our representatives have taken the power of our vote by proxy.

Someone needs to follow the money. No leader allows their community to be wrecked for free. Someone's pockets are being filled with data center dollars, and it's not the pockets of the landowners.

@GeorgiaJim62862 I am opposed to all AI data centers until further notice. I don't want to see us become like China to compete with China. This agenda is obviously out of control. The whole argument is stupid anyway. Telling us we need to be afraid of AI drones from China? We have nukes.