News brief
About 80 percent of the additional 10 gigawatts requested by Georgia Power, the utility, is set to go to power new data centers circling the capital of Atlanta. The state leads the nation in new AI data centers. Its聽public utility commission will have to balance business interests in the Republican state with rapidly rising costs for consumers, who pay higher rates for their lights than industry. The public hearings are a microcosm of a growing debate around the power demands of Big Data.
