Data centers, fossil-power expansion and environmental justice

Data-center conflicts remain at peak activity over water, electricity, emissions, utility costs, land use, noise, transparency and local control. The Effingham OpenAI-linked campus, DeKalb’s Shadowbox dispute, proposed Cobb and Chatham restrictions, Mercer County’s farmland decision, Woodstock industrial zoning, the SSE4 pipeline and Georgia Power–Google nuclear-uprate proposal continue shaping the statewide debate.