Georgia: 300 Parcels and Counting Ansley Brown describes it as theft. The surveyors walking her mother's property in rural Georgia. The legal notices. The realization that a billion-dollar utility company was invoking eminent domain to build transmission lines — 70 to 80 percent of whose capacity will go to AI data centers, not to local residents. "It's ours," Brown told CBS News....

Georgia Power Is Taking Homes for AI Data Centers — and the Numbers Are Devastating Let me be direct with you: if you think the AI boom is just about chatbots writing poems and generating pictures, you are not paying attention. The real story is happening on the ground — literally — in rural Georgia, where a utility company is seizing family homes to build transmission lines that will feed AI...

Georgia Power's 1,000-Mile Land Grab: Eminent Domain in the AI Era I have been watching infrastructure fights for the better part of a decade. Data center opposition, transmission line battles, the slow friction between progress and property rights. None of it prepared me for what is unfolding in Georgia right now. Georgia Power, a subsidiary of Southern Company, is rolling out a grid...

The Video: Georgia Homeowners Face an Impossible Choice Watch this CBS Mornings segment first. It's six and a half minutes that capture everything wrong with how we're building AI infrastructure in America. Skyler Henry reports from rural Georgia where homeowners like Ansley Brown are being told: sell your family's land, or the state will take it. The buyer? Georgia Power. The purpose?...

The New Land Grab Has a Name There are more than 3,000 data centers operating in the United States right now. Another 1,500 are in development, according to Pew Research. Most of them are being built in rural areas where land is cheap and communities are small. But the infrastructure needed to power them — the transmission lines, the substations, the pipelines — doesn't stop at the...