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....

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?...

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...

How AI Data Center Power Demand Is Reshaping the Grid in 2026 I’ve been running infrastructure for over a decade. I’ve seen cloud buildouts, crypto mining booms, and the slow crawl of colocation growth. But nothing—nothing—prepares you for the scale of AI data center power demand in 2026. We’re not talking about incremental growth. We’re talking about a step change that is breaking the grid in...

Meta Wants to Sell You AI Compute. Anthropic Wants the Government to Veto It. Both Are Telling You the Same Thing. Folks, it has been a week in AI-land. And if you blinked, you missed the two stories that together tell you everything you need to know about where this industry is really headed — and who''s trying to sell you what. Let me connect the dots for you, because nobody else will. Dot...

Three AI Companies, Three Approaches to Government Power — and None of Them Are Comfortable Three stories broke this week. A funding rumor. A contract dispute. An export control lifted. Pick them apart and they look like normal AI industry news. Pull them together, and you see what nobody's connecting. OpenAI is offering the US government a 5% stake in the company — roughly 2.6 billion worth...

3 GW of AI Data Centers Just Dropped Off the PJM Grid at Once — This Is the Problem Nobody Is Solving What Happened at 7:56 AM on July 22 At 7:56 AM Eastern time on Wednesday, July 22, 2026, a transmission line fault occurred in Northern Virginia — the region that hosts the largest concentration of data centers on the planet. What happened next should terrify anyone building AI infrastructure...

3.1 Gigawatts Vanished in 30 Seconds: The Data Center Grid Crisis Nobody Is Talking About A power line went down outside Washington, D.C., this week. Normally, the electrical grid absorbs that kind of fault in seconds. Circuit breakers trip, reroute, life goes on. This time was different. This time, more than 3 gigawatts of data center load disappeared from the PJM grid in under 30 seconds —...

The Grid Emergency That Wouldn't End: Data Centers on Diesel as the Heat Dome Arrives On June 30, with temperatures already pushing past 100°F across the Northeast, Energy Secretary Chris Wright signed the third emergency order of 2026 under Section 202(c) of the Federal Power Act. The directive authorized PJM Interconnection to order any customer drawing 50 megawatts or more at a single...

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...