The Land Grab You Haven't Heard About If you own land in rural America, pay attention. The AI data center boom is coming for your property — and your government is helping them take it. Across at least three states this month alone, families are getting letters, surveyors are showing up on their land, and utility companies are invoking a legal power originally intended for building roads and...

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...