US-Bewohner sind wütend über den Plan, ihre Häuser für KI-Rechenzentren zu beschlagnahmen und zu zerstören
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/residents-furious-plan-seize-destroy-125418836.html
US-Bewohner sind wütend über den Plan, ihre Häuser für KI-Rechenzentren zu beschlagnahmen und zu zerstören
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/residents-furious-plan-seize-destroy-125418836.html
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Excerpts from article by Joe Wilkins, citing [Fortune](https://fortune.com/2026/07/26/georgia-power-utility-company-eminent-domain-grid-expansion-data-center/):
*As dozens of cities across the US are forced to scrap their plans to build power-hungry data centers, some civic leaders are no longer asking.*
*According to new reporting by Fortune, the state of Georgia’s for-profit utility company, Georgia Power, is looking to demolish and pave over some 30 homes — and 330 parcels of land — that currently block the route of a 1,000 mile transmission line.*
*When it goes live, the line will distribute nearly 10,000 megawatts of energy from a newly constructed power plant, „approximately 80 percent of which is expected to power data centers,“ according to a fact sheet provided by the Georgia Public Service Commission (the rest will presumably be split between local businesses, homes, and other customers.)*
*Backed by the state, Georgia Power is now working on paying landowners to move, or else face the seizure of their property by eminent domain.*
*As one can imagine, the predominantly rural homeowners affected aren’t exactly thrilled at the idea of clearing out to make space for more infrastructure to power AI.*
*“We don’t have a choice in this. They are going to be expanding power lines,“ the woman, Ansley Brown, said in one video posted on Instagram. „Why? For the data centers. All of this is for the data centers.“*
*Speaking to Fortune, a spokesperson for Georgia congressman and former White House Political Director under Donald Trump Brian Jack — whose district encompasses many of the properties in Georgia Power’s crosshairs — said the lawmaker’s office has „received multiple requests for help and support from constituents.“*
That’s what you get when you vote in authoritarians. They tend to do authoritarian things. Republicans don’t want to represent, they want to *rule*.
Georgia is getting what it voted for. If they want a different outcome, they should vote differently.
will somebody think of the homeless language models!?
Calling this ‘AI infrastructure’ makes it sound way more abstract than it is. If 80% of that line is for data centers, the companies benefiting from it should be paying enough that homeowners can actually choose to move—not hiding behind eminent domain.
It is kind of amazing how much political and social capital we’ll spend on AI.
Replacing / improving the power grid for more efficient & cleaner energy: nah.
Spending $$$ on a desire to displace the American workforce: ALL IN.
and if you protest too hard to protect your home the police will show up and start doing beatdowns.
Why would Biden make us move out of our homes, they keep asking themselves.
A rational society would forbid public entities from enforcing non-disclosure agreements. If Georgia power wants to have authority via the PUC to enforce eminent domain, then they don’t get to have private deals that obscure their payouts and terms. Eminent domain is a public action, we have the right to information.
If the Republicans want to glorify capitalism as the driver of innovation, it’s a two-way street. Private entities owe the public reasonable access, information, and discourse when they are entitled to public benefits.
>For Brown, the fight appears to be over. As *Fortune* reports, Georgia Power says they’ve „concluded“ negotiations with the family, though the exact deal has not been disclosed, possibly due to a non-disclosure agreement. It also wasn’t clear to what extent the congressman intervened, though Georgia Power told the publication they appreciate „his advocacy on behalf of his constituent.“
Their „constituent‘ the owner of the data center.
Watching the current climate related drama unfold… and seeing AI companies completely blind to it. The real question is: Will governments bail out the datacenters first over the citizens when they are affected by the extreme weather related events? The bank and auto market history should be a clue.
For a country so against socialism, America sure goes all in on it for corpos.
I want to mention that with interest rates much higher in 2026 than 10 years ago, it could be more than 2x the mortgage to replace the home.
Remember a lot of this bs is due to local politicians.
That’s your city government, your county zoning board etc.
When is it going to be enough?
I didn’t think eminent domain could be used for private builds?
Then the answer is to fight.
My father lost a welding shop to eminate domain in the 90s because a Target store would „bring in more tax revenue.“ Abuse of a system meant for roads and schools isn’t anything new, just a new high spender coming to town
Has anyone actually addressed the whole „these data centers we are spending hundreds of billions on are built with infrastructure and tech that will be out of date and worthless in 2 years“ thing yet?
Time to destroy AI
Soon each new home will be required to have a flock camera and data center
What a bizarre headline — focusing on the reaction to a problem.
It’s more like — “US Government Allows Corporations to Steal Your Homes To Build Mass Surveillance Warehouses And There’s Nothing You Can Do”
Billionaires are a cancer upon society, their data centres are merely a symptom.
I’d say long past time to start considering what the equivalent remedy to chemotherapy should be.
Highways are a public good.
Data centers aren’t.
More specifically, the benefits of highways are distributed to the public. Eminent domain can’t be justified for data centers unless, at minimum, they support an essential public utility, they’re publicly owned, and the profits are shared.
But her laugh
On a related note, I just learned a park in my area, which has a huge lake, used to be the location of an entire village, with homes and businesses, as recently as the 1960’s. The state seized the land and forced the entire village out, and then flooded it. All because some state rep wanted a lake and he wanted it THERE.
Arm up, say no, and enforce it.
This is your home, they have no right, even if the law says they do.
Vote Republican, get Republican prizes.