Mom and daughter given two months to leave beloved home as data centers devour rural land

[1srelluc]

MSN

Ansley Brown never imagined that the modest house tucked away in rural Georgia, a property her mother bought as a struggling single parent, could one day be seized through eminent domain to help power a new generation of massive AI data centers.

'They are literally taking my childhood home,' the 27-year-old told the Daily Mail in an exclusive interview as she stood outside the house in the woods, where she first moved in back in 2002 and where her mother still lives today.

'They want to demolish this property and all two and a half acres of it to build transmission poles for the AI data centers.'

For Brown's mother, Angela Hall, the house represented something she fought hard for.

'I was a very poor single mother before this,' Hall, 49, told the Daily Mail while sitting in her living room.

'I lived in a housing project when Ansley was tiny. I worked my butt off for this house.'

Now Hall has until August 1 to find and buy a new home she can afford - and move her furniture, dogs, cats, chickens, and 20 koi fish out of the property she thought she would someday leave to her granddaughter.

Brown said she had never heard of the multibillion-dollar industrial projects tied to the AI boom that are popping up all over the US until representatives from Georgia Power began showing up in the area about a year ago to conduct surveys and assessments.

Electric utility firm Georgia Power says it needs additional transmission lines to meet soaring electricity demand driven by the rapid expansion of AI data centers, particularly in Coweta and Fayette counties.

As many as 21 homes and 330 properties - sometimes just vacant private land - are reportedly being taken by Georgia Power. The company said it is planning to pay homeowners above market value for their houses and it is in positive negotiations with many residents, including Angela Hall.

'They think we're a bunch of rednecks and they can dump these centers here and we won't be able to do anything about it,' Brown said.


Eminent domain is a nasty proposition whenever it's encountered but even more so when data centers are connected to it. The transmission line BS makes it worse as it's easier for a power company to take land by ED.

Looks like are planners were not looking out for their people for not insisting the data center provide their own on-site power.

 

[pknopp]

It's reasons like this that I support violence against the government/establishment.

If she burned down the data center (with no one in it) I would find her not guilty.

 

[Hafar1014]

MSN

Ansley Brown never imagined that the modest house tucked away in rural Georgia, a property her mother bought as a struggling single parent, could one day be seized through eminent domain to help power a new generation of massive AI data centers.

'They are literally taking my childhood home,' the 27-year-old told the Daily Mail in an exclusive interview as she stood outside the house in the woods, where she first moved in back in 2002 and where her mother still lives today.

'They want to demolish this property and all two and a half acres of it to build transmission poles for the AI data centers.'

For Brown's mother, Angela Hall, the house represented something she fought hard for.

'I was a very poor single mother before this,' Hall, 49, told the Daily Mail while sitting in her living room.

'I lived in a housing project when Ansley was tiny. I worked my butt off for this house.'

Now Hall has until August 1 to find and buy a new home she can afford - and move her furniture, dogs, cats, chickens, and 20 koi fish out of the property she thought she would someday leave to her granddaughter.

Brown said she had never heard of the multibillion-dollar industrial projects tied to the AI boom that are popping up all over the US until representatives from Georgia Power began showing up in the area about a year ago to conduct surveys and assessments.

Electric utility firm Georgia Power says it needs additional transmission lines to meet soaring electricity demand driven by the rapid expansion of AI data centers, particularly in Coweta and Fayette counties.

As many as 21 homes and 330 properties - sometimes just vacant private land - are reportedly being taken by Georgia Power. The company said it is planning to pay homeowners above market value for their houses and it is in positive negotiations with many residents, including Angela Hall.

'They think we're a bunch of rednecks and they can dump these centers here and we won't be able to do anything about it,' Brown said.


Eminent domain is a nasty proposition whenever it's encountered but even more so when data centers are connected to it. The transmission line BS makes it worse as it's easier for a power company to take land by ED.

Looks like are planners were not looking out for their people for not insisting the data center provide their own on-site power.

She gets paid fair market value and will walk away with a nice profit. Cant feel sorry for her

 

[Hafar1014]

It's reasons like this that I support violence against the government/establishment.

If she burned down the data center (with no one in it) I would find her not guilty.

I would and reccomend the maximum sentence

 

[pknopp]

I would and reccomend the maximum sentence

You big government types are like that.

 

[Hafar1014]

You big government types are like that.

IM a small government type but anti arsonists. Throw the book at this bimbo

 

[shockedcanadian]

I recall my grandfather was offered a huge amount of money for a second cottage he had and didn't even use. The casino wanted to buy it to set up a luxury hotel, parking etc. They just needed the land.

His neighbours land was also needed or the deal would not go through. His neighbour refused to sell.

I was just a young guy then and I listened to the story and was not happy, thinking about the neighbour costing my grandpa a tonne of cash. My grandpa said to me after finishing the story, "if the man does not want to sell, what can you do? That is his home and his right".

At the time I didn't understand it as a man now myself, I greatly respect his position and I say thank you grandpa for being the man you were. I will try to do the same in my lifetime.

 

[1srelluc]

She gets paid fair market value and will walk away with a nice profit. Cant feel sorry for her

Well that is BS.....Property values took a nose dive in her area when the ED notices went out. They offered her a bit more once she went viral but not enough to cover moving someplace else.

The average existing home in GA is 338K.

No free man should support ED, much less for transmission lines to a data center.

 

[wamose]

We need some of our geniuses to design a more compact Data center. That would make them more palatable to many of these rural towns. There must be a way to make them smaller.

 

[pknopp]

We need some of our geniuses to design a more compact Data center. That would make them more palatable to many of these rural towns. There must be a way to make them smaller.

Again. We are told that a cell phone has more computing power than all of NASA had to send men to the moon.

Why do we need thes massive buildings to provide wrong info and create meme's?

 

[shockedcanadian]

We need some of our geniuses to design a more compact Data center. That would make them more palatable to many of these rural towns. There must be a way to make them smaller.

The cooling is the issue as I understand it. The amount of water required is immense.

 

[Eman623]

Sounds like an abuse of the ED laws in GA. A data center is a private company, not a public use.

One more reason why Kelo was a horrible decision. The current court should fix that.

 

[Hafar1014]

Sounds like an abuse of the ED laws in GA. A data center is a private company, not a public use.

One more reason why Kelo was a horrible decision. The current court should fix that.

David Souter in a SC ruling made this possible.

 

[Seymour Flops]

MSN

Ansley Brown never imagined that the modest house tucked away in rural Georgia, a property her mother bought as a struggling single parent, could one day be seized through eminent domain to help power a new generation of massive AI data centers.

'They are literally taking my childhood home,' the 27-year-old told the Daily Mail in an exclusive interview as she stood outside the house in the woods, where she first moved in back in 2002 and where her mother still lives today.

'They want to demolish this property and all two and a half acres of it to build transmission poles for the AI data centers.'

For Brown's mother, Angela Hall, the house represented something she fought hard for.

'I was a very poor single mother before this,' Hall, 49, told the Daily Mail while sitting in her living room.

'I lived in a housing project when Ansley was tiny. I worked my butt off for this house.'

Now Hall has until August 1 to find and buy a new home she can afford - and move her furniture, dogs, cats, chickens, and 20 koi fish out of the property she thought she would someday leave to her granddaughter.

Brown said she had never heard of the multibillion-dollar industrial projects tied to the AI boom that are popping up all over the US until representatives from Georgia Power began showing up in the area about a year ago to conduct surveys and assessments.

Electric utility firm Georgia Power says it needs additional transmission lines to meet soaring electricity demand driven by the rapid expansion of AI data centers, particularly in Coweta and Fayette counties.

As many as 21 homes and 330 properties - sometimes just vacant private land - are reportedly being taken by Georgia Power. The company said it is planning to pay homeowners above market value for their houses and it is in positive negotiations with many residents, including Angela Hall.

'They think we're a bunch of rednecks and they can dump these centers here and we won't be able to do anything about it,' Brown said.


Eminent domain is a nasty proposition whenever it's encountered but even more so when data centers are connected to it. The transmission line BS makes it worse as it's easier for a power company to take land by ED.

Looks like are planners were not looking out for their people for not insisting the data center provide their own on-site power.

They would be welcome to move into my house!

 

[Seymour Flops]

Sounds like an abuse of the ED laws in GA. A data center is a private company, not a public use.

One more reason why Kelo was a horrible decision. The current court should fix that.

David Souter in a SC ruling made this possible.

Yes, on the absurd grounds (roughly) that a large business will pay more taxes than a private home, so the large business is in the public interest.

It amounts to "we're bigger, so we get to take your stuff."

 

[1srelluc]

Sounds like an abuse of the ED laws in GA. A data center is a private company, not a public use.

One more reason why Kelo was a horrible decision. The current court should fix that.

The thing is it's the power company using ED for transmission line to a data center.

Power companies are the biggest abusers of ED and they always have the backing of the political class.

 

[LibertyWeeps]

She gets paid fair market value and will walk away with a nice profit. Cant feel sorry for her

I doubt that very seriously.

 

[LibertyWeeps]

I was watching something like this on Youtube a couple months ago.

This man's land bordered on government protected forest land. And the government had been harassing him for decades to get it.
Apparently there is ONE thing you can do to protect your property from being claimed by "big business" or the government, but unfortunately I don't remember what they call it.

He said it was the ONLY way you can protect your land from the government.