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Small Towns Are on the Front Lines of AI’s Expansion
Today on the Big Take: What happens when a company backed by the world’s biggest private equity firm wants to build a huge data center in your town?
The QTS data center complex under development in Fayetteville, Georgia.
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The Hopeful Primitive Baptist Church in Fayetteville, Georgia, has been standing for two hundred years. Now, with a huge, private equity-backed data center coming to town, it will soon be surrounded by towering power poles — and power lines will run through the yards of more than a hundred homes and private properties.