The QTS data center site under construction in Fayetteville.
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Blackstone’s Data-Center Ambitions School a City on AI Power Strains
Property owners around Fayetteville, Georgia, are at the front lines of a battle over infrastructure critical to our tech future.
The power lines weren’t even built, yet ran into resistance at every turn.
They would encroach on more than 100 properties and houses, hitting home values and crossing people’s yards. Few saw them coming — not city officials, nor local homeowners — until employees of the state’s largest utility came calling with designs to build high-voltage wires on their land.