By Zachary Hansen
Publication Date: 2026-01-13 13:40:00
Tech giant outlines community promises to try to ease tensions over its hulking server farms, including in the Peach State.
An aerial image depicts the Microsoft data center in Union City on Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2025. The project, developed by EdgeConnex on 136 acres of land, has a price tag of nearly $2 billion and is currently under construction. (Miguel Martinez/AJC 2025)
It was only a few years ago when data centers garnered little public attention outside of techies and industry insiders.
But now in Georgia and across much of the country, protest signs against potential projects dot lawns, petitions amass thousands of signatures and voters cite data centers as a top-of-mind topic.
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