🦔Georgia Power is using eminent domain to seize 21 homes and 330 properties in Coweta County to build transmission lines for AI data centers. Angela Hall, a 49-year-old single mother who escaped public housing to buy her 2.5-acre Newnan home, has until August 1 to leave. The nearby Project Sail data center proposal would put nine buildings on 830 acres demanding 900 megawatts, enough to rival a nuclear reactor. Coweta commissioners approved the rezoning 3-2 in April. Citizens for a Rural Coweta and Stop Project Sail are now suing. My Take Eminent domain should worry every homeowner in a state with hyperscaler activity. The legal mechanism that lets a private utility company seize private property for "public use" was designed for highways, water mains, and electrical grid maintenance, not for transmission lines dedicated to a single industrial customer. When Georgia Power takes Angela Hall's home so 900 megawatts can flow to Project Sail, the public benefit is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that calculation, and the courts will spend the next decade sorting out which uses qualify. The resistance is now organized, well-documented, and showing up in court filings, zoning appeals, and viral social media at the same time. Coweta joins Saline Township, Tucson, Fayetteville, Lake Tahoe, Phoenix, and Utah on a list that gets longer every week. Each fight looks local. Together they form a pattern hyperscaler capex models have not priced in. The buildout pace Microsoft, Meta, Google, and Amazon assume depends on land getting permitted quickly, transmission getting built quickly, and communities accepting the tradeoffs. None of those assumptions are holding up. Hedgie🤗

🦔Residents living near AI data centers are reporting constant low-frequency hum measured as infrasound, sound below the human hearing threshold that causes dizziness, nausea, vertigo, and sleep disruption. The noise comes from cooling systems and onsite gas turbines hyperscalers are building behind-the-meter to bypass slow grid interconnects. Local zoning rules do not regulate infrasound because traditional noise ordinances only measure decibels in the audible range, leaving residents with no legal recourse. The video below captures what households near these facilities are living with around the clock. My Take The infrasound problem does not exist in the regulations because the technology producing it at scale did not exist when the rules were written, and developers know exactly which rural jurisdictions lack the framework to push back. Households who bought before the data center was announced get to choose between selling at a loss or living with symptoms that did not exist a year ago, and that cost is being externalized onto people who never agreed to host critical infrastructure for the AI buildout. Hedgie🤗