Georgia leads push to ban datacenters used to power America’s AI boom

Georgia is becoming a battleground over the rapid growth of data centers, with state lawmakers introducing a bill to impose the first statewide moratorium on new data centers in the U.S. The bill is driven by concerns over the data centers' huge energy and water consumption. Meanwhile, Georgia's public service commission recently approved a plan for 10 additional gigawatts of energy to support the data center industry's expansion in the state.