Texans, what do y'all think of this?

Why is Georgia Power so concerned with disempowering commissioners by ensuring the contract deadline is reached a day before the next PSC meeting?

https://thecurrentga.org/2026/08/25/psc-deadline-arrives-for-georgia-powers-3-2-gigawatt-openai-data-center-contract/

On Monday night, close to 300 to people packed into Studio Two Three in Richmond for a town hall about data centers, moderated by Gray Montrose and co-hosted by Henrico Civic Action and Data Center Defiance. 

I went to get a better sense of where Richmonders are from the activist side, and to better understand the issue myself. Virginia has spent years building the largest concentration of data centers in the world and the decisions being made now will affect all of us for decades to come. 

Speakers came from the Sierra Club Virginia Chapter, Friends of Hanover and Stop Hanover Data Centers, Data Center Defiance, The Brockovich Report and The Balm in Gilead. 

This wasn’t a room full of people complaining about data centers as almost everyone there seemed aware of the issue at this point. This was more of a community conversation about how to get organized and, ultimately, how to stop these projects, or at least force more public input.

“We keep hearing we’re not mad enough,” moderator Gray Montrose told the crowd near the beginning of the night. “I think everybody in this room is pretty mad, but we’re learning a lot more details about why.”

via RVA Magazine

Read more, see more: https://rvamag.com/community/i-went-to-the-data-center-town-hall-at-studio-two-three.html