Woman Says Goodbye to Childhood Home After Data Center Battle
After a high-profile fight over data center infrastructure, Ansley Brown says goodbye to her childhood home.
Georgia woman Ansley Brown has said her emotional farewell to the childhood home at the heart of her campaign against a power transmission project connected to data center growth. The home in Coweta County is set to be demolished by Georgia Power for the Ashley Park-Wansley 500-kilovolt transmission line. Brown, who has become a prominent voice in the debate over AI-driven infrastructure expansion, has used social media to document her family's fight against the project.
She argues that the project will destroy property intended to remain in her family for generations and equates the use of eminent domain for infrastructure with benefiting only data center developments. The Georgia Power project is a new 35-mile transmission line connecting two substations, claimed necessary to support and expand the electric grid, ensure reliability, and prepare for growing energy demand.
Brown and other opponents argue that transmission infrastructure for data centers shouldn't qualify as a public-use project under the Fifth Amendment's eminent domain clause.
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