'My Childhood Home Is Being Taken': Eminent Domain for Data Centers Targets Properties Across a Thousand Miles of Grid Expansion in Georgia

Statewide context only — over 1,000 miles of new transmission line and roughly 330 parcels affected by Georgia Power’s data-center-driven grid expansion, with the company acknowledging limited use of eminent domain. Does not mention Hampton or O’Neal AME specifically; used in the essay only for general institutional posture, not attributed to this specific project.

Clarified 2026-07-28 (approval-brief correction pass): the 1,000+ miles of transmission line is a planned rollout, not completed construction. Verbatim: Georgia Power “is rolling out a grid expansion plan that includes building more than 1,000 miles [of transmission line]… over the next five years.” An earlier draft phrased this as already built (“already runs past a thousand miles of new line”); corrected to describe it as a plan.