There’s Not Enough Power for America’s High-Tech Ambitions

Georgia is a magnet for data centers and other cutting-edge industries, but vast electricity demands are clashing with the newcomers’ green-energy goals

 
 
ATLANTA—Bill Thomson needs power fast. The problem is that many of the other businesspeople racing into Georgia do too. 
 
Thomson heads marketing and product management at DC Blox, which in recent years built a string of data centers in midsize cities across the fast-growing Southeast. The company more recently set its sights on Atlanta—the would-be capital of the region—joining a slew of tech and industrial firms piling into the state.
 
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