Family says they're forced to sell home to help power data centers
Georgia Power says building a new transmission line will require acquiring more than 300 parcels of land, including residential properties.
Updated on: July 13, 2026 / 12:49 PM EDT / CBS News
Sell your home, or the state will take it — that's the ultimatum some homeowners in Georgia say they are facing amid the AI boom.
Utility giant Georgia Power is planning to build a new transmission line to in part help power new data centers . It estimates 70-80% of the power on the new line will help serve data centers and the remaining 20-30% of power will serve the state's growing residential and commercial demand.
According to the company, increasing demand has outpaced the capacity of its existing grid and building a new transmission line requires acquiring more than 300 parcels of land, including residential properties.
Ansley Brown's childhood home that she said was built when she was 5 or 6 years old is just one of the properties impacted.
"It's ours," she told CBS News. "It's our family. We belong here."