How Data Center Developers Staked Their Claim in Rural Georgia

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By Edward DonnellyApr 7, 2026, 2:05 pm
Jacqueline Lassetter wanted to see America’s biggest data center. So one day in July last year, at the age of 78, she jumped into a car with her daughter, Daphne, and headed west across the muddy Chattahoochee River, leaving their wooded Georgia home for the Nevada desert. A week later, she was standing in…

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