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Lowndes County Passes Moratorium on Data Center Applications for 60 Days

By: Rut Labrada, Arts & Entertainment Editor The Lowndes County Board of Commissioners passed a two-month moratorium on applications for Artificial Intelligence (AI) data centers on Aug. 25.  Unanimously voted by the commissioners, this moratorium will ban businesses from submitting applications to receive permits to build data centers for 60 days, as commissioners and county agencies research, review, and develop ...

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AI Data Center Debate Continues in Second Town Hall Meeting

By: Rut Labrada, Staff writer At a town hall meeting on April 17 at the Student Union Theatre, guest speakers and more than 70 city residents discussed concerns regarding an artificial intelligence data center to be built near the Foxborough subdivision, concluding, among other things, that the data center would not create many jobs for the City of Valdosta. The data center, which is being spearheaded by lawyer Pope Langdale ...

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