Atlanta's push to get a handle on data centers hit a snag. The City Council's utilities committee approved a resolution on August 11 to create a 23-member task force that would study data centers' effects on the power grid, water supply, noise, the tax digest and utility rates, then report back within 90 days.
On August 17 the full council sent the measure back to committee after Mayor Andre Dickens said his office was forming its own data center strategy group and members worried about duplicating the effort. For now the city still has no coordinated policy while data center proposals keep arriving across the region.
Why it matters
Data centers are the region's fastest-growing land use and its biggest new draw on power and water, and Atlanta is still arguing over who should even study them.
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