Ansley Brown never imagined that the modest house tucked away in rural Georgia, a property her mother bought as a struggling single parent, could one day be seized through eminent domain to help power a new generation of massive AI data centers.
‘They are literally taking my childhood home,’ the 27-year-old told the Daily Mail in an exclusive interview as she stood outside the house in the woods, where she first moved in back in 2002 and where her mother still lives today.
‘They want to demolish this property and all two and a half acres of it to build transmission poles for the AI data centers.’
For Brown’s mother, Angela Hall, the house represented something she fought hard for.
‘I was a very poor single mother before this,’ Hall, 49, told the Daily Mail while sitting in her living room.
‘I lived in a housing project when Ansley was tiny. I worked my butt off for this house.’
Now Hall has until August 1 to find and buy a new home she can afford – and move her furniture, dogs, cats, chickens, and 20 koi fish out of the property she thought she would someday leave to her granddaughter.
Brown said she had never heard of the multibillion-dollar industrial projects tied to the AI boom that are popping up all over the US until representatives from Georgia Power began showing up in the area about a year ago to conduct surveys and assessments.
This just isn’t right.