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Byron Georgia’s Data Center Battle | Macon News
Byron, Georgia, is racing to regulate a potential data center with a new ordinance—setting strict noise caps, requiring massive setbacks from homes and schools, limiting water use, and forcing companies to pay for infrastructure upgrades. Residents flooded council meetings with objections, questioning transparency, calling setbacks too short, and pointing out missing heat emission rules—and even noting the noise limits exceed other Georgia cities. Despite pushback, the council says they’ve adjusted some provisions, while Georgia Power clarified no on-site generators are needed since power…
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