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Utility board to continue negotiations on regional data-center subscription after members raise long-term risk concerns
Summary
The board authorized staff to continue negotiating a possible subscription to a nearby data-center project but delayed final commitment, seeking financial analyses of multi-year terms, revenue splits and different subscription levels.
Mister Jacobs, presenting on behalf of city utility staff, outlined a multi-jurisdictional opportunity for electric cities to subscribe to power for a new data-center campus in Chris County. He said the project envisions a Phase 1 electrical load around 80 megawatts and that the electric-city group has seen roughly 7,000 megawatts of potential data-center demand across Georgia. Jacobs said Chris County would commit 30 megawatts and is seeking other municipalities to subscribe to the remaining capacity; the proposed…
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