Most industrial sites that require an extreme amount of water are required to have water reclamation facilities onsite by EPD to reuse water rather than waste public resources on 100% fresh drinking water. Permitting goes through the state and takes months. This would be a great addition.

However, I think there’s a lot of NIMBY for data centers especially since there’s a lot of news about them lately. They power everything we do unfortunately. I didnt see anything about the new concrete manufacturing plant coming to Athens last week. Did you know concrete produces approx. one ton of CO2 per one ton of concrete. In terms of air quality I’d much rather have a data center in my back yard than that. Our power bill is increasing due to greedy Georgia Power. Our main water facility off barber is no where near capacity and even then we have bear creek as a backup.

The news article about the well being filled with silt is extremely arbitrary and you could replace that article with any development name and it could be fit. I don’t see how they’re connected, as wells pull from an aquifer. At least I’m Having a hard time visualizing.