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What Should Georgia Require From a Good Data Center Deal?
The question is no longer whether data centers are coming. The question is what communities should demand before saying yes.
The Southeast Is Becoming the Data Center Belt of the AI Era
From Northern Virginia to Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Mississippi, the region is becoming the test ground for how America powers the cloud.
Georgia’s Data Center Boom Has Become a Power and Tax Policy Fight
The state is trying to welcome the AI infrastructure economy while proving that residents will not be left paying the bill.
Metro Atlanta Is Now a Data Center Capital. The Tradeoffs Are Becoming Impossible to Ignore.
Atlanta has become the country's second-largest data center market. The next question is whether the region can manage the boom without losing control of land, power and water decisions.
The Server Boom Comes South
Data centers used to be invisible infrastructure. Now they are one of the biggest technology, energy and land-use stories in Georgia.
Sandy Springs, Dunwoody and Roswell Are Atlanta’s Enterprise Tech Arc
Less startup theater, more operating infrastructure: logistics, market data, insurance, restaurant tech, digital banking, IT services, and the hard lesson of Roswell's GM closure.
Atlanta Technical College Opens Microsoft Datacenter Academy Lab as Georgia’s Data Center Boom Accelerates
The new South Atlanta training facility is backed by Microsoft, TA Realty, and TA Digital Group — and points to a larger question for Georgia's tech economy: who gets trained for the infrastructure jobs AI is creating?
Inside Atlanta Tech’s Hardest Bet: The $140 Million Restoration of South Downtown
David Cummings and Jon Birdsong bought 53 historic buildings out of foreclosure in December 2023. Today the portfolio is closer to 56, the World Cup is six weeks away, and the real test is what's still standing after the crowds leave.
One Atlanta Company Made LinkedIn’s Top 50 for 2026. It’s an Airline.
The 2026 LinkedIn Top Companies list is a useful national benchmark — and a sobering snapshot of where Atlanta's tech ecosystem still doesn't show up.
Downtown Atlanta Spent Forty Years Emptying Out. Now Everyone Is Betting It Comes Back.
A foundational look at the part of the metro tech map that got abandoned — and the universities, Black entrepreneurship institutions, and multi-billion-dollar redevelopments now trying to give Downtown a tech economy for the first time in its history.