To deliver it, the company needs hundreds of miles of new high-voltage transmission lines. In Coweta and Fayette counties, those lines are going straight through people’s backyards, pools and, like Brown, childhood homes.

At least 330 properties total are in the path of Project Wansley, a new 35-mile transmission corridor that Georgia Power says is critical to meeting surging electricity demand driven by the AI boom. 

Of that sum, between 20 and 30 homes are expected to be demolished outright, with hundreds of other landowners being asked to hand over permanent easements that would plant 500-kilovolt power towers feet from their bedroom windows. At least four data centers are directly tied to or supported by the line.

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“Georgia Power is authorized to exercise eminent domain in specific circumstances through state law,"

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