Data centers servicing the flourishing digital information processing industry are finding mixed welcomes as they search for business locations across the Rural South.
Job-hungry economic developers have rendered heartfelt receptions and laid out huge cakes for the entrepreneurs at public gatherings. City and county officials have OK’d rezoning requests and issued proclamations heralding companies seeking large landholdings for such projects.
However, in metropolitan Atlanta, the South’s population and commercial centerpiece, the greetings are wearing a little thin…