Less than two miles from the property line belonging to Habitat Real Estate Partners, who are working to bring a 650 megawatt hyperscale data center to Columbus, property owner Debbie Jackson has a family cemetery with 22 graves, including her husband, whom she buried in September.
Although 2025 was “very tough,” Jackson said, 2026 has thrown her “for a loop” since she learned the approximately 900 acres in northeast Muscogee County that was sold in November for $4.2 million is the site for the proposed $5.18 billion Project Ruby data center.
Jackson spent most of August last year going to doctor appointments to find out what was wrong with her 68-year-old husband, John. She went on intermittent unpaid family leave from her banking job at Truist, her last of several banking jobs for 41 years in the Columbus area. A month after being informed her husband needed a liver transplant, he died Sept. 10…