When a Small Town Gets a Big Data Center

当一座小镇迎来大数据中心

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2025-02-28

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The Hopeful Primitive Baptist Church in Fayetteville, Georgia, has been standing for two hundred years. Now, with a huge, private equity-backed data center coming to town, it will soon be surrounded by towering power poles — and power lines will run through the yards of more than a hundred homes and private properties. Today on the show, energy reporter Josh Saul reports on the AI boom, the demand it’s creating for data centers, and what it looks like on the ground in the communities where those are being built. Plus, the pastor from Hopeful Primitive Baptist talks about the community’s response. Read more: Blackstone’s Data-Center Ambitions School a City on AI Power Strains See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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  • Bloomberg Audio Studios Podcasts Radio news Today.

  • We'Re headed to Fayetteville, Georgia, just south of Atlanta.

  • And our first stop is the Hopeful Primitive Baptist church.

  • This small one room chapel has been standing for 200 years.

  • When you walk in that door, you feel the history.

  • I mean, you can see the top hats and tails.

  • You can see the regalia of the time.

  • You can see the horses in the, in, in there, in the, in what is now the parking lot.

  • Scott Johnson is the pastor there and a longtime resident of the area.

  • It's close enough to the city to be close enough to the city,

  • but far enough away to be far enough away.

  • We love Fayetteville and it's a very special place.

  • Yeah, you know, it's a small town.

  • For a long time it's been a bedroom community.

  • A lot of people commuting to Atlanta, you know, working for Delta.

  • People choose it because it's, because it's pretty, a nice, quiet town.

  • Bloomberg reporter Josh Saul covers energy and that's what drew his attention to Fayetteville,

  • along with another one of our colleagues, Don Lim.

  • And then the reason we're interested in it is that Blackstone came knocking.

  • Blackstone, the world's largest private equity firm.