They’re fighting datacenters in rural Georgia – and hope to inspire other communities (opens in new tab)

Coweta county could become third in state history to stage referendum, letting residents challenge a policy or decisionA post-church downpour didn’t deter hundreds of people from showing up at Morgan’s Market on a recent Sunday afternoon to sign a petition aimed at giving people in rural Coweta county, Georgia, the chance to vote on a datacenter known as and prohibit other datacenters and cryptocurrency mining operations from moving forward.It was one of about a dozen petition-signing events ...