JEKYLL ISLAND — An election on the Republican ballot Tuesday goes to the core of two overarching concerns during this election cycle: affordability and data centers.
The five-member Georgia Public Service Commission does not decide whether technology companies can build their data centers, which consume land to house their computer servers, often use water to cool them and consume copious amounts of electricity to power them.
But the elected commission members’ decisions can affect the companies’ cost of doing business by controlling electricity rates and, by extension, the amount of money that regular customers pay to cool, heat and power their homes and businesses.
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