2026-07-13T12:48:00-0400 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
作者：香农·卢伊布兰德
更新于：2026年7月13日 / 美国东部时间中午12:49 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
卖掉你的房子，否则州政府将收回它——这是佐治亚州一些房主在人工智能热潮中面临的最后通牒。
公用事业巨头佐治亚电力公司计划新建一条输电线路，部分用于为新建的数据中心供电。该公司估计，新线路上70%至80%的电力将用于数据中心，剩余20%至30%的电力将满足该州日益增长的住宅和商业用电需求。
据该公司介绍，不断增长的电力需求已经超过了现有电网的承载能力，新建输电线路需要收购超过300块土地，其中包括住宅房产。
安斯利·布朗表示，她5岁或6岁时建成的童年故居就是受影响的房产之一。
“这是我们的家，”她告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻记者，“这是我们的家人，我们属于这里。”
布朗说，她的母亲原本希望这套房产成为“真正的世代传承财富”，并补充道，如今“它正被从我们手中夺走”。
“这就是盗窃”
布朗的母亲最近与佐治亚电力公司达成了卖房协议。布朗表示，如果她不同意，该公用事业公司可以通过征用权收购房产——这是一项法律程序，允许为被认定符合公共利益的项目有偿征用私有财产。
“在我们看来，这就是盗窃。一家市值数十亿美元的公司从无力反抗的普通人手中抢走土地，我们没有钱和佐治亚电力公司打官司，”布朗说道。
佐治亚电力公司发言人霍莉·洛维特表示，征用权“始终……是我们的最后手段，我们永远不想走到那一步”。
该公司称其一直在负责任地推进相关流程，但布朗对此并不认同。
“你不可能在佐治亚州农村地区拆除35英里的线路而不对某些事物或某些人造成伤害。声称你是以数据中心的名义这么做，这是对我们、我们的社区和我们的动物们的公然侮辱，”她说道。
几个月前，布朗将自己的经历发布到TikTok上，并开始分享其他处境相似的人的故事。她说，虽然她知道拯救自己的家已经为时已晚，但她不希望其他人也遭遇同样的事情。
“我妈妈想要一个道歉。她想要佐治亚电力公司的道歉，仅此而已，”布朗说道，“整整一年来，他们一直在欺凌她，却没有一句歉意。所以这就是我们想要的。我们想要佐治亚电力公司的道歉。”
当被问及该公用事业公司是否愿意道歉时，佐治亚电力公司告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，他们“一直努力保持透明，以诚意进行谈判”，并“尽可能简化整个流程”。
至于数据中心的投资方是谁，该公司表示，出于安全和安保考虑，不会公布客户名单。
Georgia family says they’re forced to sell home to help power AI data centers: “It’s theft”
2026-07-13T12:48:00-0400 / CBS News
By Shannon Luibrand
Updated on: July 13, 2026 / 12:49 PM EDT / CBS News
Sell your home, or the state will take it — that’s the ultimatum some homeowners in Georgia say they are facing amid the AI boom.
Utility giant Georgia Power is planning to build a new transmission line to in part help power new data centers. It estimates 70-80% of the power on the new line will help serve data centers and the remaining 20-30% of power will serve the state’s growing residential and commercial demand.
According to the company, increasing demand has outpaced the capacity of its existing grid and building a new transmission line requires acquiring more than 300 parcels of land, including residential properties.
Ansley Brown’s childhood home that she said was built when she was 5 or 6 years old is just one of the properties impacted.
“It’s ours,” she told CBS News. “It’s our family. We belong here.”
Her mother wanted the property to serve as “true generational wealth,” Brown said, adding that now “it’s being stripped from us.”
“It’s theft”
Brown’s mother recently came to an agreement with Georgia Power to sell. If she didn’t, Brown said the utility could have sought to acquire the property through eminent domain — which is a legal process that allows private property to be taken, with compensation, for projects determined to serve a public purpose.
“To us it’s theft. It’s literally a billion dollar company stealing land from smaller people, people who can’t fight back. We don’t have the money to fight Georgia Power,” Brown said.
Holly Lovett, a spokesperson for Georgia Power, said eminent domain “is always … a last resort for us and it’s something we never want to do.”
The company said it feels as if it’s done the process responsibly, but Brown disagrees.
“You can’t tear down 35 miles of rural Georgia and it not hurt something or somebody. And to say that you’re doing it in the name of data centers is a slap in the face to us, our community, our animals,” she said.
A few months ago Brown took her story to TikTok and began sharing stories of others in similar situations. She said that while she knows it’s too late to save her home, she doesn’t want to see this happen to others.
“My mom wants an apology. She wants an apology from Georgia Power. That’s it,” Brown said. “For an entire year, they have bullied her and there is no sorry. So that’s what we want. We want an apology from Georgia Power. “
When asked if the utility company is willing to apologize, Georgia Power told CBS News they “have worked hard to be transparent, negotiate in good faith” and “make the process as easy as possible.”
As for who is behind the data centers, the company said it doesn’t publish lists of customers to protect safety and security.
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