Published 1:54 pm Thursday, July 30, 2026 VALDOSTA — It’s official: data centers are set to be welcome in Lowndes County, but not without a fight. The Lowndes County Board of Commissioners hosted a data center information session on Jul. 28 following the regular meeting. During this meeting, representatives from the community and the Commissioners spoke to citizens packed shoulder-to-shoulder in the meeting room about the prospects of a data center and what requirements are being written into an ordinance to combat major concerns. The immediate takeaways from this is that there are allegedly no data centers planned for the area, and if any interested parties come to Lowndes County in order to create one, they will have to wait until the ordinance is finalized. The main concern for a data center in the area was the recent purchase of M-1 (light manufacturing) zoned property by Pope Langdale, which raised questions about what the land would be used for. Allegedly, this will not be a data center, though the exact business planned is unknown. The ordinance for control on data centers stems from consistent and ever-expanding protests against the building of data centers in Lowndes County as a whole. Led by the group Lowndes Citizens Against Data Centers, (LCAD) this ordinance is the first step to respond to the wave of dissent against data centers and their effects on the cities and counties they are built in. Dr. Michael Noll, a retired Valdosta State University professor…
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