After its regular meeting last week, the Development Authority of Bryan County board shot down a potential land sale to a company interested in building a data center in Richmond Hill. "The consensus of the DABC board is that it is not willing to sell the property to LN Compute," Ryan Purvis, CEO of the DABC wrote in an email to the company, Oct. 13, that was shared with the Bryan County News. This Board consensus came after an executive session during its Oct. 13 meeting. Purvis said this was his first time discussing the inquiry with the board. Purvis first received an email from the Georgia-based digital infrastructure and Bitcoin mining company on Oct. 1. Eric Yao, the CEO of LN Compute Inc. emailed the Development Authority about interest in buying a roughly 19-acre parcel, owned by the authority, at 901 Commerce Dr. in the Belfast Commerce Park, to build a Artificial Intelligence/High Performance Computing data center. Purvis didn't respond to the inquiry until after meeting with the board, Tuesday. Yao also sent an inquiry to Brian Crooks, the Richmond Hill planning and zoning director, Oct. 1, about the city's data center use allowances and zoning requirements for the site. The summary of the proposed data center read it would be a 30-megawatt facility, a single-phase build, an approximately $150-million capital investment, create 20 permanent job positions, and have no process emissions and no cryptocurrency mining. Yao wrote that the facility "would use closed-loop…
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