ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — A metro Atlanta film studio wants DeKalb County to allow it to build a data center. Shadowbox Studios filed a lawsuit in August alleging that the county’s moratorium on construction, in effect since July 2025, was illegal. The company said the county had previously given it approval to build the data center and that the company had already spent $30 million on the project. According to documents, Shadowbox Studios will ask the zoning board of appeals on Sept. 9 to reverse the board’s decision to deny the company’s application to build a data center. “The key thing that I’m concerned about is that we’re listening to our constituents. The people need to be heard when it comes to data centers. A lot of people are worried about them. They have a lot of reason and right to be worried because we’ve seen some really awful examples of unchecked data center expansion in neighborhoods around the country, and even here in Georgia,” said Ted Terry, DeKalb County commissioner for Super District 6. DeKalb County residents have until Sept. 3 to email their comments to the DeKalb County Department of Planning and Sustainability. “And what also often happens in politics is the controversial projects, the polluting, the big industrial projects, the ones that are going to cause a lot of health and environmental impacts, end up getting put in Black and Brown neighborhoods,” said Terry. Commissioner Terry said that the proposed center “would just add more…
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