To stream 13WMAZ on your phone, you need the 13WMAZ app. Example video title will go here for this video Example video title will go here for this video FORSYTH, Ga. — Georgia lawmakers ended this year’s session without passing any major new data center regulations, leaving existing tax breaks and utility rules in place as counties across the state continue to deal with new development proposals. The debate centered on several bills that took different approaches to the same issue: how to handle the fast growth of large data centers, who should pay for the power infrastructure they require, and whether the state should continue offering tax incentives to the industry. One of the main bills was Senate Bill 34, which targeted electric rates. The measure would have prohibited utilities from passing costs tied to commercial data centers onto other customers unless those charges were recovered solely or mostly from the data centers themselves. The bill defined a commercial data center as a facility or group of interconnected facilities used to process, store, retrieve or transmit data and with a peak demand of 100 megawatts or more. SB 34 moved through the Legislature but did not become
