Published 9:28 am Tuesday, August 25, 2026 MOULTRIE — Data centers have been a controversial topic over the past years and, even more so today, as more and more of them have been built across the U.S. Some of the controversy seems to stem from the general lack of knowledge about them on the part of the public-at-large. Senior Economic Developer Alan Durham of Georgia Tech’s Center for Economic Development Research was brought in by local entities to help them better understand the topic of data centers. He gave his presentation Aug. 13 at SRTC. At the very start of the presentation, Moultrie-Colquitt County Development Authority Board Chairman Ross Dekle clarified that the meeting was for training information only. “We want to be as informed as we can. Not informed from Facebook but informed with real factual information and Alan’s prepared to give us that,” he said. Durham said there are four main types of data centers and the first was the enterprise data center, which was built and owned by a private company for their private use. “So, Delta has their own enterprise system. They don’t colocate, they don’t share their data centers. It’s theirs, it’s built for their staff. The same with Home Depot, Target or Walmart, AT&T,” he said. He said the next type was colocation, which he said was building a data center and then letting people come in and rent out space in the center. He explained that the owner of the colocation data centers provided power, security, cooling, and…
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