Three roundtable groups weighed options Saturday during the first of three public discussions about data centers being held at different Statesboro venues. But if participants decided anything, it was only for themselves. Open to everyone, the next will be held 9 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 22, in the Statesboro Home Builders Association building, 1223 Merchants Way. Then the third and final installment in this "deliberative discussion series" is scheduled for 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 27, in the Jones-Love Cultural Center at Luetta Moore Park, 121 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. The Institute for Vibrant and Engaged Communities, or IVEC, from Georgia Southern University is hosting the series, "Weighing the Options: Data Centers in Our Community." The first session started at 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 17, in the Honey Bowen Building at Memorial Park on Fair Road. About 20 people or one or two more, including the organizers, showed up. "At the Institute for Vibrant and Engaged Communities, we believe community engagement is an important part of community governance, and so we have created these forums because this is an issue that is important to the community," said IVEC Director Candice Bodkin, Ph.D. "We're personally concerned that there's not good conversation or dialogue that's happening around concerns about data centers." As she noted, citizens speaking at formal hearings such as those of the Bulloch County Board of Commissioners or Statesboro City Council often are assigned three or…
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