Georgia Trend Daily – May 6, 2025
May 6, 2025 Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
Georgia Power wants ‘mind boggling’ amounts of energy. Where will it come from?
Kala Hunter and Margaret Walker report that weeks before public interveners are due to testify over Georgia Power’s energy plan, experts and critics have raised concern with Georgia Public Service commissioners over how the state’s largest utility company has proposed to meet a historic demand for energy. Every three years, Georgia Power is supposed to lay out 20 years of projected energy growth and how they plan to meet that growth over a months-long deliberation process between the company and advocates who question their plan in front of energy regulators.
May 6, 2025 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
Investing in the TOUR Championship drives Metro-Atlanta community impact
Julia Roberts reports, the PGA TOUR drives positive impact at unprecedented levels to support the local communities in which it plays. Atlanta’s own TOUR Championship within the Metro-Atlanta area serves as an incredible example of how good community citizens can make a lasting impact.
May 6, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Data center developer plans Georgia campus worth at least $16B, CEO says
Zachary Hansen reports, a data center developer announced plans to build one of Georgia’s largest computer server farms, a 20-building campus that will require more power than one of Plant Vogtle’s nuclear reactors. T5 Data Centers is pursuing a 1.2-gigawatt campus on an undisclosed site in Georgia, the company’s CEO, Pete Marin, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in an interview Monday.
May 6, 2025 Fox Theatre
Applications for the Fox Theatre’s All-Access Pass 2025–2026 close this Friday, May 9.
Staff reports that All-Access Pass, part of the Fox Gives initiative, gives high school juniors and seniors from Title I schools across Georgia an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at careers in the performing arts. Think lights, sound, stagecraft, marketing — the full showbiz experience.
May 6, 2025 Savannah Morning News
Hyundai’s metaplant jobs commitment clarified following grand opening confusion
Joseph Schwartzburt reports that Hyundai has clarified that it has entered into two joint venture battery plant projects as follows: One on the Bryan County Megasite in partnerships with LG Solutions, which is referred to as HL-GA Battery Company and one with SK On battery of America for a site in Bartow County which is slated to open by the end of 2025.
May 6, 2025 GlobalAtlanta.com
Czech Aerospace Firm Opens Jet Engine Factory in Roswell
Trevor Williams reports that a Czech company that committed to invest up to $20 million in Roswell has produced its first engine at a facility that opened within three months of announcing plans to locate in the city. PBS Aerospace anticipates the new plant to be the first of many expansions, both locally and across the United States as it boosts sales to the U.S. Department of Defense.
May 6, 2025 Marietta Daily Journal
Pence Named President of Chattahoochee Technical College
Staff reports that Technical College System of Georgia has named Heather Pence president of Chattahoochee Technical College. Pence brings more than 20 years of experience within TCSG, most recently serving as interim president and executive vice president for operations at Chattahoochee Tech.
May 6, 2025 Macon Telegraph
Most GA school districts opted out of tax break. New law gives chances to change course
Myracle Lewis reports that nearly 70% of Georgia’s 180 public school districts opted out of House Bill 581, a new statewide homestead exemption law created to provide property tax relief for homeowners, according to latest data from the Secretary of State’s office. Voters approved the law during last year’s general election to cap property tax increases on the assessed value of homestead properties at the rate of inflation, with school districts given a one-time chance to opt out by March 1.
May 6, 2025 GPB
Gov. Kemp is officially out of the running for U.S. Senate
Sarah Kallis reports that Gov. Brian Kemp announced Monday that he will not run for U.S. Senate in 2026, leaving the Republican primary to challenge Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff wide open. Kemp said in a statement posted to the social media website X that running for Senate is “not the right decision” for him and his family.
May 6, 2025 Georgia Recorder
Another ethics complaint filed against conservative lobbying group with influence at Georgia Capitol
Ross Williams reports that an influential conservative lobbying group has allegedly failed to file the proper disclosures in connection with advertisements for Gov. Brian Kemp and Lt. Gov. Burt Jones in the 2022 election, according to a complaint filed with the State Ethics Commission. Frontline Policy Action is an evangelical 501(c)(4) organization that successfully lobbied during the 2025 Legislative session for bills including the so-called Religious Freedom Restoration Act and a ban on transgender women and girls playing on women’s school sports teams.
May 6, 2025 Capitol Beat News
Josh McLaurin running for lieutenant governor
Dave Williams reports, State Sen. Josh McLaurin, D-Sandy Springs, announced Monday that he will run for lieutenant governor next year, promising a campaign focused on fighting President Donald Trump’s agenda. McLaurin, a lawyer, was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives in 2018 before moving over to the state Senate in 2022.
May 6, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Republicans fret about a possible Marjorie Taylor Greene run for Senate
Greg Bluestein, Tia Mitchell, Patricia Murphy and Adam Beam report, there are at least a half-dozen Republicans seriously considering a U.S. Senate run now that Gov. Brian Kemp has said he won’t challenge Democratic incumbent Jon Ossoff. But only one name has GOP leaders in both Georgia and Washington on edge.
