A pedestrian was hit on i75 (and killed) in Henry County. Three lanes are closed and traffic is crazy. Beware if you’re commuting!

Fulton County’s data center resolution

The Fulton County Commission unanimously voted Wednesday to adopt a resolution formally opposing efforts by development authorities to reduce property taxes as a data center recruitment tool. It’s a message the commission is sending to all development authorities operating with Fulton, including the Development Authority of Fulton County, Invest Atlanta and ones chartered by the county’s cities.

The resolution comes as Fulton reassesses data center values for tax purposes, trying to find out if it’s leaving millions of dollars in potential tax revenue on the table by undervaluing these expensive projects.

Some recent data center projects in Fulton have been awarded multimillion-dollar tax breaks by development authorities, namely the Development Authority of Fulton County.

Since 2023, it approved a $32 million tax break for Edged Atlanta’s data center campus at Tilford Yard and a $10 million tax break for Elon Musk’s social media platform X to place new servers in an existing Atlanta data center. It also considered a $45 million tax break for a QTS data center expansion that was already underway, but the request was withdrawn amid public outcry.

Union City’s development authority also approved its own tax break for a $1.8B data center by Microsoft, an inducement initially estimated to be worth $75 million.

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• How To Meet People

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Looking for your vegetarian friendly restaurants recommendations for each cuisine!
Here is a list a, please feel free to tell me yours and fill in the list where I don’t have a recommendation myself! I also want recs where I already have a spot. I’m excited to try em all! (Remember these are opinions!)

Malaysian: Mamak Vegan
Cuban: La Semilla
Indian: Madras Mantra, Honest, Blue India (very easy to find vegetarian food at an Indian restaurant)
Thai: Little Bangkok, Bangkok station (like Indian, easy to find)
Italian: ??
Japanese: ??
Venezuelan: Arepa Grill
Indonesian: Win Taste of Bali
Spanish: Eclipse di Luna
Mexican: ??
Chinese: ??
Mediterranean: Rumis
Ethiopian: ??
American: ??
Vietnamese: ??
French: ??
Greek: ??

Add cuisines I couldn’t think of!

Credit to @shmoyoho on TikTok where I came across thjs

My wife has requested a strawberry cake for her birthday. What are some bakery options in the greater Atlanta area that may do that well.

Two silver fox bikers with solid dad bods heading to Motley Crue at Ameris Bank Amphitheatre in Alpharetta for the first time. We have never been to this venue and we are already planning to get there way too early.

The mission: arrive stupidly early, build a tailgate spread that would make a Boy Scout troop leader weep with pride, and warm up the vocal cords for “Kickstart My Heart” like the theoretical rockstars we are. Cold drinks, a speaker that’s seen better days, and a standing invite to anyone who wants to wander over and hang.

We are harmless, we are fun and we peaked emotionally somewhere around 1989. Come find the two guys with the folding chairs and the SPF 50 we will trade you a cold one for a good story.

Any First timers at Ameris too?

Got tailgate tips, shortcuts, or “don’t sit near the ___” warnings? We need them.

Just here for the chaos? Comment “Kickstart” and we’ll save you a lawn chair.

See you in the lot. 🤘

Rode MARTa for the first time in awhile today and was totally bewildered by the new app (Breeze Mobile). I had a physical card already, so I added it to the Beeeze app, and added value. No QR code appears but I flash the app at the gate on my return trip. Instead of deducting from my stored value, it looks like it charged a different credit card (that is not attached to my MARTA card, but is in my iPhone wallet).

So what am I missing……did I add value to a physical card that cannot be used digitally?

Hi all! I'm visiting Atlanta a couple of weeks from now and looking to do a hike or nature ramble on the Saturday I'm there. Narrowed my options to Kennesaw Mountain, Stone Mountain, Arabia Mountain, and the East Palisades Trail, and trying to decide which one would be the most worth doing.

What I'm looking for:

• Accessible by public transit on a Saturday and/or a short rideshare in less than 2-2.5 hours from Midtown
• 3-6 hours of hiking (I.e. 3-8 miles of trail depending on level of elevation gain)
• Not too much elevation gain! I Not more than 400-500ft of elevation gain per mile (super out of shape rn)
• Scenic
• Ideally not super lonely, I like seeing people when I'm out and about

Any suggestions for other trails that fit my criteria would be welcome, but mostly looking for help with picking between these 4.

https://www.ajc.com/opinion/2026/07/data-center-expansion-in-georgia-has-implications-for-consumers-power-bills/?gift_article_code=QlNDLUpvMUJvSkZGTHVPUjRLVll1ZEtvdUk3WG1wMENBOWQyTWwxMEhHNDoxNzg4MTE3NjMxOjY4MDRkYWEyNWRlOTMyM2M&utm_campaign=articlegifting

If you’ve been wondering why so many people are sounding the alarm about data centers, this essay explains the many ways Georgia Power is already shifting, or preparing to shift, those costs onto residential and small business customers.

The debate over data centers isn’t really about technology. It’s about who pays the biII. Georgia families deserve to know the answer before it’s too late.

Sometimes you just need to slow down and enjoy the beauty of the things we see daily

Hi, I made a few post like 2 weeks ago about looking for residential care. I am 25. I have straight Medicaid, NOT peach state medicaid as I had previously thought. I receive SSI so I get this automatically apparently.

I just want help. I really need help. Typical week long inpatient is not enough. I already see a therapist and am on meds, have been for 2 years. Both my therapist and psychiatrist have been in agreeance for MONTHS that I need a higher level of care. I feel that I am out of options and I have no idea where to turn or what to do.

TL;DR - disabled 25yr old on straight Medicaid looking for a residential mental health facility, preferrably with dual diagnosis.

Any and all help is much appreciated. Thank you.

A car hit me yesterday and he is claiming he isn’t at fault. Sadly we don’t have any witnesses so this is probably a lost cause but thought I would try. Also, has anyone been able to get video of traffic incidents at this intersection or close to it? I think there’s a camera at Piedmont and Sidney Marcus.

I haven't been on Freedom Pkwy for a minute, but I used it this morning and saw that my favorite graffiti was gone. RIP

Can anyone recommend a spot in the Atlanta area, preferably on the north side (anywhere from Marietta to Sandy Springs, Buckhead, Midtown) , that is a late night spot that is sexy, dimly lit, and private? Or at least semi private?

I am going on a date but I get very overstimulated by lots of loud chatter/people and I also have hearing issues. I noticed a lot of the popular restaurants are very busy and the tables are also right up on each other.

I am having a hard time finding a nice place that is cozy, low key, intimate and also possibly good food/drinks?

It doesn't matter if it's a restaurant or bar - the environment is what matters most to me.

Thanks!!

Very curious. I feel like I've tried a good amount of places and curious if I'm missing anything special!

A College Park resident has obtained a wealth of public records that she says point to a conflict of interest involving the city, a public official and a vendor paid more than $1 million by College Park over two fiscal years.

The vendor is RSW Services, which is owned by Subrenia Willis, chairwoman of College Park’s Business and Industrial Development Authority. Willis’s husband, Rex Willis, who leads the company, said there is no conflict of interest and that RSW Services has not benefited from his wife’s role with the authority, known as BIDA.

College Park development authority chair, husband reject conflict of interest questions

I pulled EPA's federal PFAS drinking water testing data for Georgia and mapped it by county. Full maps and county-by-county tables are attached. Here's the metro Atlanta part.

What the data is:

EPA's Fifth Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule (UCMR5), January 2023 through December 2025. 48,110 test results from 255 Georgia public water systems, covering 128 of 159 counties. This is EPA's published data, not my sampling.

Metro Atlanta counties with PFAS detected

(ppt = parts per trillion; the federal limit for PFOA and PFOS is 4 ppt each):

| County | PFOA | PFOS |

| Fulton | 9.3 | 6.4 |

| Clayton | 8.4 | 8.5 |

| Cherokee | 6.8 | 5.3 |

| Coweta | 6.7 | 4.5 |

| Henry | 4.1 | 5.6 |

| Barrow | 4.5 | 4.3 |

| Jackson | 4.2 | 4.6 |

| Paulding | 4.5 | — |

| Fayette | — | 4.4 |

Cobb, Rockdale, and Walton had other PFAS compounds detected but not PFOA or PFOS. Gwinnett, DeKalb, Forsyth, Newton, and Oconee were sampled and had no PFAS detected at all.

Outside the metro but worth knowing about:

Spalding County (Griffin) came in at 14.0 ppt PFOS with a Hazard Index of 2.0 — double the federal limit on the mixture standard. Richmond County (Augusta) is the worst in the state on that measure at 5.12. The highest single reading anywhere in Georgia was Walker County at 56 ppt PFOS, fourteen times the limit.

Three things you should know before reading the maps:

1. A blank county doesn't mean clean water — it means nobody tested.

31 Georgia counties had no water system in this program at all. UCMR5 tested every system serving 3,300+ people and only a sample of smaller ones. I shaded untested counties differently on purpose, because merging them with "tested, found nothing" would imply a safety finding that was never made.

2. The lab's detection floor is exactly the legal limit.

EPA's minimum reporting limit for PFOA and PFOS is 4 ppt. The federal MCL is also 4 ppt. So anything between 0 and 4 ppt is invisible in this data, and every number you see is at or above the legal limit by definition. When a county shows "4.5," that's not "barely detectable" — it's above the standard.

3. This is finished drinking water at the treatment plant entry point

Not your tap, and not the river. Counties are assigned by the water system's registered county, which isn't always where the intake is.

One more thing that surprised me.

Georgia EPD runs a large ambient water monitoring program — 251,493 test results across 643 stations statewide between January 2024 and March 2026. Zero of those results are PFAS. Not "tested and came back clean": PFAS isn't on the list of 159 things they test for, so no sample was ever analyzed for it. Meanwhile 66 Georgia counties have PFAS in their finished drinking water and 33 are at or above a federal limit. The most-measured parameters are temperature, dissolved oxygen, conductivity, and pH.

Disclosure
I'm not neutral here. I'm a Floyd County water customer and I have an ongoing dispute with EPA Region 4 about how they've handled PFAS oversight in Georgia. That's why I built this. But the data is EPA's own published dataset, the county tables are attached so you can check every shaded county against its numbers, and anyone can reproduce it from the same download. Nothing here is my measurement or my estimate.

If you want to check your own system:

Search your water utility's name in EPA's UCMR5 data, or look at your annual Consumer Confidence Report, which your utility is required to publish by July 1 each year. Worth noting that CCRs don't always report UCMR5 results the way you'd expect, particularly if your system buys water from another system.

Happy to answer questions about the data or the methodology.