Ansley lives in Coweta County, Georgia. She says she posted two TikTok videos exposing how Georgia Power is forcing homeowners off their land to build a huge new data center, and both videos were removed. Her own family is also caught up in the chaos. In a follow-up video that went viral, she said, “You do not have the right to your land. They can come and take that from you. And there will be nobody there to help you.”
Georgia Power is building a 500 kV transmission line that will cut through Coweta, Fayette, Fulton, and Heard counties, affecting more than 330 pieces of property, as per WSB-TV. Georgia Power spokeswoman Holly Lovett told the outlet that some parcels will deal with easements, and 21 families will actually lose their homes.
Georgia Power, as a utility, can use eminent domain if deals with homeowners fall apart, but they claim they would rather work things out peacefully. Construction kicks off in early 2027 and wraps up by mid-2028.
This all ties directly into the data center boom sweeping through rural Georgia. According to Fox 5 Atlanta, Coweta County commissioners voted 3-2 to rezone 829 acres from Rural Conservation to Industrial for what’s called Project Sail. The planned campus will cover 4.34 million square feet – about double the size of the Mall of Georgia – and needs 900 megawatts of power, almost as much as a nuclear reactor.
Atlas Development LLC is behind this $17 billion giant, and Coweta’s commissioners approved the rezoning of an 800-acre forest to make it happen. It’s set to become one of Georgia’s biggest data center campuses.
Ansley says her community stretches across Newnan, Sharpsburg, Grantville, and Moreland. The upheaval isn’t just hitting her family. At least 30 other homeowners are facing the same threat, including elderly residents and folks living on land that has been in their families for ages.
TikTok flagged Ansley’s videos for violating community guidelines, but she insists she didn’t break any rules. “I only came on here to tell the truth about what’s happening in Coweta County, Georgia,” she said.
Internet Reacts To Georgia Woman’s Claim That TikTok Banned Her Data Center Videos
The response online was split between people focused on the property rights issue and those zooming out to the platform’s new ownership. “Who bought TikTok? Larry Ellison,” one commenter wrote. “He’s responsible for the banning of accounts that criticize any of his personal interests.” Another took it further: “The people that own the social media platforms are the same people building these Surveillance Centers. I am surprised they are still letting us voice our opinions in the first place.”
Others focused on the infrastructure fight itself. “Data centers need action taken against them and soon,” one person wrote. “The longer you let it go the harder the damage is going to be to undo.” The frustration with institutional power came through plainly in another comment: “Sorry about your luck. But government and money always wins. Say goodbye to the forest and say hi to legal spying.”
Not everyone was sympathetic to the property rights framing. “Once again for the millionth time,” one commenter wrote, arguing that the land was never truly “claimed” by residents in a legal sense.
One comment zoomed out to the resource demands behind the entire industry: “To get all those data centers up and running they need to mine all the copper we have mined since the beginning of earth’s existence.”
Her complaints about TikTok’s moderation hit at a peculiar time for the platform. TikTok USDS says it hasn’t censored people, and NPR found no proof of intentional content censorship back in February 2026, though researchers say they are watching closely.
Since Oracle’s involvement, and its co-founder Larry Ellison’s ties to Donald Trump, creators are feeling uneasy about TikTok’s moderation decisions. There’s still no clarity whether Ansley’s videos were specifically targeted or caught in a wider sweep by TikTok’s automated system.
