Jesse Brooks, who helped push for a data center moratorium in his town. Jesse Brooks When residents of an Atlanta suburb heard a data center may be coming to town, they pushed back. Fayetteville, Georgia, no longer allows new data center construction following local pushback. Here's how Jesse Brooks and his neighbors stopped a data center development. This is an as-told-to essay based on a conversation with Jesse Brooks, a 35-year-old videographer who lives in Fayetteville, Georgia, an Atlanta suburb. It has been edited for length and clarity. The Atlanta area is one of several hot spots for data center development , and the town is home to a hyperscale data center under construction by Blackstone portfolio company QTS since 2022. Earlier this year, Crow Holdings put forward a plan to build another large data center in Fayetteville. After residents raised concerns at a planning and zoning meeting, the data center application was denied.…