New Delhi, July 14 -- ATLANTA - Ansley Brown describes the surveyors walking her mother's property as theft. "It's ours. It's our family," she told CBS News. "It's being stripped from us." Georgia Power is building a new transmission line. By the utility's own account, 70 to 80 percent of the power it will carry goes to data centers.

That ratio has become the center of a property rights dispute affecting more than 300 separate parcels across rural Georgia. Some owners have accepted the utility's offer. Others are fighting. Brown's mother, facing the prospect of formal eminent domain proceedings against a billion-dollar company, eventually accepted the terms to avoid the process entirely. The fight was not one she felt she could win.

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