Tracing our roots to the fall of 1946, the Southern Economic Development Council is the oldest and largest regional economic development association in North America. We have members in 17 states in the American South, including Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia.
SEDC is a non-profit, 501 (c)(6), membership organization governed by a Board of Directors and Executive Committee. One director is elected by each member state to serve with elected officers on the Board of Directors. Our office is located in Atlanta and managed by a professional staff.
The megatrends of digitization, AI, and cloud services are driving growing demand for data centers. To meet that demand, data centers are increasingly developing in locations that no one would have ever considered before. Data centers are extremely different from other types of development. It will be important to communicate the impacts that they have on local communities. Paige Read and David Zorn will discuss what they have learned as this industry develops.
