Adam Van Brimmer
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Adam Van Brimmer covers coastal Georgia for the AJC. Adam joined the AJC in 2023 and has previously written for the Savannah Morning News, the Virgin Islands Daily News and the Athens (Ohio) Messenger. Adam has worked in most corners of the newsroom, from sports to business to government and politics. Adam is a 2025 Atlanta Press Club general excellence winner. In a previous role as an opinion page editor, he won the Otis A. Brumby Trophy four times. The annual award goes to Georgia's top opinion columnist by the Georgia Press Association. He is a graduate of Ohio University and grew up in the rural countryside near Columbus, Ohio.
Latest from Adam Van Brimmer
The Savannah City Council plans to vote Thursday on a moratorium on large data centers, joining other municipal and county governments on Georgia's coast. 
(Miguel Martinez/AJC)

Coastal Georgia data center lockdown? Local governments impose moratoriums.

Cumberland Island, Georgia's largest barrier island, is mostly owned and managed by the federal government, but the Candler and Carnegie families have private residences on the island. (Curtis Compton/AJC 2007)

Coca-Cola heirs feuding over family’s Cumberland Island retreat

Could Savannah’s housing crunch be more headache than crisis?

Savannah sprawl: A homebuilding boom reshapes the Georgia coast

Houses on Sapelo Island tend to be modest cottages and mobile homes. (Justin Taylor for the AJC)

New zoning, same dissatisfaction over law dictating Sapelo Island home size

Open AI Datacenter

OpenAI in Georgia: How $20B data center plan secretly took root in Effingham

Tybee Island -Inferno

He traded Atlanta restaurants for a beach shack. He’s never been happier.

Georgia Democratic convention

Changing political winds? Democrats make midterms case at state convention.

International Paper Mill Closure

For sale: 735 acres of Savannah riverfront long home to now-closed paper mill

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The hottest spot in Georgia this summer? Savannah’s cargo container docks.

OpenAI data center open house

Hot topic, cool reception. Residents denounce proposed OpenAI data center.