Effingham County Data Center Deal Discount

Georgia Power to serve OpenAI project in Effingham County

As Georgia continues to grow and attract new investment and jobs, Georgia Power continues to work to ensure that growth benefits all Georgia Power customers. Today, AI research and deployment company OpenAI announced its plans for a new project in Effingham County, Georgia – about 45 minutes outside of Savannah – which will be served […] The post Georgia Power to serve OpenAI project in Effingham County appeared first on AllOnGeorgia.

Effingham County data center deal discount

Newly uncovered documents reveal how Effingham County officials quietly negotiated a 37.5 percent tax break and a decade-long timeline for an OpenAI data center months before the project went public.

Open AI comes to Effingham

Project Camellia, a planned 1,400-acre data center campus at the Savannah Gateway Industrial Hub, was announced July 22 and followed by a public information open house the next day. Transparency concerns dominated that meeting, with residents saying they felt blindsided and questioning why there had been no public meetings or votes before the project was announced.

How OpenAI project moved forward without public input

When OpenAI announced plans for a $20 billion data center campus in Effingham County, many residents had the same question: How did a project of this size get this far before the public knew about it?

How OpenAI's Effingham Data Center Moved Forward Without Public Input

How years of land deals, zoning and NDAs shaped OpenAI's Effingham data center project.