OpenAI is planning a massive data center campus, dubbed Project Camellia, in Effingham County, Georgia, located within the Savannah Gateway Industrial Hub near Savannah.
Expected to cost between $20 billion and upwards of $30 billion, the self-developed site will feature four data center buildings spanning 4.4 million square feet. OpenAI has contracted with Georgia Power Company to deliver electricity in phases between 2028 and 2032, pledging to cover all related infrastructure and power service costs to ensure local utility rates do not rise.
To minimize environmental and grid impacts, the facility will use a closed-loop water system for cooling and provide up to 1 GW in flexible demand response during peak periods. Alongside bringing tax revenue and thousands of construction and permanent jobs to the region, OpenAI has committed $80 million to a local community fund and up to $71 million in Codex AI credits for Georgia college and technical students.
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Alongside large AI training clusters, OpenAI and Anthropic are exploring smaller data center deployments. The companies are discussing 20–30MW capacity deals, likely for inference workloads. OpenAI has held talks with data center operators in the US and Nordics, while Anthropic has explored...
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September 11, 2026 OpenAI
OpenAI has hired senior executive Yvette Eden Ruiz to join its growing Community Engagement team as opposition to data center development intensifies. Ruiz joins from JPMorgan Chase, where she spent 12 years. She announced her new role on LinkedIn. "I hesitated to post this, in part because the...
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August 27, 2026 OpenAI
The Georgia Public Service Commission has approved a power supply agreement between Georgia Power and OpenAI for its planned data center in Effingham County. Under the deal, Georgia Power will add 3.2GW of generation capacity, with OpenAI covering the full infrastructure costs. The type of...
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August 26, 2026 OpenAI
Chris Malone has left OpenAI after 18 months as head of data centers, amid several recent executive departures and changes within the company’s data center team. Malone joined OpenAI from Meta, where he spent nearly five years as a distinguished engineer. Before that, he worked at Google for...
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July 27, 2026 Georgia
A gigawatt-scale data centre campus is planned near Atlanta, Georgia. Developer Stillwater Development has filed a Development of Regional Impact application for the Stillwater Technology Park in Lovejoy, around 25 miles (40km) south of downtown Atlanta. The proposed campus at 11760 Panhandle...
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