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OpenAI is spending $30 billion on a new mega 3.2 GW data center in Georgia — and it's trying really hard to…

OpenAI has announced a 3.2 gigawatt AI data center in Georgia
The campus will be built on an existing industrially-zoned warehouse project
OpenAI has laid out four commitments to the local community

OpenAI is planning to build a new $30 billion AI data center campus in Effingham County, Georgia, that will deliver 3.2 gigawatts of compute once fully operational.

The site, named ‘Project Camellia’, will span 1,400 acres and is expected to be completed in phases between 2028 and 2032. The construction will take place on a pre-existing industrially-zoned warehouse project in the Savannah Gateway Industrial Hub.

But OpenAI’s announcement significantly differs from previous data center announcements, with the focus being on how the project will benefit the local community, rather than the added capacity and compute it will offer to OpenAI’s models.

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