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Project Camellia is a long-term AI infrastructure project that OpenAI is designing and developing in Effingham County.
Project information checked Sep 15, 2026
Effingham County pulled the Project Camellia site plan from its September agenda and told staff to draft binding limits, days before a state report put the data center's power demand at 3,210 megawatts, more than both new reactors at Plant Vogtle combined.
Read update →Georgia's Development of Regional Impact review of Project Camellia, OpenAI's proposed data-center campus in Effingham County, is now complete on the state's own tracking system: the Coastal Georgia Regional Development Commission issued its finding Sept. 1, 2026, with the process marked complete as of Sept. 6.
Read update →City Council froze new large-load data centers for 155 days to rewrite zoning rules, the same week Georgia regulators cleared the power contract for OpenAI's $20 billion Project Camellia campus in neighboring Effingham County.
Read update →Records show Effingham's economic development officials negotiated OpenAI's $20 billion data center tax break under a non-disclosure agreement starting in February, and the public wasn't told until the day after the county signed.
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