OpenAI's Project Camellia is a long-term Effingham County proposal with a company-stated 3.2 GW Georgia Power contract scheduled for phased delivery from 2028 to 2032 and a stated closed-loop cooling design. The capacity remains planned project/power context; final utility service, energized capacity, IT load, water and wastewater quantities, and public-funding amounts remain unresolved.
ProposedconfirmedMedium concern
Site Snapshot
Location
Rincon, Effingham County, Georgia
Operator / sponsor
OpenAI
Status / stage
Proposed · approval / land-use
Scale
3200 MW reported; Mega campus (>1,000 MW); roughly 1,400-acre project site inside 2,600-acre Savannah Gateway Industrial Hub; phased 2028-2032
Reported project context; confirm whether any MW figure is requested, approved, energized, IT load, generation, or ultimate buildout before comparing it with another record.Capacity reading: Project-scale context · MW type not established · Site area
Compute Workload
This panel tracks what the facility is for without assuming that every project is AI training, inference, or cloud capacity.
Undisclosed / unknownUnknown
No source-backed workload, customer, hardware, or training/inference allocation is attached to this record yet.
Workload classification remains unknown in the reviewed record.
Data Fields
Source leads point to attached records or reporting. They still need field-level review before being treated as verified evidence.
Source reviewed September 9, 2026: OpenAI says it will pay the full energy and electric-service infrastructure costs required to serve the project; local reporting also describes a reported 50% property-tax abatement and an $80 million community-benefits commitment. These are attributed planned costs, tax effects, or commitments, not proof of spent public money or a verified subsidy amount.
Source reviewed September 9, 2026: OpenAI's Project Camellia materials describe a closed-loop cooling system intended to minimize ongoing water use, but do not publish a facility withdrawal, consumption, service, wastewater, or permit quantity. This is a company-stated design commitment, not measured operating use.
Source reviewed September 9, 2026: OpenAI says it is contracting with Georgia Power for 3.2 GW delivered in phases from 2028 through 2032. The figure is a planned utility-service contract and the dataset's 3,200 MW remains planned project/power context, not energized or operating IT load; the source does not publish a separate facility IT-load allocation.
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