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Southern Company has added 6 GW of large load contracts since the first quarter of 2026, bringing its total contracted large load to 17 GW across its territory, company executives said during its second-quarter earnings call last week.
Recently announced projects include Georgia Power’s 3.2-GW, 25-year contract with OpenAI for a data center site near Savannah, Georgia.
Southern CEO Chris Womack told investors the project should begin taking electric service in 2028 and includes 1 GW of “flexible demand response” for peak shaving — the first such flexibility provision the utility has codified with a data center customer.
“The OpenAI contract in Georgia pushes us beyond our recently approved capacity by right around 1 GW,” he added later in response to an analyst question.
