July 22 : Southern Company's subsidiary said on Wednesday it has signed a 25-year power supply agreement with OpenAI for a new project in Effingham County, Georgia.AI's explosive growth is straining power grids, forcing utilities and tech giants to negotiate who bears the cost and risk as data centers balloon

The campus near Savannah would receive 3.2 gigawatts of power and create hundreds of long-term jobs, according to local officials.

OpenAI's $20B Project Camellia will build a 1,400-acre AI data center in Georgia consuming 3.2 GW of power, with implications for decentralized