OpenAI's Project Camellia Was on Georgia Power's Radar Months Before Its Debut
PSC filings show Georgia Power planning for a 3,200 MW commitment months before OpenAI unveiled its 3.2 GW AI campus.
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Utility commission filings show that Georgia Power recorded a major power commitment months before OpenAI publicly announced its large AI campus project, providing rare public documentation of how massive infrastructure projects enter utility planning secretly before their debut. The filings reveal an anonymized project matching the announced campus specifications and development timeline, demonstrating how utilities incorporate confidential large-load customers into long-term forecasts and resource planning years in advance. A single campus of this scale influences utility planning for generation resources, transmission investments, and load forecasts across the entire electrical grid. The discovery illustrates the gap between when hyperscale AI infrastructure begins shaping utility systems and when the public learns about these projects.
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