SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) – OpenAI is holding a public open house Thursday evening at the Effingham College and Career Academy, one day after announcing a $20 billion data center campus planned for the county. SEE: OpenAI announces plans for a new data center campus in Effingham County The event, running from 6 to 8 p.m., features small group sessions, information tables and recruiters available to speak with the public. OpenAI says the project, called “Project Camellia,” would be a long-term data center campus in Effingham County expected to create at least 400 long-term jobs. The company is behind ChatGPT, and Project Camellia represents its first official step into Georgia. MORE: OpenAI says its AI technology acted on its own in an ‘unprecedented’ hack of another company The company says it plans to establish a “Georgia Community Compact” with an annual independent audit to hold the project accountable. However, when asked, an OpenAI team member did not confirm who would conduct that audit. Public Service Commissioner Alicia Johnson said the issue with data centers is that there was not enough regulation in place during a period of exponential growth in the state. There is no official state registry tracking how many data centers currently operate in Georgia, though more than a hundred are spread across the state. Georgia’s first data center was launched by Google in 2007. It took 18 more years before the first center dedicated to artificial intelligence was built. Dozens more…
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