NEWS: Georgia Power and OpenAI are teaming up on a $30B data center. 🤝

The details: Georgia Power will provide the electrons for OpenAI’s 3.2-GW data center, which is slated to fully ramp up by 2032. This agreement comes with grid protections: During high demand, the facility will curb its consumption. OpenAI will also offer up to 1 GW of flexible demand response. 

Who’s paying? The companies cut straight to the chase. “Georgia families will not subsidize this project. OpenAI will pay all infrastructure and electric-service costs,” OpenAI wrote on X. Why? Georgia PSC rules (implemented in 2025) prohibit passing those costs onto ratepayers. OpenAI also says the facility will provide $80M in community benefits. 

Speaking of ratepayer protections: 250+ utilities and cooperatives have signed President Trump’s (non-binding) pledge to prevent AI cost-shifting, covering 80% of all power delivered to US homes and businesses. The signatories include NextEra, Duke, and Southern Co., as we previously reported.