OpenAI's $750B climate cliffhanger: gas turbines for AGI
openai committed $750b to infrastructure by 2030, starting with a $20b georgia campus powered largely by natural gas, doubling the state's fossil fuel capacity.
openai increased its infrastructure commitment to $750b through 2030, launching project camellia, a $20b georgia data center campus requiring 3.2gw of power. georgia power plans to meet this demand primarily with natural gas, adding 5.8gw of new fossil fuel capacity that will double its gas fleet and impact local air quality. this signals that agi development may proceed with heavy carbon reliance, despite clean energy pledges, as openai leverages tax abatements and grid curtailment agreements to scale compute.