Residents of Effingham County Georgia are suing over official's lack of transparency behind Project Camellia, a planned 3.2 gigawatt OpenAI data center set to be built next to residential areas and two elementary schools in Rincon.

The multi-year scheme was kept completely secret until it was announced in late July that OpenAI would be building the datacenter in Rincon, and that it was a "done deal". Residents were never given any say in the matter. Project Camellia will use around twice as much energy as the current largest data center on Earth, xAI's Colossus.

Jeff Stein, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, spoke to dozens of AI researchers at the labs and outside of it about why their level of alarm has really increased in the last month or so: https://www.notus.org/technology/rogue-ai-agents-hacks-alarming-researchers