$1 billion investment from Georgia Tech and Emory bets big on AI
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← Back to the caseMitsubishi to spend $490M, add 220 jobs in Georgia power turbine expansion
Mitsubishi Power Systems announced plans Friday to double its production capacity at a power turbine factory near Savannah amid AI demand. The Georgia facility opened in 2010.
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Georgia Tech’s NSF AI Institutes Enter New Era With $38.4 Million in Renewed Sup...
NSF AI4OPT and NSF AI-ALOE will advance AI-powered decision-making, adaptive expertise, education,...
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Georgia Tech, Emory combining almost $1.2 billion for AI investment
Earlier this month, Emory University and Georgia Tech announced they are working together to invest...
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Georgia Tech Receives $5 Million From Google.org to Expand Access to AI for Scientific Discovery
The three-year initiative gives researchers greater access to AI tools, training, and computing power to help accelerate ...
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Georgia's Oglethorpe Power Gets Record $3.3B USDA Loan
A record $3.3 billion federal loan is funding a Georgia gas plant next door to a Google data center....
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UNG brings AI tools, training to community
UNG is going to put advanced agentic AI tools and practical training directly into the hands of 34 rural north Georgia ...
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Georgia Tech unveils AI supercomputer
On Monday, Georgia Tech cut the ribbon on a new AI supercomputer, part of hundreds of millions of dollars of investment in AI ...
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Rick Jackson makes stop in Columbia County, announces position on data centers
Republican governor candidate Rick Jackson campaigned in Columbia County the night before polls opened in Georgia.
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Georgia Tech Opens Supercomputer to Researchers Nationwide
Nexus is housed at Georgia Tech’s Coda data center in Atlanta, extending the Institute’s investment in advanced computing infrastructure and its role in the nation’s technology and research ecosystem.
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Georgia Tech, Emory announce investment of more than $1 billion in AI infrastructure
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — The Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University announced Thursday that the two schools are teaming up to invest more than $1 billion in AI infrastructure ...
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Georgia leaders focus on jobs, AI and workforce needs at annual summit
ATLANTA (WJBF) — Georgia Governor Brian Kemp is bringing business, education and workforce leaders t...
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Google partners with Southern Co's Georgia Power for AI data centers, deal projected to deliver $900 million in customer benefits
Southern Company‘s SO subsidiary Georgia Power and Alphabet Inc.‘s GOOG GOOGL Google announced Monday an agreement to support nuclear power uprates at the Vogtle and Hatch plants to secure more clean ...
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Georgia Power deal to power OpenAI data center is approved, with some fine print
Staff for Georgia’s top utility regulator on Wednesday approved Georgia Power’s deal to power a $20 billion OpenAI data center planned near Savannah, while also spelling out protections for ratepayers ...
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Utility officials approve Georgia Power, OpenAI data center agreement
The Georgia Public Service Commission has approved a contract between Georgia Power and OpenAI to power a massive new data center project in Effingham County. Utility officials announced Wednesday ...
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OpenAI gets green light for 3.2GW power deal to supply planned data center in Effingham County, Georgia
The Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) has approved a power supply contract between Georgia Power and OpenAI to serve OpenAI’s planned data center in Effingham County, Georgia. As part of the ...
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Data center expansion in Georgia has implications for consumers’ power bills
For more than a year, commissioners on the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) have been repeating a reassuring claim: they’ve put rules in place to shield Georgia Power’s residential customers ...
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OpenAI’s $20B data center dominated Georgia headlines. But it wasn’t alone.
It’s hard to imagine a billion-dollar project getting overshadowed, let alone two. But that was before the data center boom came to Georgia, upending development norms. OpenAI last week made national ...
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ↗
OpenAI chooses Georgia for its largest-ever data center. $20B project touts...
The new data center is expected to use as much as energy as three other planned data center projects...
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer · via Yahoo News ↗
OpenAI is spending $30 billion on a new mega 3.2 GW data center in Georgia — and...
OpenAI really wants to avoid the local opposition seen at other data center projects, and is willing...
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OpenAI plans massive data center facility in Georgia, development to start in 2028
ChatGPT creator OpenAI announced they would build a new project in south Georgia. Georgia Power, who is providing the power for the planned facility, said in a release that OpenAI’s new data facility ...
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OpenAI announces 3.2 GW AI data centre campus in Georgia
New Delhi [India] July 22 (ANI): OpenAI on Wednesday announced plans to develop a 3.2-gigawatt artificial intelligence data centre in Effingham County, Georgia, under Project Camellia, committing USD ...
Asian News International ↗