Effingham County commissioners are scheduled Tuesday to vote on whether to approve a formal site plan application submitted by developer Octans GA LLC, an affiliate of OpenAI, for Project Camellia, following months of public hearings, resident protests, legal challenges, and an abrupt postponement requested by the developer in mid-September. According to county agenda documents, the formal site plan outlines OpenAI’s multi-billion-dollar Project Camellia data center campus spanning approximately 1,347 acres across two parcels in the Savannah Gateway Industrial Hub near Rincon, with direct roadway access from Effingham Parkway, Gateway Parkway, and Hodgeville Road. The formal engineering site plan details a six-building campus designated DC01 through DC06, each planned at approximately 42 feet in height, plus a 100,000-square-foot warehouse, a 75,000-square-foot operations building, three on-site electrical substations, associated electrical yards, industrial chiller equipment, and a total of 1,608 parking spaces, including 250 spaces dedicated to each data center building. The plans incorporate a 300-foot vegetative buffer adjacent to Agricultural-Residential (AR-1) properties, a 150-foot buffer along commercial zones, and a 25-foot buffer bordering neighboring industrial tracts. County GIS mapping confirms portions of the site lie within freshwater wetlands and FEMA Zone AE floodplains, which carry a 1% annual chance of flooding, and the documentation references state wildlife evaluations regarding documented protected species in the watershed, including