{"id":1022991,"date":"2026-07-23T11:11:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T05:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1022991"},"modified":"2026-07-23T11:51:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T06:21:02","slug":"southern-company-unit-signs-25-year-power-deal-with-openai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/23\/southern-company-unit-signs-25-year-power-deal-with-openai\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Company unit signs 25-year power deal with OpenAI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Southern Company&#8217;s subsidiary said on Wednesday it has signed a 25-year power supply agreement with OpenAI for a new project in Effingham County, Georgia. <\/p>\n<p>AI&#8217;s explosive growth is straining power grids, forcing utilities and tech giants \u200cto negotiate \u2060who \u2060bears the cost and risk as data centers balloon in size. <\/p>\n<p>Here are the details:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southern Company&#8217;s subsidiary said on Wednesday it has signed a 25-year power supply agreement with OpenAI for a new project in Effingham County, Georgia. AI&#8217;s explosive growth is straining power grids, forcing utilities and tech giants \u200cto negotiate \u2060who \u2060bears the cost and risk as data centers balloon in size. Here are the details:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023015,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022991\/revisions\/1023015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}