New lawsuit alleges unfair secrecy around Effingham data center

A group of plaintiffs is asking a judge to declare that the Effingham County Industrial Development Authority unfairly did public business in private and to throw out the agency’s deals with OpenAI affiliate Octans Georgia for a data center near Rincon. Five county residents plus the nonprofit environmental group One Hundred Miles allege that the […]
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