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Project Zero: The Plan to Reduce Property Taxes for Georgia’s Effingham County Residents

As local residents across the country are expressing concerns about the rapid growth of data centers, one county in Georgia thinks it has a partial solution to offset those worries and make sure data centers pay off for local residents—by eliminating local property taxes.

In July, OpenAI announced plans to build a 3.2-gigawatt data center facility in Effingham County. The operation has come to be known as Project Camellia, and its implications for the county are far-reaching.

The $20 billion data center corresponds with a project the county has devised to eradicate residential property taxes completely by 2028 for qualified homestead properties.

The concept of using data centers to reduce or eliminate property taxes in the county has been dubbed “Project Zero.”

In a recent vote, Effingham County commissioners voted 4-1 to approve their portion of a proposal that allows for six mills in property tax relief, amounting to an estimated 30% cut for the average household.

Tim Callanan, the Effingham County manager, told the Daily Signal that the “six mills” of property tax relief roughly equates to $38 million. “Every mill is worth about $4.5 million,” he said.

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Callanan added that the total amount of property tax relief will be $27 million, and the leftover $11 million in the budget “will be used to zero out homestead........

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