OpenAI's $20 billion Georgia data center project announced as marquee AI infrastructure investment.

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 headlines by announcing a $20 billion data center complex near Savannah that already had its local approvals in order, leaving few barriers for the tech giant to clear. The project ranks among Georgia's largest, prompting promises of economic prosperity from backers and outrage among thousands of residents who just learned of the plans.

But lost amid the noise were two other mammoth data center projects underway in metro Atlanta, both of which filed key state paperwork on the same day as OpenAI.