Same issue 5 years down the line and not even AI can solve this. Anyway I used this work around for me.
# Some GDAL configurations for GIS support
# os.environ['GDAL_DATA'] = "C:\\OSGeo4W\\share\\epsg_csv"
os.environ['PROJ_LIB'] = "C:\\OSGeo4W\\share\\proj"
os.environ['GEOS_LIBRARY_PATH'] = "C:\\OSGeo4W\\bin\\geos.dll"