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Data centers in Ohio: projects, fights & moratoriums
Projects tracked8
Blocked or withdrawn1
Moratoriums / limits0
Upcoming hearings6
Projects
- Pataskala data center (89 acres) (Licking County): blocked. Council unanimously rejected site plan; Aligned filed court appeal; voters decide citywide ban in November
- Meta data center (Middleton Twp.) (Wood County): under construction. Trustees denied 2-1 Meta's request to rezone 39.265 acres for construction-worker parking
- Meta New Albany Data Center (Licking County): operating. Operating campus (opened 2020)
- Meta Prometheus AI cluster (Licking County): operating. Partially online: ~470-500 MW energized (Prometheus South operating, North halls awaiting power) per drone/satellite trackers
- AWS central Ohio campuses (Franklin / Licking County): operating. Additional $10B announced, total planned Ohio investment >$23B by 2030
- Stargate Lordstown (SoftBank) (Trumbull County): under construction. Site mainly retooled to manufacture AI server/data center equipment; small proof-of-concept building; village data center moratorium through Jan 2, 2027
- Cologix Johnstown OH campus (Licking County): under construction. 800 MW, 8-building campus; PUCO approved AEP-owned Bloom fuel cells as bridge power
- PORTS-Pike Technology Campus (Pike County): under construction. OPSB local public hearing on the AEP Baku-Gavin 765 kV line (~51 miles, ~$1.1B, paid by the data center) set for Oct. 27 in Jackson; early civil works under way
Upcoming hearings & votes
- 2026-10-20: Grove City Data Center Committee, Data Center Committee meeting
- 2026-10-27: Ohio Power Siting Board, Local public hearing on AEP Baku-Gavin 765 kV line (Pike, Jackson, Gallia counties), which would serve a planned Piketon data center campus. Case 26-0426-EL-BTX
- 2026-11-03: Voters (general election), Ballot question on a citywide data center ban
- 2026-11-03: Voters (general election), Charter amendment banning data centers over 25 MW
- 2026-11-03: Voters (general election), Referendum on a proposed data center
- 2026-11-23: Lancaster City Council, Hearing on new zoning section 1147.12 setting standards for a Data Processing Center