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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Google Project BOSC (Lima).
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Address and locality
- Lima · Allen County · Ohio
- Official metro area
- Lima, OH
- Source-reported status
- permitted
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 23 July 2026
- Location precision
- approximate (provider label: exact; the provider's own note describes an approximate location)
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- confirmed (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000706
Reported details
Source-reported by Compute Atlas; not independently verified by DataCenterData. Provider wording is kept; long provider notes are shortened and marked …; unknown is not zero; none of these values is totaled, ranked or compared.
- Electric utility
- AEP Ohio
- Power source
- Grid
- Cooling
- Evaporative
- Land area
- 170 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Announced investment
- $500 million
- Community response
- Provider label: mixed
- AI-use label (provider)
- likely
- Announced
- 16 March 2026
Incentives reported by the source
Whether each incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.
- 15-year PILOT tax abatement - Elida Local Schools offset ($250,000/yr for 15 years; total value undisclosed)
Provider notes
Energy. Grid power via a planned on-site AEP substation. Ohio EPA air-permit application (pending as of March 2026) covers 115 diesel emergency generators and related fuel storage.
Water. 36 cooling towers per the Ohio EPA permit application; described by Google as water-cooled. City of Lima granted 5 million gallons/day (Sept 2025).
Community. Broad government/business support; opposing comments during the Ohio EPA air-permit comment period focused on transparency about the Bistrozzi LLC shell; resident construction-traffic concerns reported May 2026.
What the source record says
Google's third Ohio data center (after New Albany and Lancaster). $500M confirmed capital investment. Codename Project BOSC; pre-announcement land/permit work via Bistrozzi LLC (Delaware shell). Coordinates are the Lima city centroid; the confirmed site is in American Township ~2 mi north of Lima (North Cole Street between Beery and Irvin Roads), ~170 acres. Capacity MW not disclosed. Google's project page states construction anticipated to begin late 2026; ~50 permanent jobs projected per DCD and 'hundreds' of construction jobs - projections, so omitted from jobs. Ohio EPA air-permit application (pending March 2026) covers 115 emergency diesel generators; 36 cooling towers specified. $50M of the investment is earmarked for local road infrastructure, $13.6M for water infrastructure.
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
- 2024-12 · source-reported proposed
Project first surfaced as Project BOSC via Bistrozzi LLC (Delaware shell); 170-acre agricultural site on North Cole Street, American Township
- 2025-09 · source-reported proposed
City of Lima water ordinance approved allowing 5 million gallons per day for the project
- 2026-03-16 · source-reported permitted
Google publicly named as the operator behind Project BOSC; PILOT finalized with Elida Local Schools; Ohio EPA air permit still pending
Sources and attribution
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- Google confirmed as company behind $500m data center in Lima, Ohio · Data Center Dynamics
- Google to Build Data Center in Lima, Ohio with $500 Million Capital Investment · Allen Economic Development Group
- Allen County Data Center - Project Overview · Google / Allen County Data Center
- Google officially behind data center project · The Lima News
- HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) / HIFLD
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID google-bosc-lima-oh. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added. Some locations in this layer are reported by the provider as derived from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) and Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0).
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-000706
Licensed directory row.
Provider notes and the source narrative are printed on this page and are not repeated here.
Identity and relationships
- Provider facility type: data center
Provider facility type.
- AI-use label (provider): likely
Compute Atlas classification, not a DataCenterData finding.
Location and precision
- Lima, OH · Allen (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Google
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported permitted
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Announced: 16 March 2026
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2024-12 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2025-09 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2026-03-16 · source-reported permitted
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 170 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Not stated
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
- Electric utility: AEP Ohio
Utility as named by the provider.
- Power source: Grid
Provider label.
Cooling, water, PUE and WUE
- Cooling: Evaporative
Provider label.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Announced investment: $500 million
Announced figure; whether it covers one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Community response: Provider label: mixed
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
- Incentive reported by the source: 15-year PILOT tax abatement - Elida Local Schools offset ($250,000/yr for 15 years; total value undisclosed)
Whether the incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-07-23
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: Connectivity · Services · Certifications and design ratings · Rack density · Availability · Specification links and contact.
Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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