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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Microsoft Heath Data Center.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Microsoft
- Address and locality
- 975 Thornwood Dr · Heath · Licking County · Ohio
- Official metro area
- Columbus, OH
- Source-reported status
- under construction
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 14 October 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-000981
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
- 227 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Announced jobs
- 400 construction
- Community response
- Provider label: supported
- AI-use label (provider)
- mixed use
- Announced
- October 2024
Incentives reported by the source
Whether each incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.
- Ohio data-center sales/use-tax exemption (R.C. 122.175), 15-yr, awarded by the Ohio Tax Credit Authority Oct 28 2024 for Microsoft's three Licking County campuses (New Albany, Heath, Hebron); combined value estimated ~$72.5M (Policy Matters Ohio), not disaggregated by site. Microsoft declined real-estate tax abatements at Hebron/Heath, benefiting Lakewood Local Schools. · State of Ohio · 2024 Open cited source →
Provider notes
Energy. Powered from the AEP Ohio grid as part of Microsoft's Central Ohio (Licking County) expansion.
Water. Microsoft's Licking County datacenters use direct evaporative cooling per Microsoft; no Heath-specific operational water-use (MGD) figure is published.
Community. Microsoft agreed not to take real-estate tax abatements at Heath or Hebron, benefiting Lakewood Local School District. Heath Mayor praised cooperative planning process and noted off-site infrastructure improvements along Thornwood Drive corridor.
What the source record says
Site at 975 Thornwood Dr SW, Heath OH 43056; 227 acres. Part of Microsoft's $1B Licking County three-campus investment alongside Hebron and New Albany. Coordinates are approximate Heath city centroid; exact Thornwood Dr parcel not pinned. The $1B is Microsoft's three-campus Licking County commitment; no Heath-specific capital-investment figure is published (do not derive by subtraction).
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
- 2024-10 · source-reported proposed
Announced as part of $1B Licking County investment; Microsoft purchases 227 acres at 975 Thornwood Dr SW, Heath for over $32M
- 2025-04 · source-reported proposed
Microsoft pauses all Licking County sites
- 2026-02 · source-reported under construction
Groundbreaking February 24, 2026; AMES Construction as general contractor; mass grading began February, targeted complete November 2026
Sources and attribution
These sources are listed for the whole row. Unless a figure links to its own source, the provider does not mark which one gave it, so a figure may not appear in every source.
- Heath datacenter construction updates - Microsoft Local · Microsoft Local
- Heath breaks ground on Microsoft data center expected to bring hundreds of jobs · ABC 6 WSYX Columbus
- Ohio data centers exploit tax break · Signal Ohio
- Understanding Microsoft datacenters in Licking County · Microsoft Local
- Licking County Auditor GIS: parcel 097-330018-00.000, 975 Thornwood Dr, Heath, MICROSOFT CORPORATION, 226.33 tax acres · Licking County Auditor
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID microsoft-heath-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).
Compute Atlas 1.34.1 with retained prior rows and publication holds. This is a DataCenterData composite, not an unmodified publisher edition. This row uses the captured source from 1.34.1, source as of 2026-10-14T20:40:52.293Z.
This exact source identifier is linked to Microsoft — Heath campus. The licensed row remains a separate discovery record.
Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-000981
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): mixed use
Compute Atlas classification, not a DataCenterData finding.
Location and precision
- 975 Thornwood Dr, Heath, OH · Licking (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Microsoft
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported under construction
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Announced: October 2024
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2024-10 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2025-04 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2026-02 · source-reported under construction
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 227 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 jobs: 400 construction
Announced figures; whether they cover one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Community response: Provider label: supported
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
- Incentive reported by the source: Ohio data-center sales/use-tax exemption (R.C. 122.175), 15-yr, awarded by the Ohio Tax Credit Authority Oct 28 2024 for Microsoft's three Licking County campuses (New Albany, Heath, Hebron); combined value estimated ~$72.5M (Policy Matters Ohio), not disaggregated by site. Microsoft declined real-estate tax abatements at Hebron/Heath, benefiting Lakewood Local Schools. · State of Ohio · 2024
Whether the incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-10-14
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
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Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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