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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Urbana Technology Hub.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Thor Equities
- Address and locality
- Urbana · Champaign County · Ohio
- Official metro area
- Outside an official metropolitan boundary
- Source-reported status
- proposed
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 14 October 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- reported (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001988
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.
- Community response
- Provider label: litigation
Incentives reported by the source
Whether each incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.
- Community Reinvestment Area tax abatement agreement · City of Urbana · 2025 Open cited source →
Provider notes
Community. Urbana's zoning appeals board rejected the Feb 2026 site plan. Council then passed a 12-month moratorium (Mar 2026) and repealed the data-center-enabling ordinance (June 16, 2026). Thor sued the city, council and zoning board in federal court on June 19, 2026.
What the source record says
Thor says it has spent over $19M on preliminary work and projects $3M/yr in city tax revenue. The end user is undisclosed. Coordinates are the Urbana city centroid (approximate). The site is near the OH-55 / US-68 intersection.
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
- 2026-02 · source-reported proposed
Thor submitted a site plan for a 460,000 sq ft data center near OH-55 and US-68 (near the Rittal plant) after Urbana annexed and rezoned the property to M-1 in April 2025. The plan was rejected and the project is now in federal litigation.
Sources and attribution
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1+reviewed-2610e0556b3d, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID thor-equities-urbana-technology-hub-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-001988
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.
Location and precision
- Urbana, OH · Champaign (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Thor Equities
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported proposed
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Status history: 2026-02 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Not stated
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Community response: Provider label: litigation
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
- Incentive reported by the source: Community Reinvestment Area tax abatement agreement · City of Urbana · 2025
Whether the incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-10-14
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Not yet recorded here: Area, acreage and buildings · Cooling, water, PUE and WUE · 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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