Meta design capacity
Company description of New Albany after construction—not metered load and not a utility-service commitment.
Ohio evidence index · last changed 3 November 2026
Ohio data centers: what the public record shows.
A major-project first pass plus a physical-facility inventory and a sourced claim-and-inference desk. We separate grid demand from IT capacity, construction from operation, supported jobs from permanent headcount, and a draft permit from measured water use.
Explore Ohio
Map, listings and checked facts.
Start with 104 licensed source leads, then inspect the separate public-evidence layer below. Licensed rows are not independently verified and are not a statewide census.
Ohio map
Reported locations in Ohio
104 licensed rows · 60 source localities · 7 map targets
Browse 7 mapped areas as links
- Columbus, OH Metro Area48 licensed rows · 18 source locality labelsAshville, Chillicothe, Columbus, Dublin, Heath, Hebron, Hilliard, Jeffersonville, Johnstown, Lancaster, Lewis Center, Marysville, Millersport, New Albany, Pataskala, Plain City, Upper Arlington, Urbana
- Cleveland area20 licensed rows · 11 source locality labelsAkron, Canton, Cleveland, Garfield Heights, Independence, Lordstown, Niles / Weathersfield Township, Perry, Project Astralus (Yellow Creek Township), Ravenna, Shalersville Township
- Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN Metro Area21 licensed rows · 16 source locality labelsBlue Ash, Cincinnati, Dayton, Hamilton, Lebanon, Mason, Miamisburg, Monroe Township, Mount Orab, New Richmond (Pierce Township), Piqua, Sidney, Springfield, Trenton, West Chester Township, Wilmington
- Bowling Green area5 licensed rows · 5 source locality labelsBowling Green, Lima, Oregon, Project Andromeda (Oxford Township), Sandusky (Perkins Township)
- Clarington area5 licensed rows · 5 source locality labelsCipher Digital Ulysses, Clarington, Conesville, HashWorks Powered Land — Waterford Site, The Plains
- Franklin Furnace area4 licensed rows · 4 source locality labelsFranklin Furnace, Hanging Rock, Manchester, Piketon
- Van Wert1 licensed row · approximate
Map sources and method
The state outline is adapted from the U.S. Census Bureau 2025 cartographic boundary file. Facility coordinates are adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Outline and markers use one geographic projection before any explicitly disclosed readability offset. Exact singleton source anchors are never moved. A one-kilometre boundary tolerance prevents the simplified 1:20,000,000 outline from hiding legitimate border-area source points; farther conflicts are disclosed, not clamped. DataCenterData groups source-reported city coordinates only within a bounded map radius; the outline does not validate a facility record. 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).
104 licensed rows56 reported city labels55 eligible organization labels
48source-reported operational26source-reported under construction21source-reported proposed6source-reported permitted3source-reported cancelled
Browse all 104 rows below. Licensed rows are not independently verified and remain separate from the checked public-evidence layer.
Official metro areasColumbus, OH 97 mapped listingsCincinnati, OH-KY-IN 19 mapped listings (all states, all layers)Cleveland, OH 16 mapped listingsAkron, OH 6 mapped listingsHuntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH 5 mapped listings (all states, all layers)Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH 4 mapped listingsYoungstown-Warren, OH 3 mapped listingsCanton-Massillon, OH 2 mapped listingsSandusky, OH 2 mapped listingsToledo, OH 2 mapped listingsLima, OH 1 mapped listingSpringfield, OH 1 mapped listingWheeling, WV-OH 1 mapped listing (all states, all layers)
New Albany 17Columbus 7Cleveland 5Akron 4Cincinnati 3Hilliard 3Johnstown 3Lewis Center 3Plain City 3Canton 2Hamilton 2Lordstown 2
Counties in the facility registerAdams 1Allen 1Athens 1Brown 1Butler 5Champaign 1Clark 2Clermont 1Clinton 2Columbiana 1Coshocton 1Cuyahoga 7Delaware 3Erie 2Fairfield 2Fayette 2Franklin 21Hamilton 4Lake 1Lawrence 1Licking 15Lucas 1Miami 1Monroe 1Montgomery 2Morgan 1Pickaway 1Pike 1Portage 2Preble 1Ross 1Scioto 1Shelby 1Stark 2Summit 3Trumbull 3Union 1Van Wert 1Warren 1Washington 1Wood 2
Amazon Web Services 16Cologix 6CyrusOne 5QTS Data Centers 5Expedient 4Google 4Aligned Data Centers 3Ark Data Centers (formerly Involta) 3
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5C Group / Vultr Data Center (Prime Ohio)
5C Group (Hypertec Cloud + 5C Data Centers); tenant Vultr (The Constant Company, LLC)
601 Benjamin Drive · Springfield · Clark County · Ohio
source-reported under constructionReported planned 150 MWSource updated 2 August 2026approximate location -
source-reported under constructionCapacity not established; source review excludes the published figureSource updated 9 September 2026approximate location
Separate layer
Also listed by operators
Sites that operators list on their own websites and that are not rows in the licensed directory above. They are kept apart and never added to the licensed rows.
20 operator-listed sites (mixed units; not added to licensed rows) in Ohio →
8 of these sites have no supported coordinate. The map does not invent a pin or a metro placement for them.
Ohio evidence at a glance
Some questions answerable
Selected public evidence, not a statewide census. Each row shows whether it is independently source-linked, attributed, or unresolved; licensed leads remain separate.
- Published project / campus
- 10
- Published facility / building
- 4
- Attributed or unresolved rows
- 35
- Licensed directory leads
- 104 not independently verified
- Capacity boundary stated
- 18 of 92 published DataCenterData rows
- Review timing
- Audit through 12 September 2026 · next 17 September 2026
Known coverage gap
No index page listing Ohio Tax Credit Authority minutes was found; five probed 2026 minute URLs all returned unavailable during review, so 2026 exemption approvals were not enumerated.
Browse all 104 Ohio licensed leads → · Why these counts differ →
20register rows kept separate by unit: 19 project/campus and 1 operating facility; independently source-linked and attributed layers stay separate
29facility/building records: 3 independently source-linked and 26 attributed or unresolved; the mixed project register carries one further operating facility
13Ohio evidence entries, including 10 tested readings shown on this page
0statewide totals published before a comparable denominator exists
This is not “every Ohio data center.”It covers major projects with useful public evidence. A commercial directory count can mix a campus, a building, a tenant suite and a network point-of-presence. The public first pass does not inherit those rows or call missing facilities zero.
Included now
Major hyperscale projects plus 29 colocation, enterprise and hyperscale building records directly identified by operators, with lifecycle status preserved.
Still missing
The city says approximately 15 information-technology companies have constructed 40 facilities, with 28 more announced or under construction, but does not publish the building-level denominator. Our separate 43-entry municipal project ledger uses a different unit. Opening dates, identities, private/government sites, retired facilities and observed outcomes remain queued.
Not additive
Three Google campuses, a multi-building AWS expansion and a four-data-center Vantage plan are each one record here. The record count is not a building count.
Where the evidence points
Projects and buildings are different layers.
Orange markers represent the mixed project register: 19 project or campus records and 1 operating-facility record. Cyan markers are the separate operator-identified physical-facility or building inventory. Records are anchored to Census geography centroids—not parcel coordinates—and dense Central Ohio markers are visibly offset to remain tappable.
Boundaries: Census TIGERweb Generalized ACS 2025. Centroids: Census TIGERweb Current/ACS26. Lewis Center uses the Orange Township centroid. Dense Central Ohio markers receive disclosed presentation offsets; the exact source centroids remain in the data. Open map data and precision notes →
What the first pass reveals
Ohio’s public numbers speak different languages.
The most impressive-looking figures are usually not directly comparable. The honest statewide view starts by refusing to add them.
Vantage OH1 IT load
Planned critical IT capacity across three buildings—not total campus grid demand.
Vantage OH2 IT capacity
Planned capacity in Millersport. Its adjacent-generation and no-rate-impact claims still need regulatory records.
Google Ohio investment
Company statewide investment-to-date claim; it cannot be allocated across three campuses from the reviewed disclosure.
New Albany building reconciliation
The city names the buildings. It does not prove they are operating.
We transcribed every current municipal Commercial Projects entry described as a “new data center” or “new data building.” This creates a public identity queue without turning a construction-project page into an operating-facility count.
43named municipal data-center or data-building project leads
8company labels, including one unresolved NBY label
4already crosswalked to physical QTS building records
2support buildings explicitly excluded from this ledger
What 43 does—and does not—mean.It is a count of named municipal construction/project entries, including future work and repeated generic building labels. It does not verify that many distinct operating facilities and it does not reconcile the city’s separate “15 companies operate 40+ facilities” claim. That requires opening dates, identities and lifecycle evidence.
| Company label / building | Published location | Square feet | Reconciliation status | Primary source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| QTS — NAL1 DC1 | 1235 Beech Rd. | 442,521 sq ft | Crosswalked to qts-new-albany-1-dc1 | Municipal project leadCity of New Albany construction project updates →Gov. record |
| QTS — NAL1 DC2 | 1225 Beech Rd. | 442,521 sq ft | Crosswalked to qts-new-albany-1-dc2 | Municipal project leadCity of New Albany construction project updates →Gov. record |
| QTS — NAL2 DC1 | 785 Beech Road | 320,200 sq ft | Crosswalked to qts-new-albany-2-dc1 | Municipal project leadCity of New Albany construction project updates →Gov. record |
| QTS — NAL2 DC2 | 675 Beech Rd. | 292,500 sq ft | Crosswalked to qts-new-albany-2-dc2 | Municipal project leadCity of New Albany construction project updates →Gov. record |
| Meta — LCO 2 | 1500 Beech Rd. | 302,944 sq ft | Not yet promoted to physical-facility count | Municipal project leadCity of New Albany construction project updates →Gov. record |
| Meta — NLH1 | 1500 Beech Rd SW | 138,000 sq ft | Not yet promoted to physical-facility count | Municipal project leadCity of New Albany construction project updates →Gov. record |
| AWS — Building B | Generally located at Beech and Jug | 260,435 sq ft | Not yet promoted to physical-facility count | Municipal project leadCity of New Albany construction project updates →Gov. record |
| Meta — NLH9s | 1500 Beech Rd SW | 104,280 sq ft | Not yet promoted to physical-facility count | Municipal project leadCity of New Albany construction project updates →Gov. record |
| AWS — Building A | Generally located at Miller and Beech | 251,265 sq ft | Not yet promoted to physical-facility count | Municipal project leadCity of New Albany construction project updates →Gov. record |
| NBY / operator unresolved — Hub 2 | 1101 Beech Rd. SW | 251,265 sq ft | Not yet promoted to physical-facility count | Municipal project leadCity of New Albany construction project updates →Gov. record |
| Vantage — Building 1 | Generally located at Jug & Horizon | 500,107 sq ft | Not yet promoted to physical-facility count | Municipal project leadCity of New Albany construction project updates →Gov. record |
| AWS — Building E | Generally located at Beech and Jug | 256,305 sq ft | Not yet promoted to physical-facility count | Municipal project leadCity of New Albany construction project updates →Gov. record |
| Google — 7 | 1101 Beech Road | 170,594 sq ft | Not yet promoted to physical-facility count | Municipal project leadCity of New Albany construction project updates →Gov. record |
| Vantage — Building 2 | 3265 Horizon Court | 500,107 sq ft | Not yet promoted to physical-facility count | Municipal project leadCity of New Albany construction project updates →Gov. record |
| Vantage — Building 3 | 3205 Horizon Court | 500,107 sq ft | Not yet promoted to physical-facility count | Municipal project leadCity of New Albany construction project updates →Gov. record |
| CyrusOne — Building 1 | 2470 Clover Valley Rd. | 274,518 sq ft | Not yet promoted to physical-facility count | Municipal project leadCity of New Albany construction project updates →Gov. record |
| Meta — NLH2 | 1500 Beech Rd. | 125,996 sq ft | Not yet promoted to physical-facility count | Municipal project leadCity of New Albany construction project updates →Gov. record |
| Meta — NLH3 | 1500 Beech Rd. | 125,996 sq ft | Not yet promoted to physical-facility count | Municipal project leadCity of New Albany construction project updates →Gov. record |
| Meta — NLH5 | 1500 Beech Rd. | 125,996 sq ft | Not yet promoted to physical-facility count | Municipal project leadCity of New Albany construction project updates →Gov. record |
| AWS — Building A | Generally located at Beech and Miller | 196,019 sq ft | Not yet promoted to physical-facility count | Municipal project leadCity of New Albany construction project updates →Gov. record |
| AWS — Building F | Generally located at Beech and Miller | 224,152 sq ft | Not yet promoted to physical-facility count | Municipal project leadCity of New Albany construction project updates →Gov. record |
| AWS — Building H | Generally located at Beech and Miller | 31,942 sq ft | Not yet promoted to physical-facility count | Municipal project leadCity of New Albany construction project updates →Gov. record |
| AWS — AWS 4 Building B | Generally located at Miller and Beech | 245,893 sq ft | Not yet promoted to physical-facility count | Municipal project leadCity of New Albany construction project updates →Gov. record |
| AWS — AWS 4 Building C | Generally located at Miller and Beech | 223,790 sq ft | Not yet promoted to physical-facility count | Municipal project leadCity of New Albany construction project updates →Gov. record |
| AWS — AWS 4 Building D | Generally located at Miller and Beech | 223,790 sq ft | Not yet promoted to physical-facility count | Municipal project leadCity of New Albany construction project updates →Gov. record |
| Meta — NLH 6 | 1500 Beech Rd. | 125,996 sq ft | Not yet promoted to physical-facility count | Municipal project leadCity of New Albany construction project updates →Gov. record |
| Meta — NAB 2 | 13385 Green Chapel Rd. | 125,996 sq ft | Not yet promoted to physical-facility count | Municipal project leadCity of New Albany construction project updates →Gov. record |
| Meta — NAB 1 | 13385 Green Chapel Rd. | 125,996 sq ft | Not yet promoted to physical-facility count | Municipal project leadCity of New Albany construction project updates →Gov. record |
| Meta — NAB 9 | 13385 Green Chapel Rd. | 132,403 sq ft | Not yet promoted to physical-facility count | Municipal project leadCity of New Albany construction project updates →Gov. record |
| EdgeConneX — New Albany building | 2465 Clover Valley Rd. | 700,000 sq ft | Not yet promoted to physical-facility count | Municipal project leadCity of New Albany construction project updates →Gov. record |
| Meta — NAB 3 | 13385 Green Chapel Rd. | 125,996 sq ft | Not yet promoted to physical-facility count | Municipal project leadCity of New Albany construction project updates →Gov. record |
| Meta — NAB 5 | 13385 Green Chapel Rd. | 125,996 sq ft | Not yet promoted to physical-facility count | Municipal project leadCity of New Albany construction project updates →Gov. record |
| Meta — NAB 100 | 13385 Green Chapel Rd. | 22,000 sq ft | Not yet promoted to physical-facility count | Municipal project leadCity of New Albany construction project updates →Gov. record |
| AWS — AWS 5 Building B | Generally located at Beech and Miller | 196,019 sq ft | Not yet promoted to physical-facility count | Municipal project leadCity of New Albany construction project updates →Gov. record |
| Meta — NAH 9 | 13385 Green Chapel Rd. | Unknown | Not yet promoted to physical-facility count | Municipal project leadCity of New Albany construction project updates →Gov. record |
| Meta — NAH 5 | 4415 Clover Valley Rd | 125,996 sq ft | Not yet promoted to physical-facility count | Municipal project leadCity of New Albany construction project updates →Gov. record |
| Meta — NAH 6 | 4417 Clover Valley Rd | 125,996 sq ft | Not yet promoted to physical-facility count | Municipal project leadCity of New Albany construction project updates →Gov. record |
| Meta — NAH 3 | 4413 Clover Valley Rd | 125,996 sq ft | Not yet promoted to physical-facility count | Municipal project leadCity of New Albany construction project updates →Gov. record |
| Meta — NAH 2 | 4411 Clover Valley Rd | 125,996 sq ft | Not yet promoted to physical-facility count | Municipal project leadCity of New Albany construction project updates →Gov. record |
| Meta — NAH 1 | 4409 Clover Valley Rd | 125,996 sq ft | Not yet promoted to physical-facility count | Municipal project leadCity of New Albany construction project updates →Gov. record |
| Meta — NAH 100 | 4405 Clover Valley Rd. | 13,243 sq ft | Not yet promoted to physical-facility count | Municipal project leadCity of New Albany construction project updates →Gov. record |
| AWS — AWS 5 Building C | Generally located at Beech & Miller | 112,076 sq ft | Not yet promoted to physical-facility count | Municipal project leadCity of New Albany construction project updates →Gov. record |
| AWS — AWS 4 Building E | Generally located at Beech & Miller | 223,790 sq ft | Not yet promoted to physical-facility count | Municipal project leadCity of New Albany construction project updates →Gov. record |
Open data: New Albany building-lead JSON. Open the city’s Commercial Projects source ↗. This ledger excludes an AWS security-control building and a Meta administration building that the city lists because their descriptions identify support uses rather than data buildings. Unknown operating status remains unknown.
Claims and inferences, reviewed
What the record actually establishes.
This is not an automated news feed. One card tests an exact published count; others label a common inference or unit mistake before testing it. We do not attribute synthetic wording to a source that never said it.
A verdict applies only to the wording shown.
Company claims are shown as stated; they are not findings.
Construction & status · Ohio
Sources re-read on 12 September 2026 (software-assisted second check, not an outside audit)
Not independently verifiedSaid by Ohio Consumers' Counsel · advocacy statement in Ohio Consumers' Counsel quick facts →
Checked 12 September 2026 · Next check: Reconcile OCC's current linked PDF and independently reconstruct the statewide denominator
Ohio has more than 200 data centers.
What the evidence supports
Ohio's consumer advocate repeats a commercial-directory count. It is useful as a market signal, but the linked directory's counting unit, lifecycle scope and deduplication have not been reconciled here. OCC's web page says more than 200; a retained PDF at its March-path URL says about 200, while the live page now links to a different May-path PDF that was not retrieved. DataCenterData does not adopt 200-plus as its own count.
Biggest limitation
A statewide census with consistent record units, lifecycle rules, deduplication and a dated coverage audit.
Ohio Consumers' Counsel quick facts → Gov. record Data Centers in Ohio (OCC fact sheet PDF, March 2026) → Gov. record
Power · Ohio
Sources re-read on 12 September 2026 (software-assisted second check, not an outside audit)
Partially supportedA question DataCenterData examined; no one is quoted.
Checked 3 November 2026 · Next check: PUCO rider, transmission-cost or rate-case filings that quantify residential allocation
Treating Ohio's 85% data-center tariff as proof that residents cannot be affected by data-center-driven power costs.
What the evidence supports
The PUCO-approved AEP Ohio tariff allocates substantial underuse and cancellation risk to new loads over 25 MW. PUCO describes the concern as cost shifting from significant transmission infrastructure and other underused investment serving data centers. These protections are real, but the reviewed sources do not prove that residents can never be affected by generation, transmission, capacity-market, wholesale-market or pre-tariff costs. The current Schedule DCT sheets (Ohio Power Company tariff P.U.C.O. No. 22, 1st Revised Sheets 223-1 to 223-8, issued and effective 28 August 2026 under the Commission's 1 April 2026 rate-case order and its 5 August 2026 order in Case No. 26-113-EL-ATA) set the minimum demand for new load after the ramp period at 15,000 kW plus 85% of the amount over 25,000 kW (25,001 to 75,000 kW) and 57,500 kW plus 100% of the amount over 75,000 kW, capped at 85% of total contract capacity; from that table DataCenterData calculates a minimum of about 72.5% at 50 MW and 82.5% at 100 MW, and a separate ratchet on the highest billing demand of the past 11 months can produce a higher billed demand. New-load contracts run for the load ramp period plus 8 years. Sheet 223-5 carries the interim standard-service-offer procedures the Commission granted on 5 August 2026: a Schedule DCT customer returning to the standard service offer must give 180 days' notice, AEP Ohio runs a separate procurement for that load at the customer's full cost, and if notice is not given AEP Ohio assigns the full cost of PJM spot-market purchases solely to that customer. The PUCO docket lists a 30 September 2026 entry denying the applications for rehearing of that order. AEP reports that 12,219 of 17,861 MW of contracted data-center projects were signed before the tariff took effect; contracted projects are not current measured load.
Biggest limitation
Whether generation, transmission, capacity-market, wholesale-market or pre-tariff contracts can affect household…
Still unknown
Whether generation, transmission, capacity-market, wholesale-market or pre-tariff contracts can affect household bills remains a separate question from this tariff arithmetic. The saved record holds the tariff sheets and the PUCO docket listing, not a PUCO or Ohio Consumers' Counsel analysis of household bill effects and not the text of the 5 August 2026 order or the 30 September 2026 entry on rehearing.
(DataCenterData calculation from AEP published formula: 15,000 kW plus 85% above 25,000 kW up to 75,000 kW; 57,500 kW plus 100% above 75,000 kW; capped at 85% of contract capacity.)
PUCO approves AEP Ohio data-center tariff → Gov. record Ohio Consumers' Counsel quick facts → Gov. record AEP Ohio Schedule DCT terms → Company AEP Ohio Updates PUCO on Data Center Load: Figures Show Tariff is Working (2026-02-13) → Company AEP Ohio (Ohio Power Company) tariff book, November 2026: Schedule DCT, 1st Revised Sheets 223-1 to 223-8 → Company PUCO docket record, Case No. 26-0113-EL-ATA (Ohio Power Company) → Gov. record
Taxes & incentives · Ohio
Sources re-read on 12 September 2026 (software-assisted second check, not an outside audit)
ContradictedA question DataCenterData examined; no one is quoted.
Checked 12 September 2026 · Next check: Company-level tax receipt, service-payment or TIRC record identifying the hyperscaler and components
Reading New Albany's $178 million payroll-equivalent figure as actual operator payroll.
What the evidence supports
The city calls $178 million a payroll equivalent: the amount of payroll that would yield the same revenue at its 2% income-tax rate. It is a city-reported comparison for one hyperscaler, not the operator's reported payroll, a headcount or an independently reconciled tax-receipt audit.
Biggest limitation
The hyperscaler's identity, underlying component revenue records, actual payroll and employee or contractor headcount.
New Albany city-finance page → Gov. record
Taxes & incentives · Ohio
ContradictedA question DataCenterData examined; no one is quoted.
Checked 12 September 2026 · Next check: no trigger recorded
Reading Ohio's equipment sales-and-use-tax exemption as meaning a qualifying project pays no taxes.
What the evidence supports
Ohio Revised Code §122.175 still supplies the eligibility framework: at least $100 million in project investment and at least $1.5 million in annual qualifying payroll, with agreement and annual verification requirements. It authorizes a complete or partial sales-and-use-tax exemption for qualifying data-center equipment. It does not by itself mean a qualifying project pays no taxes, and it does not repeal existing agreements. Whether new exemption requests remain paused is a separate claim (ohio-exemption-pause).
Biggest limitation
Net fiscal result of any named project;
Still unknown
Net fiscal result of any named project; whether a named project complied with or received an exemption.
Ohio data-center tax-exemption statute → Gov. record
Power · Meta New Albany campus / Prometheus expansion
ContradictedA question DataCenterData examined; no one is quoted.
Checked 12 September 2026 · Next check: no trigger recorded
Reading Meta's nuclear agreements as dedicated plants directly wired to the New Albany campus.
What the evidence supports
Meta says the agreements will deliver power to regional grids supporting its operations. New Albany says the campus draws from the regional grid. That is different from a dedicated wire or plant serving only the data center.
Biggest limitation
Limitation: none recorded.
Jobs · Microsoft New Albany campus
Not yet dueA question DataCenterData examined; no one is quoted.
Checked 11 September 2026 · Next check: no trigger recorded
Treating Microsoft's roughly 50 operating employees per facility as current observed employment across three sites.
What the evidence supports
Microsoft projects about 50 employees per facility once operational and says three facilities are to be operational by the end of 2029. Current construction activity and modeled jobs are not observed permanent operating headcount.
Biggest limitation
Limitation: none recorded.
Water & cooling · Ohio
ContradictedA question DataCenterData examined; no one is quoted.
Checked 12 September 2026 · Next check: no trigger recorded
Treating Ohio EPA's draft general permit as final blanket permission or proof of actual discharge.
What the evidence supports
Ohio EPA's Community Notice dated 21 July 2026 states that draft permit OHD000001 will not be finalized and that individual NPDES permitting remains the appropriate path. The official notice was retrieved and preserved on 12 September; a later live recheck was unavailable. The abandoned draft was never blanket permission, and an individual permit is still permission—not proof of actual discharge or site compliance.
Biggest limitation
Individual permits for named data-center outfalls were not inventoried.
Still unknown
Individual permits for named data-center outfalls were not inventoried. An individual NPDES permit is permission, not measured discharge or proof of compliance.
Ohio EPA draft OHD000001 → Gov. record Ohio EPA Community Notice: proposed data-center general permit will not be finalized → Gov. record Ohio EPA notice republished by The Clermont Sun (July 21, 2026) → Institution Rep. Rader Applauds Ohio EPA Decision to Require Individual Wastewater Permits for Data Centers → Gov. record
Water & cooling · Ohio
UnknownA question DataCenterData examined; no one is quoted.
Checked 12 September 2026 · Next check: no trigger recorded
Treating New Albany's no-additional-capacity statement as proof that facility-level water impact is negligible.
What the evidence supports
The city says it has not needed additional water capacity because of data centers. That city page still does not provide facility-level withdrawals. Google later published company-reported 2025 campus figures for New Albany, Lancaster and Lockbourne; those remain company claims with third-party limited assurance, not municipal meter audits. Independent utility/meter records, cooling share and peak-day demand remain missing for other operators.
Biggest limitation
Independent utility/meter records;
Still unknown
Independent utility/meter records; cooling-only share; peak-day demand; operators other than Google's company-reported 2025 campus rows.
City of New Albany data-center information → Gov. record
Power · Vantage Data Centers OH2 Millersport campus
Company claimSaid by Vantage · company statement in Vantage Millersport campus FAQ →
Checked 17 September 2026 · Next check: Follow-up overdue since 17 September 2026 — Official OPSB docket 26-0160-EL-BGN after the 17 September 2026 hearing. A newer evidence review is still needed.
The natural-gas power facility described as adjacent to Vantage's planned Millersport campus means the campus will not affect electricity costs for local residents or businesses.
What the evidence supports
Vantage says the proposed Fairfield Energy Center would power its adjacent campus without connecting to the local or regional grid. A preserved OPSB summary describes a proposed 1,300 MW gas facility with up to 1,000 MW of battery storage; the developer instead reports up to 1,350 MW net generation and approximately 1,040 MW storage. Those figures are not data-center IT capacity. The previously reviewed notice scheduled an evidentiary hearing for 17 September 2026; no hearing outcome or certificate has been verified. The plans cannot establish future retail-bill effects as an observed outcome.
Biggest limitation
The underlying OPSB application, hearing outcome, certificate status, and future effect on retail bills.
Taxes & incentives · Ohio
ContradictedA question DataCenterData examined; no one is quoted.
Checked 12 September 2026 · Next check: Official Tax Credit Authority or governor record of the pause, or a successor action after DeWine leaves office
Ohio's data-center sales-and-use-tax exemption statute has been repealed, or existing agreements were cancelled, by Governor DeWine's pause.
What the evidence supports
ORC §122.175 remains the statute and still sets the $100 million capital / $1.5 million payroll thresholds. The pause applies to new requests and does not repeal the statute or existing agreements. WOSU / Statehouse News Bureau reported on 6 August 2026 that Governor DeWine said the freeze 'will continue until I leave office.'
Biggest limitation
The governor's direct May communication was not independently retrieved.
Still unknown
The governor's direct May communication was not independently retrieved. Official Tax Credit Authority text of the pause was not obtained.
Showing 10 tested readings here; all 13 checked Ohio claims →
Open data: Ohio claim checks JSON. A verdict describes the evidence for the wording shown; it does not imply bad faith.
Physical facilities
The older market still counts.
Twenty-nine operator-identified facility or building records across nine providers are included: 21 are current or marketed as available and eight are development/preleasing. These are building/facility IDs—not AI-campus announcements—and several have operated or changed hands for years.
Cologix
COL1–4 are current facility listings; COL5 is expected ready-for-service Q3 2026; COL7 and COL8 are preleasing.
Operator location list ↗Expedient
Three Columbus-market facilities and two Cleveland facilities. CMH3 is a former Nationwide site added in 2024.
Columbus facilities ↗Cleveland facilities ↗ark data centers
Akron I, Akron II, Canton and Cleveland. Exact addresses remain unresolved for this public pass.
Operator location list ↗H5 Data Centers
Cincinnati I, Cincinnati II and the Cleveland Technology Center.
Operator location list ↗CyrusOne
CIN2 in Cincinnati and CIN5 in Lebanon on the operator’s current Ohio list.
Operator location list ↗DataBank + Flexential
DataBank CLE1 in downtown Cleveland and Flexential’s Cincinnati facility in West Chester Township.
DataBank CLE1 ↗Flexential Cincinnati ↗QTS
DC1 and DC2 at each of the New Albany 1 and New Albany 2 campuses. QTS currently classifies both campuses as in development.
New Albany 1 ↗New Albany 2 ↗STACK
County parcels resolve NAL01A to 7300 Souder Road and NAL01B to 7340 Souder Road. NAL01B has plan approval but remains pre-operational; the 11 MW and planned 51 MW building figures still do not equal the 60 MW campus headline.
STACK NAL01 ↗Operator-identified seed, not “all Ohio” yet.This pass identifies 29 distinct physical-facility or building records: 21 current/available and eight pre-operational. New Albany separately says roughly 15 information-technology companies have constructed 40 facilities, with 28 more announced or under construction; it does not publish a row-level denominator. Our 43-entry municipal project ledger uses a different unit, so neither city number is substituted for this facility count.
| Market | Facilities in this pass | What is quantified | Evidence boundary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Columbus / Central Ohio | Cologix COL1–5, COL7–8; Expedient CMH1–3; QTS New Albany 1 DC1–2 and New Albany 2 DC1–2; STACK NAL01A–B16 records · 8 pre-operational, 8 current/available | Cologix lists COL3 at 18+ MW; Expedient reports 13.4 MW across its portfolio of three Columbus-market facilities (critical IT load); STACK lists 11 MW and planned 51 MW building figures that conflict with its 60 MW campus headline. | Google, AWS, Meta, Microsoft, Vantage and EdgeConneX campus/location records stay in the project inventory until building identities are independently reconciled. |
| Cleveland | Expedient CLE1–2; H5 Cleveland; DataBank CLE1; ark Cleveland5 physical facility records | Expedient reports 4.7 MW critical IT load across CLE1–2, and DataBank lists 0.4 MW critical IT load for CLE1. ark’s published Cleveland figures are available-now and utility capacity—not critical IT load—and H5’s comparable capacity is not established. | DataBank’s record carries its 2017 acquisition from 365 Data Centers as history, not as a second facility. |
| Cincinnati / Southwest | H5 Cincinnati I–II; CyrusOne CIN2; Flexential Cincinnati4 physical facility records | CyrusOne reports 11 MW total IT capacity for CIN2; Flexential reports 3.80 MW critical-load UPS capacity. H5 comparable capacity is not established here. | CyrusOne CIN5 is grouped under Lebanon below. CIN2 and Flexential street addresses come from archived operator pages because the current pages do not show them. |
| Akron / Canton | ark Akron I–II and Canton3 physical facility records | ark lists 1.5 MW utility power capacity for Canton; Akron’s two-site allocation remains unresolved. | The operator establishes two Akron facility IDs, but this pass does not invent separate addresses or capacities. |
| Lebanon | CyrusOne CIN51 physical facility record | CyrusOne reports 12 MW total IT capacity. | This is Lebanon, Ohio—not Meta’s separate Lebanon, Indiana project. |
| Facility / operator | Status | Capacity | Location | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
operatingCompany Cologix — COL1 |
operatingoperator-listed current facility | UnknownNo independently supported figure | Columbus | Cologix Columbus facilities →Company |
operatingCompany Cologix — COL2 |
operatingoperator-listed current facility | UnknownNo independently supported figure | Columbus | Cologix Columbus facilities →Company |
operatingCompany Cologix — COL3 |
operatingoperator-listed current facility | more than 18 MWCapacity type not recorded · building scope | Columbus | Cologix Columbus facilities →Company |
operatingCompany Cologix — COL4 |
operatingoperator-listed current facility | UnknownNo independently supported figure | Columbus | Cologix Columbus facilities →Company |
proposedCompany Cologix — COL5 |
proposeddevelopment; operator says expected RFS Q3 2026 | UnknownNo independently supported figure | Columbus | Cologix Columbus facilities →Company |
preleasingCompany Cologix — COL7 |
preleasingpreleasing; not established as operating | UnknownNo independently supported figure | Johnstown | Cologix Columbus facilities →Company |
preleasingCompany Cologix — COL8 |
preleasingpreleasing; not established as operating | UnknownNo independently supported figure | Johnstown | Cologix Columbus facilities →Company |
operatingCompany Expedient — CMH1 / Upper Arlington |
operatingoperator-listed current facility | 1.6 MWCritical IT · building scope | Upper Arlington | Expedient Columbus facilities →Company |
operatingCompany Expedient — CMH2 / Dublin |
operatingoperator-listed current facility | 4.8 MWCritical IT · building scope | Dublin | Expedient Columbus facilities →Company |
operatingCompany Expedient — CMH3 / Lewis Center |
operatingoperator-listed current facility | 7 MWCritical IT · building scope | Lewis Center | Expedient Columbus facilities →Company |
operatingCompany Expedient — CLE1 |
operatingoperator-listed current facility | 2.7 MWCritical IT · building scope | Cleveland | Expedient Cleveland facilities →Company |
operatingCompany Expedient — CLE2 |
operatingoperator-listed current facility | 2 MWCritical IT · building scope | Cleveland | Expedient Cleveland facilities →Company |
operatingCompany ark data centers — Akron I |
operatingoperator-listed current facility; address unresolved | UnknownNo independently supported figure | Akron | ark Ohio locations →Company |
operatingCompany ark data centers — Akron II |
operatingoperator-listed current facility; address unresolved | UnknownNo independently supported figure | Akron | ark Ohio locations →Company |
operatingCompany ark data centers — Canton |
operatingoperator-listed current facility; address unresolved | 1.5 MWUtility service · building scope | Canton | ark Ohio facilities →Company |
operatingCompany ark data centers — Cleveland |
operatingoperator-listed current facility; address unresolved | 1 MWCapacity type not recorded · building scope | Cleveland | ark Cleveland facility →Company |
operatingCompany H5 Data Centers — Cleveland Technology Center |
operatingoperator-listed current facility | UnknownNo independently supported figure | Cleveland | H5 Cleveland data center →Company |
operatingCompany H5 Data Centers — Cincinnati I |
operatingoperator-listed current facility | UnknownNo independently supported figure | Cincinnati | H5 Cincinnati I →Company |
operatingCompany H5 Data Centers — Cincinnati II |
operatingoperator-listed current facility | UnknownNo independently supported figure | Cincinnati | H5 Cincinnati II →Company |
operatingCompany CyrusOne — CIN2 |
operatingoperator-listed current facility | 11 MWGross facility power · building scope | Cincinnati | CyrusOne Cincinnati CIN2 →Company |
operatingCompany CyrusOne — CIN5 |
operatingoperator-listed current facility; address unresolved | 12 MWGross facility power · building scope | Lebanon | CyrusOne Lebanon CIN5 →Company |
operatingCompany DataBank — CLE1 |
operatingoperator-listed current facility | 0.4 MWCritical IT · building scope | Cleveland | DataBank Cleveland facility →Company |
operatingCompany Flexential — Cincinnati |
operatingoperator-listed current facility | 3.8 MWCritical IT · building scope | West Chester Township | Flexential Cincinnati data center →Company |
constructionCompany QTS Data Centers — New Albany 1 DC1 |
constructionQTS lists the campus as In Development on its U.S. locations page, captured 3 November 2026; operator-classified campus status, not a building-level milestone. | UnknownNo independently supported figure | New Albany | QTS New Albany 1 campus →Company |
constructionCompany QTS Data Centers — New Albany 1 DC2 |
constructionQTS lists the campus as In Development on its U.S. locations page, captured 3 November 2026; operator-classified campus status, not a building-level milestone. | UnknownNo independently supported figure | New Albany | QTS New Albany 1 campus →Company |
constructionCompany QTS Data Centers — New Albany 2 DC1 |
constructionQTS lists the campus as In Development on its U.S. locations page, captured 3 November 2026; operator-classified campus status, not a building-level milestone. | UnknownNo independently supported figure | New Albany | QTS New Albany 2 campus →Company |
constructionCompany QTS Data Centers — New Albany 2 DC2 |
constructionQTS lists the campus as In Development on its U.S. locations page, captured 3 November 2026; operator-classified campus status, not a building-level milestone. | UnknownNo independently supported figure | New Albany | QTS New Albany 2 campus →Company |
operatingCompany STACK Infrastructure — NAL01A |
operatingoperator-listed current/available building | 11 MWCritical IT · building scope | New Albany | STACK NAL01 campus →Company |
approvedCompany STACK Infrastructure — NAL01BDated events: Development plan approved · 15 December 2025 |
approvedin development; final development plan approved 2025-12-15; parcel still classed as vacant land | 51 MWCritical IT · building scope | New Albany | STACK NAL01 campus →Company |
Open data includes every row, review status and current source: Ohio physical-facility JSON. These 29 rows and the 20 separately typed register rows are intentionally non-additive.
Major-project first pass
A mixed record register, with incompatible units left intact.
The register contains 19 project or campus records and 1 operating-facility record. These rows prioritize current primary or first-party records. A company page can establish what a company claims; it does not independently prove delivery. Open each source directly.
| Record / operator | Stage | Comparable size | Investment / jobs | What the source establishes | Primary evidence |
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operatingCompany Google — New Albany campusAlso listed as dcd-dir-000729 in the licensed third-party directory; that directory row is not independently verified. |
operatingOperating evidence | UnknownNo independently supported figure | Part of Google's $20B+ Ohio investment-to-date claim; site allocation not disclosedNot site-quantified in reviewed sources | Google lists the campus and publishes a trailing-12-month campus PUE, which it says it reports only after at least 12 months of data. Licking County parcel 094-106896-00.000 at 1101 Beech Rd SW, owner Montauk Innovations LLC, municipality New Albany, resolves the campus county; it is not a building count and does not prove every later expansion uses one parcel. |
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operatingCompany Google — Lancaster campusAlso listed as dcd-dir-000719 in the licensed third-party directory; that directory row is not independently verified. |
operatingOperating evidence | UnknownNo independently supported figure | Part of Google's $20B+ Ohio investment-to-date claim; site allocation not disclosedNot site-quantified in reviewed sources | Google lists the campus and publishes a trailing-12-month campus PUE; no comparable project demand was found. |
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operatingCompany Google — Columbus campus |
operatingOperating evidence | UnknownNo independently supported figure | Part of Google's $20B+ Ohio investment-to-date claim; site allocation not disclosedNot site-quantified in reviewed sources | Google lists the campus and publishes a trailing-12-month campus PUE; cloud-region operation is not used as a building count. |
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expandingGov. record Amazon Web Services — New Albany expansion |
expandingOperating campus; construction continuing | UnknownNo independently supported figure | AWS says $6.2B invested in Licking County during 2015–2024; not a single-building amountAWS model says 1,550 FTE jobs supported annually in Licking County; not observed permanent campus headcount | New Albany lists multiple AWS buildings in construction updates. AWS's economic figures are regional and model-based. |
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proposedCompany Amazon Web Services — Fayette County site |
proposedAnnounced / planned | UnknownNo independently supported figure | $5B estimated investmentNot site-quantified in reviewed source | AWS calls Fayette County the first of up to eight new Ohio sites contemplated by 2030. The announcement is not proof of completed investment or operation. |
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expandingCompany Meta — New Albany campus / Prometheus expansion |
expandingOperating campus; major expansion | at least 1 GWCompany-announced design · campus scope | $1.5B+ campus investment listed by Meta; Prometheus scope not separately reconciled300+ operational jobs supported once completed; company claim | Meta lists the New Albany campus and says the expanded facility will have at least 1 GW of capacity once construction is complete. Licking County parcels 094-106914-00.000 and 094-107100-00.001 (1500 Beech Rd SW) and 095-112218-00.000 (Green Chapel Rd), owner Sidecat LLC, municipality New Albany, resolve the campus county. Prometheus remains a company-described expansion; the parcels are not additional campuses or a capacity proof. |
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constructionCompany Meta — Bowling Green campus |
constructionUnder construction | UnknownNo independently supported figure | $800M+ company commitment1,000+ skilled trade workers at peak; approximately 100 operating jobs once completed | Meta lists a 2025 groundbreaking and prospective job figures. None are treated as observed permanent employment. |
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constructionCompany Microsoft — New Albany campus |
constructionMicrosoft's October 2026 construction update says early construction works at the New Albany site are complete and that limited activity may be visible through the fall and winter as maintenance work is performed. The same page still says Microsoft is building a datacenter there and establishes no opening or operating date for this site. | UnknownNo independently supported figure | Not site-quantified in reviewed sourceApproximately 50 employees per building once operational; company projection | Microsoft's October 2026 update says early construction works are complete and that community engagement has moved from the general contractor back to Microsoft; its July 2026 update called the same work nearing completion and its earlier updates describe it as site preparation. The page says completion of construction does not indicate datacenter operation or availability. Microsoft's June 2026 county impact brief, which covers Licking County rather than this site alone, says three datacenters are to be operational by the end of 2029. |
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constructionCompany Microsoft — Heath campusAlso listed as dcd-dir-000981 in the licensed third-party directory; that directory row is not independently verified. |
constructionSite preparation | UnknownNo independently supported figure | Not site-quantified in reviewed sourceApproximately 50 employees per building once operational; company projection | Microsoft reported site preparation and said vertical-construction timing had not yet been determined in July 2026. |
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constructionCompany Microsoft — Hebron campusAlso listed as dcd-dir-000982 in the licensed third-party directory; that directory row is not independently verified. |
constructionSite preparation | UnknownNo independently supported figure | Not site-quantified in reviewed sourceApproximately 50 employees per building once operational; company projection | Microsoft reported grading and substation work in July 2026 and explicitly warns that construction completion does not mean operation. |
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constructionCompany Vantage Data Centers — OH1 campus |
constructionConstruction recorded on a dated city project-updates page; opening unverified. The operator page still carries a December 2025 first-building target and does not confirm opening. | 192 MWCritical IT · campus scope | $2B+ company commitment1,500 across construction and long-term operations; categories not separately quantified in launch release | Vantage plans three buildings totaling 192 MW of planned critical IT load. Its page projected a December 2025 first-building opening; the reviewed evidence does not independently confirm that milestone, so opening remains unknown and the target is stale. Licking County parcel 095-111756-00.009 resolves the campus county. The parcel is not an operating proof. |
Vantage OH1 campus overview →CompanyNew Albany construction projects →Gov. recordLicking County parcel 095-111756-00.009 →Gov. record |
proposedCompany Vantage Data Centers — OH2 Millersport campus |
proposedDevelopment | 696 MWCritical IT · campus scope | $2.1B+ company commitment2,500+ construction jobs and 50+ permanent Vantage positions; company projection | Vantage describes a planned 696 MW critical-IT campus. Fairfield Energy says it submitted OPSB Case 26-0160-EL-BGN for up to 1,350 MW net gas generation plus approximately 1,040 MW of battery storage. Those generation and storage figures are not data-center IT capacity and cannot be summed with 696 MW. The developer page establishes an application, not a certificate or construction authorization. The claim of no local rate impact is a company prediction, not an observed outcome. |
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constructionCompany QTS Data Centers — New Albany 1 campus |
constructionQTS's U.S. locations page, captured 3 November 2026, lists New Albany 1 as In Development; operator-classified, not a construction or opening milestone. The campus page captured the same day no longer carries that label. | UnknownNo independently supported figure | QTS announced roughly $1.5B for a New Albany campus in 2023; relationship to today's New Albany 1 and New Albany 2 labels is not fully reconciledHigh-tech full-time jobs and hundreds of construction/trade jobs anticipated; quantities not disclosed on campus page | QTS's U.S. locations page, captured 3 November 2026, lists New Albany 1 as In Development. The campus page captured the same day no longer uses that label; it still identifies two buildings and publishes both addresses. Licking County parcel 094-106404-00.011 resolves the operator page's New Albany/Etna locality conflict to New Albany. Neither source establishes a building-level energization or opening date. |
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constructionCompany QTS Data Centers — New Albany 2 campus |
constructionQTS's U.S. locations page, captured 3 November 2026, lists New Albany 2 as In Development; operator-classified, not a construction or opening milestone. The campus page captured the same day no longer carries that label. | UnknownNo independently supported figure | QTS announced roughly $1.5B for a New Albany campus in 2023; relationship to today's New Albany 1 and New Albany 2 labels is not fully reconciledHigh-tech full-time jobs and hundreds of construction/trade jobs anticipated; quantities not disclosed on campus page | QTS's U.S. locations page, captured 3 November 2026, lists New Albany 2 as In Development. The campus page captured the same day no longer uses that label; it still identifies two buildings and publishes both addresses. The pages do not establish a building-level energization or opening date. |
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proposedCompany QTS Data Centers — Van Wert campusAlso listed as dcd-dir-001226 in the licensed third-party directory; that directory row is not independently verified. Dated events: Stormwater permit notice filed · 21 July 2026 |
proposedAnnounced / early planning | UnknownNo independently supported figure | Up to $10B; company projectionMore than 1,500 construction jobs during a 5-6 year building phase and up to 200 full-time QTS positions depending on final design; company projection (the same page's summary says thousands of construction jobs and hundreds of full-time positions) | QTS says it expects seven buildings across approximately 902 acres and labels designs conceptual and still in planning. Its page also makes future energy-cost, water, jobs and tax claims that require later verification. QTS Realty Trust Inc. submitted an Ohio EPA construction-stormwater notice of intent for 'QTS Data Center' at 8002 Mendon Road (Pleasant and Ridge Townships) on July 21, 2026, proposing 792 acres of land disturbance. The application does not establish issued stormwater coverage or construction progress; its disturbance area is not the full company-described campus area. |
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operatingCompany STACK Infrastructure — NAL01 campus |
operatingOperator-marketed campus; building availability not independently audited | 60 MWCritical IT · campus scope | Not quantified in reviewed sourceNot quantified in reviewed source | STACK describes a two-building, 40-acre campus with 60 MW of critical capacity. Franklin County parcels 222-004355 and 222-005106 identify the NAL01A and NAL01B owners and place both sites in Franklin County. The building cards list 11 MW and 51 MW, which do not reconcile arithmetically to the 60 MW campus headline; all figures remain source-specific. The same page describes 48 MW of new capacity with secured utility power as part of the 60 MW campus figure. This statement does not establish energized load or capacity available to lease. |
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constructionCompany EdgeConneX — New Albany location |
constructionNew Albany's current-project list identifies the data building, and the city's proposed 2026 budget says EdgeConneX broke ground on associated generation. No operating milestone has been located. | UnknownNo independently supported figure | $1 billion contract commitment reported in Ohio Tax Credit Authority minutes; outcome not yet verified32 FTE and $4 million annual payroll commitments for 2026-2035; outcomes not yet verified | New Albany lists a 700,000-square-foot EdgeConneX data-building project at 2465 Clover Valley Road. Ohio Tax Credit Authority minutes approve a ten-year 50% sales/use-tax exemption tied to 32 FTE, $4 million annual payroll and $1 billion investment commitments. The city budget describes a 120 MW natural-gas project groundbreaking; 120 MW is associated generation, not critical IT capacity. |
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expandingGov. record Amazon — Scioto Darby campusDated events: Construction reported · 15 September 2025 |
expandingThe OPSB staff report describes an existing 142-acre, multi-building Amazon campus with a latest building under construction. Franklin County separately classifies the parcel as a data center. The campus is expanding; an exact original operating date was not established. | 72.9 MWPlanned on-site generation · site scope | Not established in reviewed sourcesNot established in reviewed sources | This record separates the existing campus from a disputed on-site generation proposal. Neither 328 MW of utility service nor 72.9 MW of planned generation is represented as critical IT capacity. |
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operatingCompany Edged — Columbus |
operatingEdged's September 11, 2025 announcement says the opening was celebrated the previous day. Franklin County separately identifies the parcel owner, exact address, data-center classification and assessed building area. | 24 MWCritical IT · building scope | Not established in reviewed sourcesNot established in reviewed sources | The operating milestone and 24 MW figure are operator-reported; the county record independently verifies the physical parcel and data-center land-use classification. |
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proposedGov. record The Constant Company — Springfield projectDated events: Tax exemption approved · 27 October 2025 |
proposedOhio Tax Credit Authority minutes approve an incentive for the project and its 2026-2035 term. The reviewed primary record does not establish construction or operation. | UnknownNo independently supported figure | $901,311,378 fixed-asset commitment; not an observed outcome20 FTE and $1.5 million new annual payroll commitments; not observed outcomes | The incentive recipient and commitments are primary-record facts. The roles of 5C Group and Vultr and the often-reported 150 MW figure remain held because the reviewed primary record does not establish them. |
Open data: Ohio project JSON. The two disclosed Vantage capacities are critical IT figures; Meta’s 1 GW is a company capacity description. They are not summed because their engineering and temporal boundaries are not yet reconciled.
The regulatory ledger
Two records worth watching.
Tariff and incentive rules create future verification hooks. The public value is not merely finding the rule—it is matching each beneficiary’s promise to later compliance records.
AEP Ohio Schedule DCT
Applies to new or expanded data-center loads over 25 MW. It includes load-study fees, ramp rules, minimum demand charges, collateral for weaker credits and 100% buildout reimbursement for certain pre-energization cancellation or delay.
Read current tariff guidance ↗Ohio Revised Code §122.175
Eligible projects require at least $100 million of capital investment and $1.5 million of annual payroll, with annual reporting of employment, withholding and investment. The governor paused consideration of new requests on May 27, 2026; the hard next step remains obtaining agreement- and taxpayer-level outcomes for benefits already granted.
Read the statute ↗Read a third-party archive of the pause announcement ↗Where the records were checked
Statewide audit pending
Enough to answer questions
This is still not a list of every data center in the state.
Statewide coverage is not complete. The records below are sourced; a full statewide count has not been published.
State research audit window ended 12 September 2026. Individual records and claims below show their own evidence dates and may be newer.
Coverage review was due 17 September 2026; no later coverage review is recorded as of 3 November 2026.
10 independently source-linked project/campus records; 4 independently source-linked facility/building records; 35 attributed or unresolved rows. These counts use different units and must not be added together.
Source families checked, selected records and remaining gaps
These notes name selected records, say which kinds of public evidence were checked and show what remains missing. They do not add anything to the published counts.
- Economic development incentives — Partly checked
- No index page listing Ohio Tax Credit Authority minutes was found; five probed 2026 minute URLs all returned unavailable during review, so 2026 exemption approvals were not enumerated.
- Minutes before October 2025 were not retrieved, so earlier exemption recipients (including the hyperscaler agreements referenced in secondary coverage) are unknown from primary records here.
- The governor's announcement pausing new data center exemptions returned unavailable during review on fetch, so the pause's exact scope and effective dates were not read.
- Ohio law makes applicant financial statements non-public, so the exemption agreements themselves were not sought.
Selected records
- Ohio Tax Credit Authority meeting minutes, October 27, 2025 · Ohio Department of Development / Ohio Tax Credit Authority
- Ohio Tax Credit Authority meeting minutes — additional 2026 meeting dates · Ohio Department of Development / Ohio Tax Credit Authority
- Governor DeWine Announces Pause of Data Center Tax Exemption · Office of the Governor of Ohio
- Utility commission and large-load records — Partly checked
- The DIS document-image endpoint (ViewImage.aspx) is blocked by a web application firewall, so no PUCO or OPSB filing PDF could be read; only docket cards were available.
- AEP Ohio's 09/11/2025 correspondence on signing up new Schedule DCT customers was identified on the docket card but could not be opened, so no DCT customer list was obtained.
- No customer-specific electric service agreement, large-load interconnection queue or PJM new-service-request record was reached for any Ohio site.
- Dockets for AES Ohio, Duke Energy Ohio and FirstEnergy's Ohio utilities were not searched, so the AWS Sidney (Project Galaxy) AES Ohio filings referenced in the Compute Atlas extract were not examined.
Selected records
- PUCO Docketing Information System case record 24-0508-EL-ATA (Ohio Power Company data center tariff) · Public Utilities Commission of Ohio
- PUCO Docketing Information System case record 25-0188-EL-BGN (Will-Power OH, LLC) · Ohio Power Siting Board
- PUCO Docketing Information System case record 25-0185-EL-BLN (Will-Power OH, LLC) · Ohio Power Siting Board
- Environmental and construction permits — Partly checked
- In this 12 September 2026 statewide pass, Ohio EPA's eDocument Search could not be queried, so the pass captured no permit-to-install, permit-to-install-and-operate or Title V permit number, and its generator and fuel-cell figures come from a city notice or the licensed dataset, not from a permit. A separately reviewed Ohio project record on this page cites one Ohio EPA construction stormwater notice of intent (QTS Data Center, 8002 Mendon Road).
- The Environmental Review Appeals Commission docket for the Hilliard appeal was not located, so no ERAC case number is recorded.
- This statewide pass did not search NPDES, stormwater construction general permit notices or water-withdrawal records. The Ohio EPA draft data-center general permit, its community notice and the QTS stormwater notice of intent cited on this page come from separately reviewed records.
- No county or municipal building, grading or generator permit record was retrieved for any Ohio research lead.
Selected records
- Ohio EPA Division of Air Pollution Control — Issued Air Permits · Ohio Environmental Protection Agency
- Ohio EPA eDocument Search · Ohio Environmental Protection Agency
- Hilliard to appeal EPA fuel cell permit for Amazon site · City of Hilliard, Ohio
- Local planning, assessor and map records — Checked
- Only three of Ohio's eighty-eight counties were queried. Clark, Wood, Miami, Shelby, Fayette, Clinton, Butler, Stark, Summit, Cuyahoga, Portage, Trumbull, Coshocton, Erie, Delaware, Fairfield, Pike, Scioto, Lawrence, Allen, Van Wert, Monroe, Adams and Preble all have data center activity in the Compute Atlas extract and none of their assessor systems was reached.
- No planning commission, zoning board, city council agenda or minutes document was retrieved for any Ohio jurisdiction; the City of Pataskala's website did not resolve.
- The Licking County owner-name sweep was keyed on operator names, so data center owners holding land under unrelated LLC names in Licking County remain unfound; the MONTAUK query only ran because the abatement sweep surfaced the name by accident.
- Franklin County's 'data center' class sweep does not capture sites under construction that have not yet been reclassified, nor enterprise data centers classed as office or warehouse.
Selected records
- Licking County Auditor parcel query — owner name contains AMAZON · Licking County Auditor / Licking County GIS
- Licking County Auditor parcel query — owner name contains VADATA · Licking County Auditor / Licking County GIS
- Licking County Auditor parcel query — owner name contains SIDECAT · Licking County Auditor / Licking County GIS
- Tax abatements and development agreements — Partly checked
- No executed agreement document was retrieved. Community Reinvestment Area agreements, TIF ordinances, development agreements and the New Albany JEDD/JEDZ instruments behind these abatements were not located or read.
- Ohio's annual CRA and TIF reports to the Department of Development, which would name the agreements and their terms, were not searched.
- The Sidney/Shelby County development agreement for the AWS Project Galaxy campus and the Fayette County 30-year CRA exemption referenced in the Compute Atlas extract were not sought.
- Abatement data was gathered only for Licking and Franklin counties.
Selected records
- Licking County Auditor parcel query — parcels carrying an abated improvement value · Licking County Auditor / Licking County GIS
- Operator disclosures — Partly checked
- Guessed hyperscaler URLs for Amazon, Meta and Vantage all returned unavailable during review and were not re-searched, so no first-party Amazon, Meta, Google, Microsoft, QTS, STACK, EdgeConneX, Aligned or Vantage location page was read for Ohio.
- Colocation operators present in Ohio but not checked include Expedient, H5, CyrusOne, DataBank, Flexential, T5, Iron Mountain, Ark Data Centers, Racksquared and DataYard.
- No operator sustainability, investor or SEC material was examined.
Selected records
- Socrates Power Solution Facilities · Williams Companies
- Cologix Columbus data centers · Cologix
- Open datasets and directories — Checked
- Roughly ninety Compute Atlas Ohio records were read but not turned into research leads, including large and contested projects such as AWS Sidney (Project Galaxy), AWS Fayette County, AWS Sprigg Township, AWS Wilmington, AWS Trenton, AWS Perry Township, Aligned Conesville, Aligned NEO-01, Aligned Chillicothe, Stargate Lordstown, the PORTS-Pike technology campus, Bitdeer Clarington and Shalersville, Google's Lima Project BOSC and Franklin Furnace Project Dazzler, Meta Piqua Project Klondike, CyrusOne New Albany COL-1, MARA Findlay and the Oregon Industrial Park campus. Each would need its own county-level primary record. QTS Van Wert and Vantage OH2 Millersport are covered by separately researched Ohio project records on this page.
- No unlicensed directory (Data Center Map, Baxtel, datacenters.com, Cloudscene, PeeringDB) was consulted at all, so provider-presence and colocation coverage in the current research record is thin.
- FracTracker and other advocacy trackers were not used.
Selected records
- Compute Atlas state extract for Ohio (110 records) · Compute Atlas
- Closures, withdrawals and former names — Partly checked
- No primary record of any cancellation was obtained. The City of Pataskala's website hostname did not resolve, and the two news reports of the council denial were seen only as search results and not yet reviewed directly.
- No corporate filing, deed or Secretary of State record was used to confirm the Involta-to-Ark rename or the ownership entities behind SI NAL01A ABS LLC, Montauk Innovations LLC, Magellan Enterprises LLC, Sidecat LLC, CLOP Hilliard LLC or Continental Broadband LLC.
- Archived versions of operator and city pages were not consulted, so earlier names, withdrawn phases and superseded capacity claims were not recovered.
- Older Ohio closures and demolitions (pre-2024 colocation consolidations, the DataBank/Involta and Expedient acquisitions listed in the canonical lifecycle-events file) were not searched.
Selected records
- News and other discovery — Partly checked
- No news article was opened in the current review; all news sources are search-result-only.
- Local reporting on individual county projects (Stark, Portage, Trumbull, Adams, Shelby, Clinton, Butler) was not read, so the discovery pipeline for those counties rests entirely on the Compute Atlas extract.
Selected records
- PUCO orders AEP Ohio to create data center specific tariff · Public Utilities Commission of Ohio
Local evidence by place
Licensed and operator listings, reviewed records, answers and local policy for each place. Listings overlap and are not added; a place without a line here has no published local evidence.
- New Albany · 17 licensed · 2 operator-listed · reviewed: Google — New Albany campus (1 answer), Meta — New Albany campus / Prometheus expansion (1 answer), Microsoft — New Albany campus (1 answer), Vantage Data Centers — OH1 campus (1 answer) and 55 more reviewed records
- Millersport · 1 licensed · reviewed: Vantage Data Centers — OH2 Millersport campus (2 answers)
- Heath · 1 licensed · reviewed: Microsoft — Heath campus (1 answer)
- Hebron · 1 licensed · reviewed: Microsoft — Hebron campus (1 answer)
- Lancaster · 1 licensed · reviewed: Google — Lancaster campus (1 answer)
- Columbus · 7 licensed · 5 operator-listed · reviewed: Cologix — COL1, Cologix — COL2 and 4 more reviewed records · no local evidence answer
- Cleveland · 5 licensed · 4 operator-listed · reviewed: ark data centers — Cleveland, DataBank — CLE1 and 3 more reviewed records · local policy: Cleveland: standalone data center permit pause extended to 29 January 2027 (Emergency Ordinance 1246-2026), Cleveland: temporary moratorium on data center permits (Ord. 556-2026) · no local evidence answer
- Cincinnati · 3 licensed · 2 operator-listed · reviewed: CyrusOne — CIN2, H5 Data Centers — Cincinnati I and 1 more reviewed record · no local evidence answer
- Akron · 4 licensed · reviewed: ark data centers — Akron I, ark data centers — Akron II · no local evidence answer
- Johnstown · 3 licensed · reviewed: Cologix — COL7, Cologix — COL8 · no local evidence answer
- Bowling Green · 1 licensed · reviewed: Meta — Bowling Green campus · no local evidence answer
- Canton · 2 licensed · reviewed: ark data centers — Canton · no local evidence answer
- Dublin · 1 licensed · 1 operator-listed · reviewed: Expedient — CMH2 / Dublin · no local evidence answer
- Fayette County · reviewed: Amazon Web Services — Fayette County site · no local evidence answer
- Hilliard · 3 licensed · reviewed: Amazon — Scioto Darby campus · no local evidence answer
- Lebanon · 1 licensed · 2 operator-listed · reviewed: CyrusOne — CIN5 · no local evidence answer
- Lewis Center · 3 licensed · 1 operator-listed · reviewed: Expedient — CMH3 / Lewis Center · no local evidence answer
- Springfield · 1 licensed · reviewed: The Constant Company — Springfield project · no local evidence answer
- Upper Arlington · 1 licensed · reviewed: Expedient — CMH1 / Upper Arlington · no local evidence answer
- Van Wert · 1 licensed · reviewed: QTS Data Centers — Van Wert campus · no local evidence answer
- West Chester Township · 1 licensed · reviewed: Flexential — Cincinnati · no local evidence answer
- Barberton · local policy: Barberton: council moratorium on data centers within the city (Ordinance No. 157-2025) · no local evidence answer
- Cortland · local policy: Cortland: pause of up to one year on data center permit applications (Ordinance O-21-26) · no local evidence answer
- Florence Township (Erie County) · local policy: Florence Township (Erie County): 12-month pause on data center zoning permits (Resolution 2026-25) · no local evidence answer
- Monclova Township · local policy: Monclova Township: 12-month pause on data center applications and approvals (Resolution 02172026-01) · no local evidence answer
- Vermilion · local policy: Vermilion: data center development moratorium through 23 March 2027 (Ordinance 2026-17) · no local evidence answer
No local evidence answer, reviewed record or local policy record is published for Hamilton, Lordstown, Plain City. Their listings above are source listings to investigate. Nearest statewide answers for Ohio: Treating New Albany's no-additional-capacity statement as proof that facility-level water impact is negligible; Ohio has more than 200 data centers; Reading Ohio's equipment sales-and-use-tax exemption as meaning a qualifying project pays no taxes.
2 Ohio answers are not tied to a published record, so they are not placed here: Ohio answers.
Policy tracker
Ohio policy records
25 sourced records are associated with this state context. They are grouped below as current, pending and nonbinding, and history, and each card shows its relevant date. These are not facility counts and do not cover every locality.
Current 9 records
Recorded as in effect on the dataset date. This does not mean every project in a represented state is restricted or approved.
Local construction moratorium · Cleveland only (local rule)
Cleveland: standalone data center permit pause extended to 29 January 2027 (Emergency Ordinance 1246-2026)
In effect · City of Cleveland, Ohio · Local
Effective: 19 October 2026
Issuing authority: Cleveland City Council
Cleveland City Council passed Emergency Ordinance No. 1246-2026 on 19 October 2026, and the council's legislative record lists the same day as its effective date.
Enacted legislation or regulation
AEP Ohio Schedule DCT data center tariff sheets
In effect · AEP Ohio (Ohio Power Company) service territory, Ohio · Utility territory
Source document: 28 August 2026
Issuing authority: Ohio Power Company (AEP Ohio)
AEP Ohio's Schedule DCT is the data center tariff in Ohio Power Company's current tariff book.
Enacted legislation or regulation
PUCO interim SSO rules for AEP Ohio data center customers
In effect · AEP Ohio service territory, Ohio · State
Effective: 28 August 2026
Issuing authority: Public Utilities Commission of Ohio
On 5 August 2026 the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio granted AEP Ohio interim relief for data center customers on its data center tariff (Schedule DCT) who return to the standard service offer.
Local construction moratorium · Cleveland only (local rule)
Cleveland: temporary moratorium on data center permits (Ord. 556-2026)
In effect · City of Cleveland, Ohio · Local
Effective: 20 July 2026
Issuing authority: Cleveland City Council
Cleveland City Council approved Emergency Ordinance No. 556-2026 as amended on 15 July 2026; the city Legistar record lists an effective date of 20 July 2026.
Statewide permit or approval pause
Pause on new data-center exemption requests
In effect · Ohio · State
Effective: 27 May 2026
Issuing authority: Governor of Ohio
On May 27, 2026, Governor Mike DeWine said he had directed the chair of the Ohio Tax Credit Authority to pause consideration of new data-center tax-exemption requests while a Joint Data Center Committee studies data-center growth.
Read the sourced record · Primary source · Archived copy (1 September 2026)
Local construction moratorium · Monclova Township only (local rule)
Monclova Township: 12-month pause on data center applications and approvals (Resolution 02172026-01)
In effect · Monclova Township, Ohio · Local
Effective: 17 February 2026
Issuing authority: Monclova Township Board of Trustees
On 17 February 2026 the Monclova Township Board of Trustees adopted Resolution 02172026-01, a resolution imposing a temporary moratorium on the approval, establishment or construction of any data center in the township, with all three trustees named in the roll call voting yes.
Incentive or explicitly supportive policy
Data center equipment sales-tax exemption
In effect · Ohio · State
Source document: 30 September 2025
Issuing authority: Ohio General Assembly
Ohio Revised Code section 122.175, as published on the official code site with an effective date of 30 September 2025 for the current text, lets the tax credit authority grant a full or partial sales-and-use tax exemption for computer data center equipment at an eligible computer data center.
Enacted legislation or regulation
PUCO denial of rehearing on the AEP Ohio data center tariff
In effect · AEP Ohio service territory, Ohio · State
Source document: 3 September 2025
Issuing authority: Public Utilities Commission of Ohio
On 3 September 2025 the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio denied every application for rehearing of its order adopting a data center tariff for AEP Ohio in Case No. 24-508-EL-ATA and affirmed that order's determinations.
Enacted legislation or regulation
PUCO approval of AEP Ohio data center tariff pages
In effect · AEP Ohio service territory, Ohio · State
Source document: 23 July 2025
Issuing authority: Public Utilities Commission of Ohio
On 23 July 2025 the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio approved the final Schedule DCT tariff pages that AEP Ohio filed on 11 July 2025.
Pending or nonbinding 15 records
Adopted measures with unverified effect, adopted future measures, open proceedings, proposals, drafts and nonbinding context stay separate from current rules.
Regulatory or tariff proceeding
PUCO review of FirstEnergy Ohio utilities' proposed data center tariff
Pending proceeding · Ohio Edison, Cleveland Electric Illuminating and Toledo Edison service territories, Ohio · State
Source document: 7 July 2026
Issuing authority: Public Utilities Commission of Ohio
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio is reviewing a proposed Data Center Tariff (Schedule DCT) for the three FirstEnergy Ohio utilities, Ohio Edison, Cleveland Electric Illuminating and Toledo Edison.
Local construction moratorium · Cortland only (local rule)
Cortland: pause of up to one year on data center permit applications (Ordinance O-21-26)
Adopted; effective status unverified · Cortland, Ohio · Local
Adopted: 1 June 2026
Issuing authority: Cortland City Council
On 1 June 2026 the Cortland City Council suspended its rules and passed Ordinance O-21-26 as an emergency measure, with six ayes and one abstention, according to the council minutes.
Local construction moratorium · Florence Township (Erie County) only (local rule)
Florence Township (Erie County): 12-month pause on data center zoning permits (Resolution 2026-25)
Adopted; effective status unverified · Florence Township (Erie County), Ohio · Local
Adopted: 6 May 2026
Issuing authority: Florence Township Board of Trustees
The Florence Township Board of Trustees in Erie County approved Resolution No. 2026-25 by a 2-0 vote at its regular meeting on 6 May 2026, according to the meeting minutes.
Local construction moratorium · Barberton only (local rule)
Barberton: council moratorium on data centers within the city (Ordinance No. 157-2025)
Adopted; effective status unverified · Barberton, Ohio · Local
Adopted: 10 November 2025
Issuing authority: Barberton City Council
Barberton City Council's No. 157-2025, headed as a resolution and titled as an emergency ordinance, states that Council imposes a moratorium on data centers within Barberton; the copy read shows it passed on 10 November 2025.
Legislation introduced (any outcome)
H.B. 646 Data Center Study Commission bill (pending)
Proposed · Ohio · State
Last checked: 2 October 2026
Issuing authority: Ohio General Assembly
House Bill 646 would create a Data Center Study Commission and change several Ohio Revised Code sections about data centers, including the data center sales tax exemption statute, section 122.175.
Legislation introduced (any outcome)
House Bill 706 (2026) on minimum requirements for data center customers (pending)
Proposed · Ohio · State
Last checked: 2 October 2026
Issuing authority: Ohio General Assembly
Ohio House Bill 706 of the 136th General Assembly would create a new Revised Code chapter imposing minimum requirements on data center customers (of utilities) in Ohio.
Legislation introduced (any outcome)
House Bill 710 (2026) to prohibit public support for and limit construction of new data centers (pending)
Proposed · Ohio · State
Last checked: 2 October 2026
Issuing authority: Ohio General Assembly
Ohio House Bill 710 of the 136th General Assembly would prohibit public support for new data centers and limit their construction.
Legislation introduced (any outcome)
House Bill 784 (2026) on data center water consumption reports (pending)
Proposed · Ohio · State
Last checked: 2 October 2026
Issuing authority: Ohio General Assembly
Ohio House Bill 784 of the 136th General Assembly would require data centers to report their monthly and yearly water consumption and would bar data centers from putting water consumption information under nondisclosure agreements with political subdivisions.
Legislation introduced (any outcome)
House Bill 957 (2026) to prohibit new data center sales tax exemptions (pending)
Proposed · Ohio · State
Last checked: 2 October 2026
Issuing authority: Ohio General Assembly
Ohio House Bill 957 of the 136th General Assembly would amend the data center sales tax exemption statute, R.C. 122.175, so that no new exemptions are granted.
Legislation introduced (any outcome)
H.B. 983 Data Center Accountability and Citizen Protection Act (introduced)
Proposed · Ohio · State
Last checked: 2 October 2026
Issuing authority: Ohio General Assembly
House Bill 983, introduced in the Ohio House on 28 July 2026, would enact the Data Center Accountability and Citizen Protection Act, a new set of Revised Code sections imposing various requirements concerning data centers, and would declare an emergency.
Legislation introduced (any outcome)
House Bill 999 (2026) to prohibit property tax exemptions for data centers (pending)
Proposed · Ohio · State
Last checked: 2 October 2026
Issuing authority: Ohio General Assembly
Ohio House Bill 999 of the 136th General Assembly would bar property tax exemptions for data centers.
Legislation introduced (any outcome)
S.B. 374 bill to stop new data center sales tax exemptions (pending)
Proposed · Ohio · State
Last checked: 2 October 2026
Issuing authority: Ohio General Assembly
Senate Bill 374 would amend Ohio Revised Code section 122.175 so that no new data center sales tax exemptions could be granted.
Legislation introduced (any outcome)
Senate Bill 378 (2026), Responsible Water Use by Data Centers Act (pending)
Proposed · Ohio · State
Last checked: 2 October 2026
Issuing authority: Ohio General Assembly
Ohio Senate Bill 378 of the 136th General Assembly, the Responsible Water Use by Data Centers Act, would regulate water withdrawal and consumptive use by data centers under the state water-resources chapter.
Legislation introduced (any outcome)
Senate Bill 381 (2026) requiring PUCO approval of data center grid interconnection agreements (pending)
Proposed · Ohio · State
Last checked: 2 October 2026
Issuing authority: Ohio General Assembly
Ohio Senate Bill 381 of the 136th General Assembly would require Public Utilities Commission approval of agreements to interconnect data centers to the grid.
Local construction moratorium · Vermilion only (local rule)
Vermilion: data center development moratorium through 23 March 2027 (Ordinance 2026-17)
Adopted; effective status unverified · City of Vermilion, Ohio · Local
Adopted: 20 April 2026
Issuing authority: Vermilion City Council
The City of Vermilion posted Ordinance 2026-17 as adopted on 20 April 2026.
History 1 record
Expired, repealed, vetoed, failed, blocked, superseded and completed measures remain visible without being presented as current.
Legislation introduced (any outcome)
H.B. 96 cutoff on new data center exemption agreements (item vetoed)
Vetoed · Ohio · State
Ended: 30 June 2025
Issuing authority: Ohio General Assembly
The General Assembly's version of the 2025 state budget bill, Amended Substitute House Bill 96, would have stopped the Ohio Tax Credit Authority from entering into new computer data center sales and use tax exemption agreements beginning on 1 October 2025.
Reporting or resource-use requirement · Listed coverage: part of Ohio
PJM: Large Load definition and registry accepted by FERC; capacity and curtailment rules rejected (ER26-3515)
In effect · PJM region (multistate) · Regional grid
Effective: 12 October 2026
Issuing authority: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
On 9 October 2026 the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission accepted, effective 12 October 2026, PJM's definition of a Large Load at a cumulative peak of 50 MW and a Large Load Registry that requires load-serving entities to report on the Large Loads they serve, which the order says covers all such loads regardless of in-service date.
Review dates: the 25 Ohio records were last checked 22 September 2026 to 3 November 2026. 15 scheduled reviews are overdue as of the tracker date 3 November 2026: PUCO interim SSO rules for AEP Ohio data center customers, Cleveland: temporary moratorium on data center permits (Ord. 556-2026), H.B. 646 Data Center Study Commission bill (pending), House Bill 706 (2026) on minimum requirements for data center customers (pending), House Bill 710 (2026) to prohibit public support for and limit construction of new data centers (pending), House Bill 784 (2026) on data center water consumption reports (pending), House Bill 957 (2026) to prohibit new data center sales tax exemptions (pending), H.B. 983 Data Center Accountability and Citizen Protection Act (introduced), House Bill 999 (2026) to prohibit property tax exemptions for data centers (pending), S.B. 374 bill to stop new data center sales tax exemptions (pending), Senate Bill 378 (2026), Responsible Water Use by Data Centers Act (pending), Senate Bill 381 (2026) requiring PUCO approval of data center grid interconnection agreements (pending) (last checked 2 October 2026, review due 30 October 2026); Data center equipment sales-tax exemption, PUCO denial of rehearing on the AEP Ohio data center tariff (last checked 23 September 2026, review due 23 October 2026); PUCO approval of AEP Ohio data center tariff pages (last checked 22 September 2026, review due 22 October 2026). Overdue means not re-read yet, not changed. No single record, and not this list, establishes complete statewide policy coverage.