Project Mila

CORROBORATED

Compiled civic tracking and local reporting place Project Mila on ~141 acres in the Trenton Industrial Park near Kennel and Woodsdale roads, purchased from the City of Trenton for $7.75M in October 2025, with ~899,065 sf of building and ~250 MW planned.

Key data: ~141 ac bought from City of Trenton for $7.75M (Oct 2025); 899,065 sf; ~250 MW

Limitation: Advocacy-site compilation; deed and parcel not independently retrieved. Local reporting: https://www.wvxu.org/local-news/2026-03-25/data-center-trenton-plans-pushback

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AEP Ohio serves the site, and the project is tied to a PUCO-approved data center tariff requiring 85% minimum billing effective July 23, 2025; substation grading has begun.

Key data: AEP Ohio; PUCO-approved 85% minimum-billing data center tariff effective 7/23/2025

Limitation: Specific interconnection agreement number not identified.

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Reporting describes City of Trenton municipal water service with wastewater conveyed to Butler County, and roughly $120,000/year in utility fees.

Key data: Trenton municipal water; wastewater to Butler County; ~$120k/yr utility fees

Limitation: No water service agreement document retrieved.

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VERIFIED_PRIMARY

The City of Trenton publishes its Planning & Zoning department phone numbers and City Hall address.

Key data: Trenton Planning & Zoning 513-988-6307 (alt. 513-428-0176), City Hall 11 E. State St.

Limitation: No named case planner published.

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"received site plan review approval"; commissioners "voted unanimously to approve Prologis' site plan"; stormwater and other technical components "still under review by city engineering staff"

Key data: More than 140 acres; 880,000 square feet; four buildings; one electrical substation

Status date: Article dated March 30, 2026 (meeting described as "Monday")

Limitation: Could not reach a Trenton, OH planning-commission agenda/minutes packet or case number; the 250 MW figure circulating in trackers was not in any source fetched here.

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Data retrieved

Trenton site block group is high-income, low-minority; state PM2.5 EJ percentile 53.

Key data: BG 390170118003: 7.7% people of color, $95,341 median HH income; US pctiles 41/30/45/40/15/28; state PM2.5 pctile 53

Status date: 2026-08-29

Limitation: Same caveats.

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Litigation filed

Residents filed suit to stop the project and police were present at a council meeting; the planning commission had approved the project in roughly ten minutes.

Key data: Planning commission approval in ~10 minutes on 2026-03-30; residents' suit filed

Status date: 2026-08-07

Limitation: The 10-minute approval detail comes from advocacy site [stopohiodatacenters.org](https://stopohiodatacenters.org/); court, case number, and plaintiff names not obtained. Transparency demands also reported by [WCPO](https://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/butler-county/trenton/trenton-residents-demand-transparency-as-data-center-construction-begins).

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Acquired; construction begun

Prologis assembled a large land parcel in Trenton for the campus.

Key data: 141 acres purchased for ~$7.7M

Status date: 2026-08

Limitation: Project scale of ~$233.2M / 250 MW from aggregator [Compute Atlas](https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/prologis-mila-trenton-oh) — DISCOVERY_LEAD quality for those two numbers.

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Approved

Trenton granted a long-term Community Reinvestment Area abatement plus a 30-year TIF district, the most generous incentive package found among the Ohio anchors.

Key data: 15-year, 75% CRA property tax abatement approved 2026-07-09; 30-year TIF district

Status date: 2026-07-09

Limitation: TIF detail from [Cincinnati Enquirer](https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2026/08/18/amazon-data-center-proposed-trenton-ohio/91291015007/). Net fiscal effect on Edgewood schools not quantified in fetched sources.

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