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Ohio data center and compute infrastructure map

Start with the state view and mapped project locations, then move into permits, planning, civic context, operators and source evidence. Only locations supported by explicit coordinates are plotted.

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Evidence-backed project locations

Ohio project points

Only records with explicit published coordinates are plotted here. Missing coordinates remain visible in the evidence sections rather than being guessed.

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Socrates South (200 MW)Licking County / New AlbanyGEM wiki records coordinates for Socrates South and lists Will-Power OH LLC as owner with Williams Companies as parent; Williams publishes a combined Socrates North & South fact sheet.discovery leadOpen source →
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Current development signals

Permits, filings, zoning and other activity

11 source-backed evidence rows are integrated on this page.

Aligned Data Centers – CMH01, 6770 Mink Street, Pataskala, OH 43062

Licking County / Pataskala

Developer / operator: Aligned Data Centers

Status: "Draft Permit to Install - Subject to Revision"

Permit / docket: P0140511

Record type: Initial Permit to Install (PTI), air pollution program — 129 emergency generators

Capacity / size: 129 emergency generators; MW and sq ft not stated

VERIFIED PRIMARY

Limitation: Notice page gives no MW, acreage, or square footage. Comment period closes on the retrieval date.

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EdgeConneX New Albany North, 3356 Clover Valley Road NW, New Albany, OH 43031

Licking County / New Albany

Developer / operator: EdgeConneX

Status: "Draft Permit to Install - Subject to Revision"

Permit / docket: P0140005

Record type: Initial PTI for "a data center and power generation facility"

VERIFIED PRIMARY

Limitation: Generator count, MW and square footage not stated on the notice page.

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"CMH 072 (Hilliard Amazon Data Center)"

Franklin County / Hilliard

Developer / operator: Amazon (as named in the notice title)

Status: "Draft Permit"

Permit / docket: CMH 072

Record type: Draft air permit, Division of Air Pollution Control

VERIFIED PRIMARY

Limitation: The portal landing page renders partly in a non-English locale; only the project label "CMH 072", county (Franklin), division and deadline were legible. The widely reported "158 emergency generators" figure was NOT visible in the primary record and is therefore excluded.

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Apollo Power Generation Facility — behind-the-meter gas plant built to serve an adjacent data center campus; power to be consumed by Liames, LLC

Wood County / Middleton Township

Developer / operator: Will-Power OH, LLC (generation); Liames, LLC (data center load)

Status: "approved the construction"; OPSB case table lists it under "Approved Behind-The-Meter Gas Generation and CHP Facilities"

Permit / docket: 25-973-EL-BGN (PUCO bulletin) / listed as 25-0973-EL-BLN in the OPSB case-status table

Record type: Certificate / accelerated letter of notification for behind-the-meter electric generation (Ohio Power Siting Board)

Capacity / size: 350 MW natural gas + approximately 120 MW battery energy storage

VERIFIED PRIMARY

Limitation: Two different case-number formats appear across the two official sources; both are reproduced. The data center itself (widely reported as Meta) is not named in these records — only "Liames, LLC".

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Socrates South (behind-the-meter gas generation co-located with battery storage, serving data center load)

Licking County

Developer / operator: n.a. in this record

Status: Listed under "Operational Behind-The-Meter Gas Generation and CHP Facilities"

Permit / docket: 25-0185-EL-BLN

Record type: Behind-the-meter gas generation / CHP case (OPSB)

Capacity / size: 200 MW

VERIFIED PRIMARY

Limitation: Table does not name the offtaking data center or developer.

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STY Power Generation Facility (co-located with battery storage)

Licking County

Developer / operator: n.a. in this record

Status: Listed under "Approved Behind-The-Meter Gas Generation and CHP Facilities"

Permit / docket: 26-0169-EL-BLN

Record type: Behind-the-meter gas generation case (OPSB)

Capacity / size: 250 MW

VERIFIED PRIMARY

Limitation: Offtaker/data center not named in the table.

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Neo Power Generation Facility (co-located with battery storage)

Licking County

Developer / operator: n.a. in this record

Status: "Pending"

Permit / docket: 26-0627-EL-BGN

Record type: Behind-the-meter gas generation certificate application (OPSB)

Capacity / size: 500 MW

VERIFIED PRIMARY

Limitation: Data center offtaker not identified in the table.

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PowerConneX III

Licking County

Developer / operator: n.a. in this record

Status: "Pre-Application"

Permit / docket: 26-0361-EL-BGN

Record type: Behind-the-meter gas generation (OPSB)

Capacity / size: 430 MW

VERIFIED PRIMARY

Limitation: No date; PowerConneX I (25-0090-EL-BLN, 120 MW, approved 7/22/25) and II (25-0302-EL-BGN, 216 MW, approved 11/20/25) appear in the same table marked "Under Construction".

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Ashville Energy Center (behind-the-meter)

Pickaway County / Ashville area

Developer / operator: n.a. in this record

Status: "Pending"

Permit / docket: 26-0196-EL-BGN

Record type: Behind-the-meter gas generation certificate application (OPSB)

Capacity / size: 800 MW

VERIFIED PRIMARY

Limitation: A separate grid-connected "Ashville Energy Center" (26-0746-EL-BGN, Pike County, 2,000 MW) is listed as Pre-Application in the same table. Table does not name a data center offtaker.

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"Project Mila" — data center campus in Trenton's industrial park

Butler County / Trenton

Developer / operator: Prologis

Status: "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"

Permit / docket: n.a. (site plan review; no case number stated)

Record type: Site plan review

Capacity / size: More than 140 acres; 880,000 square feet; four buildings; one electrical substation

CORROBORATED

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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Proposed AWS hyperscale data center campus, 1488 S US 68, Wilmington, OH 45177

Clinton County / Wilmington

Developer / operator: Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Status: CRA/Compensation Agreement "first introduced" at City Council; annexation "approved by Wilmington City Council"; site "is zoned Light Industrial"; state data center sales/use tax exemption "already awarded ... to the Project"; TIF at "intends to establish" stage

Permit / docket: O-25-73 (Community Reinvestment Area and Compensation Agreement)

Record type: Economic development / CRA tax-exemption and compensation agreement; plus annexation (ORC 709.023 Type 2 Expedited) and Light Industrial zoning

Capacity / size: 471-acre parcel; nine principal data center buildings, 162,787–219,689 sq ft each; 1,920,299 sq ft total; 6 million gallons/year water

CORROBORATED

Limitation: The Port Authority FAQ is a public-agency page but not the ordinance record itself; the underlying Wilmington ordinance texts were not fetched. MW not stated. Note: separately reported that a federal court ordered Wilmington to redo the zoning ordinances in July 2026 — not verified from a primary court/city record in this session.

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Civic and infrastructure context

What the evidence says around these projects

38 source-backed evidence rows are integrated on this page.

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE DEMOGRAPHIC

Aligned CMH01 (6770 Mink St)

Licking County / Pataskala

Block group at the CMH01 site is moderately low on national EJ indexes; no EJ-area designation exists under Ohio law.

Key data: BG 390897565002: 21.7% people of color, $65,614 median HH income; US EJ-index pctiles PM2.5 39 / diesel 39 / RSEI-air 43 / ozone 44 / traffic 30 / NO2 41; state PM2.5 pctile 48

CORROBORATED

Limitation: Coordinates approximated; EJScreen no longer maintained by EPA; Ohio has no statutory EJ designation program, so this is screening data only.

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ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE DEMOGRAPHIC

EdgeConneX New Albany North + Socrates gas plants

Licking County / New Albany

New Albany block group is affluent and low on all EJ indexes — the opposite of a classic EJ-burden profile.

Key data: BG 390490072132: 19.4% people of color, $134,407 median HH income; US pctiles 23/28/29/30/25/30; state PM2.5 pctile 28

CORROBORATED

Limitation: Same mirror/coordinate caveats.

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ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE DEMOGRAPHIC

Amazon "CMH 072"

Franklin County / Hilliard

Hilliard site block group sits near national median on diesel and NO2 EJ indexes.

Key data: BG 390490079622: 20.1% people of color, $81,071 median HH income; US pctiles 26/37/42/33/31/42

CORROBORATED

Limitation: Same caveats.

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ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE DEMOGRAPHIC

Ashville Energy Center (800 MW gas)

Pickaway County / Ashville

Ashville block group is overwhelmingly white and lower-income; state PM2.5 EJ percentile is above the state median.

Key data: BG 391290212012: 1.8% people of color, $60,268 median HH income; US pctiles 46/43/52/47/15/54; state PM2.5 pctile 51

CORROBORATED

Limitation: Same caveats.

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ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE DEMOGRAPHIC

Project Mila (Prologis)

Butler County / Trenton

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

CORROBORATED

Limitation: Same caveats.

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ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE DEMOGRAPHIC

AWS Wilmington (Cosler Farm)

Clinton County / Wilmington

Rural Wilmington block group has the highest state PM2.5 EJ percentile of the six Ohio sites screened.

Key data: BG 390279650001: 8.9% people of color, $90,625 median HH income; US pctiles 46/25/46/49/10/42; state PM2.5 pctile 60

CORROBORATED

Limitation: Same caveats.

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WATER WITHDRAWAL VOLUME

Columbus Water & Power service area — systemic

Columbus metro (incl. New Albany, Hilliard)

The Columbus Dispatch obtained utility billing records for 115 data-center addresses served by Columbus Water & Power, producing the only project-adjacent water accounting found for Ohio.

Key data: 1,263,063,480 gallons consumed by 115 data-center addresses May 2025–May 2026 = ~3% of the system's 41,254,279,899 total gallons; equivalent to ~21,107 households

CORROBORATED

Limitation: Aggregate across 115 addresses; no per-project breakout for CMH01, CMH 072, or EdgeConneX.

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WATER WITHDRAWAL VOLUME

Southerly Treatment Plant recycled-water proposal — systemic

Columbus / Franklin County

Columbus Water & Power calculated a recycled-water supply for nearby data centers; New Albany's ~40 data centers are too far from the plant to be served.

Key data: 40 million gallons/day recycled potential (~14.6 billion gal/yr), ~15% of system daily usage; $1.6B fourth water treatment plant under construction

CORROBORATED

Limitation: Proposal stage; utility states current ratepayers will not fund it.

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WATER WITHDRAWAL VOLUME

New Albany data center ecosystem

Licking County / New Albany

JobsOhio's site-marketing document states New Albany operates under a 40-year Columbus water service agreement and reports typical daily usage.

Key data: "Usage sits below 7 million gallons on most days"

DISCOVERY LEAD

Limitation: Economic-development marketing document, not a regulatory filing; figure covers the whole city, not individual campuses. No date on document.

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WATER WITHDRAWAL VOLUME

ODNR water withdrawal facility registration — project-level records

statewide

**NOT_FOUND.** Ohio requires registration of facilities withdrawing over 100,000 gallons/day under ORC 1521.16, but the searchable withdrawal database is login-gated and no per-data-center withdrawal record could be retrieved.

Key data: Registration threshold: 100,000 gallons/day

VERIFIED PRIMARY

Limitation: Searched ODNR WWFR pages and the apps.ohiodnr.gov/wwd application; the reporting portal requires credentials. Most named Ohio data centers buy municipal water rather than self-withdraw, so they may not appear even with access.

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UTILITY INTERCONNECTION QUEUE

Licking County interconnection pipeline — systemic

Licking County

An aggregator tracking PJM/AEP interconnection activity reports a Licking County pipeline; no queue position could be matched to a specific named anchor project.

Key data: 24 projects / 1,670 MW attributed to Licking County

DISCOVERY LEAD

Limitation: Third-party aggregator; not a PJM primary queue extract. Mix of generation and load not disaggregated.

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UTILITY INTERCONNECTION QUEUE

Socrates North/South, Apollo, STY, Neo, PowerConneX (behind-the-meter gas)

Licking County / New Albany

These behind-the-meter generation projects are sited through the Ohio Power Siting Board rather than the PJM interconnection queue, meaning the standard queue transparency does not apply. Socrates North (200 MW) was approved by OPSB; Socrates South was approved June 9, 2025.

Key data: OPSB case 25-0185-EL-BLN (Socrates South) approved 2025-06-09; Socrates North 200 MW approved; each site ~20 acres

CORROBORATED

Limitation: The BTM-bypasses-PJM characterization is drawn from [Cliff Center docket analysis](https://www.cliffcenter.com/dockets/i/2026-06-14-ohio-power-siting-board-approved-on-june-9) and [Aterio](https://www.aterio.io/blog/socrates-williams-2gw-behind-the-meter-power-meta-new-albany-ohio); MW figures for STY/Neo/PowerConneX were not independently confirmed from OPSB dockets this session.

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UTILITY INTERCONNECTION QUEUE

Socrates South — OPSB case cost record

Licking County / New Albany

OPSB's 2025 annual report itemizes case expenditures for the Socrates South siting case, confirming the case's existence and docket handling.

Key data: Case 24-0881-EL-BGN Socrates South expenditures: $27,537.58

VERIFIED PRIMARY

Limitation: Two different case numbers (24-0881-EL-BGN and 25-0185-EL-BLN) appear across sources for Socrates South; both may be valid (certificate vs. letter-of-notification tracks).

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COMMUNITY OPPOSITION OR LITIGATION

Aligned CMH01

Licking County / Pataskala

After a four-hour hearing dominated by noise and heat concerns, the Pataskala Planning Commission recommended rejection 5-2 and City Council then voted the proposal down unanimously.

Key data: Planning Commission 5-2 against; City Council unanimous rejection

CORROBORATED

Limitation: Council vote confirmed separately by [NBC4 Columbus](https://www.nbc4i.com/news/local-news/central-ohio-news/datacenters/pataskala-city-council-votes-against-data-center-proposal/). Exact council date not stated in fetched text.

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COMMUNITY OPPOSITION OR LITIGATION

Local ballot bans on hyperscale data centers

Licking + Delaware Counties / Pataskala, Sunbury

Residents in Pataskala and Sunbury circulated charter-amendment petitions to prohibit data centers above a megawatt threshold, an escalation from case-by-case zoning fights to structural bans.

Key data: Proposed charter bans on data centers larger than 25 MW

CORROBORATED

Limitation: Also reported by [NBC4](https://www.nbc4i.com/news/local-news/licking-county/residents-fight-back-against-data-centers-in-licking-delaware-counties/). Ballot certification outcome not confirmed.

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COMMUNITY OPPOSITION OR LITIGATION

Ashville Energy Center (EdgeConneX, 800 MW gas)

Pickaway County / Ashville

A village-level referendum fight over the 800 MW gas plant escalated to the Ohio Supreme Court; residents raised aquifer contamination and proximity to adjacent ballfields. Ashville earlier denied a 490-acre annexation 4-2 and adopted a 180-day moratorium.

Key data: OPSB case 26-0196-EL-BGN; 800 MW on ~195–200 acres; annexation of 490 acres denied 4-2; 180-day moratorium adopted 2025-12-20

CORROBORATED

Limitation: Corroborated by [Save Ohio Parks](https://saveohioparks.org/2026/08/21/against-all-odds-a-tiny-ohio-village-fights-an-international-data-center-consortium-and-its-800-mw-gas-plant/), [The Daily BS](https://thedailybs.com/2026/08/10/village-voters-get-say-in-multi-million-dollar-data-center-project/), and [Ryan Grissinger issue tracker](https://ryangrissinger.com/issues/data-centers/OH-DC-0030). Supreme Court case number not captured.

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COMMUNITY OPPOSITION OR LITIGATION

Project Mila (Prologis)

Butler County / Trenton

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

CORROBORATED

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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COMMUNITY OPPOSITION OR LITIGATION

AWS Wilmington

Clinton County / Wilmington

A federal lawsuit by two residents voided Wilmington's approval process; a judge ordered the city to redo three ordinances, and council scheduled new public hearings. This is the strongest litigation outcome found in Ohio.

Key data: Federal court ordered redo of Ordinances O-24-70, O-25-36, O-25-48; plaintiffs Jessica and Logan Sharp

CORROBORATED

Limitation: Corroborated by [News Journal hearing coverage](https://www.wnewsj.com/2026/07/09/federal-hearing-ends-in-aws-data-center-lawsuit/), [council reconsideration](https://www.wnewsj.com/2026/07/17/wilmington-city-council-to-reconsider-aws-ordinances-after-federal-court-order/), and [new hearings](https://www.wnewsj.com/2026/07/31/wilmington-council-sets-public-hearings-to-redo-aws-data-center-ordinances/). Federal case number not captured.

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COMMUNITY OPPOSITION OR LITIGATION

Will-Power OH LLC "Apollo" behind-the-meter gas plant

Wood County / Bowling Green (**not** Licking)

Ohio EPA held a public hearing on the Apollo permit attended by roughly 100 residents who sought local air monitoring and cumulative-impact consideration; Wood County commissioners pressed Ohio EPA for answers. **Important correction: the permitted Apollo facility is at 11902 Middleton Pike, Bowling Green (Wood County), not Licking County** — any Licking-County "Apollo" entry in the master database should be re-verified.

Key data: Hearing 2026-04-08; ~100 residents; permitted CO 234.62 tpy, NOx 192.09 tpy, PM10/PM2.5 139.72 tpy, VOC 140.57 tpy, SO2 197.71 tpy, HAPs 24.40 tpy; 6 RICE engines + 21 turbines + 2 diesel emergency engines + 22 line heaters

VERIFIED PRIMARY

Limitation: Ohio EPA's own notice lists noise, traffic, zoning/setbacks, property values, and safety as **outside its authority** — a structural gap in Ohio's review. Resident concerns corroborated by [BG Independent Media](https://bgindependentmedia.org/citizens-question-system-in-place-to-monitor-and-regulate-emissions-from-power-plant-at-data-center/) and [Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/fast-tracked-power-plants-fuel-ai-boom-with-little-public-scrutiny-2026-06-16/).

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COMMUNITY OPPOSITION OR LITIGATION

Aligned CMH01 air permit

Licking County / Pataskala

Ohio EPA opened a public comment docket on the CMH01 air permit for the Mink Street site.

Key data: Permit notice P0140511, 6770 Mink St, action date 2026-07-29

VERIFIED PRIMARY

Limitation: Comment volume/content not retrievable from the portal landing page.

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RATEPAYER OR GRID IMPACT

AEP Ohio Data Center Tariff (PUCO 24-0508-EL-ATA)

statewide

PUCO approved a first-of-its-kind data center tariff requiring large customers to commit to paying for a minimum share of subscribed load over long terms, explicitly to shield other ratepayers from stranded-cost risk.

Key data: Minimum 85% of subscribed load, contract terms up to 12 years; order 2025-07-09, effective 2025-07-23

VERIFIED PRIMARY

Limitation: Corroborated by [POWER Magazine](https://www.powermag.com/regulator-approves-aep-ohios-landmark-data-center-tariff/) and [OCC case page](https://www.occ.ohio.gov/content/data-center-costs-24-0508-el-ata).

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RATEPAYER OR GRID IMPACT

Ohio Supreme Court appeal of the data center tariff

statewide

The tariff is under appeal at the Ohio Supreme Court, with the Ohio Manufacturers' Association challenging it and the Ohio Consumers' Counsel filing a merit brief arguing data centers — not Ohioans — should pay the costs.

Key data: Ohio Supreme Court Case No. 2025-1458 (from PUCO 24-508); OCC merit brief filed 2026-03-24

VERIFIED PRIMARY

Limitation: Filing list confirmed via [OCC filings index](https://www.occ.ohio.gov/filings); OMA challenge reported by [Ohio Capital Journal](https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/13/ohio-manufacturers-association-challenges-new-utility-billing-for-data-centers/). Case not yet decided as of retrieval.

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RATEPAYER OR GRID IMPACT

Basic Transmission Cost Rider increase

AEP Ohio territory

An advocacy group's analysis of AEP Ohio's rider filings puts a specific per-kWh and per-month figure on transmission cost growth attributed to data center load.

Key data: +0.79¢/kWh effective 2026-04-01 ≈ +$7.90/month for a residential customer

DISCOVERY LEAD

Limitation: Advocacy source; the underlying AEP rider filing was not retrieved this session. Attribution of the full increase to data centers is the group's characterization.

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RATEPAYER OR GRID IMPACT

Transmission cost allocation — legislative testimony

AEP Ohio territory

Environmental Law & Policy Center testimony to the Ohio Joint Data Center Committee quantified a PUCO-approved transmission revenue increase.

Key data: PUCO approved a $126M AEP transmission increase, +9.5%

VERIFIED PRIMARY

Limitation: Advocacy testimony hosted on the legislature's system; the underlying PUCO order was not separately verified.

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RATEPAYER OR GRID IMPACT

Ohio Consumers' Counsel testimony, Joint Data Center Committee

statewide

OCC Director Maureen Willis testified that households should not subsidize speculative infrastructure for extraordinary data center load, and identified HB 706 as the pending vehicle for large-load service arrangements. Notably, the testimony contains **no specific residential dollar impact**.

Key data: "Hundreds—or potentially thousands—of megawatts" per project; utilities investing "billions" on projected load growth; HB 706 and HB 15 referenced

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Limitation: Qualitative; no case numbers, no gallons, no tonnage, no bill dollar figures stated in the document.

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AGRICULTURAL OR LAND USE CONVERSION

New Albany International Business Park expansion

Licking County / New Albany

Township farmland continues to be annexed and rezoned into the business park; Meta's existing New Albany campus alone covers three parcels exceeding a square mile.

Key data: 106 acres proposed for annexation/rezoning (2026-03); Meta site 766 acres across 3 parcels valued at $495,485,675 per Licking County Auditor

CORROBORATED

Limitation: Annexation figure from [Dispatch annexation coverage](https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/local/communities/new-albany/2026/03/17/new-albany-annexing-rezoning-106-acres-for-business-park-expansion/89143977007/). No cumulative acreage-of-farmland-lost figure exists for Licking County.

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AGRICULTURAL OR LAND USE CONVERSION

AWS Wilmington — Cosler Farm

Clinton County / Wilmington

The AWS site is a named working farm rezoned from rural residential to light industrial over the planning commission's objection.

Key data: 472-acre Cosler Farm at 1488 S US 68; 545+ acres rezoned rural residential → light industrial

CORROBORATED

Limitation: Acreage figures vary between 472 and 545+ across sources (site vs. total rezoned area). Context in [The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/02/amazon-data-centers-small-towns).

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AGRICULTURAL OR LAND USE CONVERSION

Project Mila

Butler County / Trenton

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

Key data: 141 acres purchased for ~$7.7M

CORROBORATED

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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DECOMMISSIONING PROVISION

Decommissioning bonds / financial assurance for data centers

statewide

**NOT_FOUND.** Ohio's statutory decommissioning-bond requirement (ORC 4906.22) applies only to wind farms and solar facilities, not data centers or behind-the-meter gas plants. No decommissioning bond, surety, or removal-cost escrow was found in any Ohio data center approval reviewed.

Key data: ORC 4906.22 covers wind/solar only; no data center equivalent

VERIFIED PRIMARY

Limitation: Searched OPSB cases, Ohio Revised Code, and municipal ordinances for Pataskala, New Albany, Trenton, and Wilmington. Some cities are writing new data center zoning chapters (e.g., [Canton's new rules with a "sensitive receptor" concept](https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/local/canton/2026/07/28/canton-ohio-passes-new-zoning-rules-for-data-centers/91006823007/)), but no end-of-life financial assurance was located.

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DECOMMISSIONING PROVISION

Moratoria as de facto end-of-life/risk control

multiple municipalities

Rather than requiring decommissioning assurance, several Ohio jurisdictions have simply prohibited or paused new data centers.

Key data: Commercial Point Ord. 2026-10 (prohibition); Avon Ord. 37-26 (moratorium); Yellow Springs Ord. 2026-08; 20+ Ohio communities wrote their own data center rules

VERIFIED PRIMARY

Limitation: Also [Avon Ord. 37-26](https://www.cityofavon.com/DocumentCenter/View/12216/Ordinance-No-37-26---Moratorium-on-Data-Centers-jag), [Yellow Springs 2026-08](https://ysnews.com/news/2026/05/ordinance-2026-08), survey by [Development Docket](https://www.developmentdocket.com/stories/2026-04-30-how-twenty-plus-ohio-communities-wrote-their-own-data-center-rules-and-what-your). None of these are anchor-project jurisdictions.

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FISCAL IMPACT LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Project Mila — tax abatement

Butler County / Trenton

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

CORROBORATED

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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FISCAL IMPACT LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Aligned CMH01 — foregone revenue

Licking County / Pataskala

Aligned publicly stated it sought no tax abatement and projected large annual property tax payments — revenue the city forfeited by denying the project.

Key data: Estimated >$34M/year in property tax at full buildout; no abatement sought

DISCOVERY LEAD

Limitation: Explicitly labeled sponsor content authored by the developer; figure is a developer projection, not an auditor estimate.

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FISCAL IMPACT LOCAL GOVERNMENT

AWS Wilmington — tax exemption request

Clinton County / Wilmington

The $4B project is seeking a very long property tax exemption.

Key data: 30-year property tax exemption sought on a $4B project

DISCOVERY LEAD

Limitation: Economic-development FAQ rather than a filed agreement; final terms not confirmed.

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NOISE OR TRAFFIC IMPACT

AWS Wilmington — noise

Clinton County / Wilmington

Wilmington amended its noise ordinance to exempt standby generators, passing it 6-1 with emergency language; opponents commissioned an independent acoustical analysis against city code sections.

Key data: Noise ordinance exemption for standby generators passed 6-1 with emergency clause; analysis references Wilmington code 1135.05 and 1151.04(m)(2)

CORROBORATED

Limitation: The [independent acoustical analysis (PDF)](https://wilmingtondatacenter.org/Acoustical_Analysis_AWS_Wilmington.pdf) is opponent-commissioned; its modeled dBA values were not extracted this session.

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NOISE OR TRAFFIC IMPACT

Aligned CMH01 — noise and heat

Licking County / Pataskala

Noise and waste-heat concerns were the central issues in the four-hour hearing that produced the planning commission's rejection recommendation.

Key data: Noise and heat identified as the dominant resident objections; no dBA standard cited

CORROBORATED

Limitation: No quantified decibel limit or traffic study figure was reported for Pataskala.

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NOISE OR TRAFFIC IMPACT

Ohio EPA jurisdictional exclusion of noise and traffic

statewide

Ohio EPA's own public-hearing notices state that noise levels, traffic, setbacks to homes and schools, safety, and property values are outside its authority — so for behind-the-meter gas plants serving data centers, these impacts have no state-level review venue.

Key data: Noise, traffic, zoning/setbacks, safety, and property values all listed as outside Ohio EPA authority

VERIFIED PRIMARY

Limitation: This is a structural finding drawn from one notice; the same boilerplate appears on Ohio EPA notices generally.

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CUMULATIVE REGIONAL IMPACT

Gas-plant clustering — systemic

statewide / Licking County

The Dispatch established the statewide scale of behind-the-meter gas buildout and its concentration in Licking County — the closest thing to a cumulative picture available for Ohio.

Key data: 230+ data centers in Ohio; at least 2 already powered by dedicated gas plants; 9 more approved or pending, **at least 5 of them in Licking County**; separate 1,300 MW Fairfield Energy Center proposed near Buckeye Lake

CORROBORATED

Limitation: Journalistic tally, not an agency inventory. Data center counts elsewhere reported as 224 statewide / 139 central Ohio / 40 in New Albany by the [same paper](https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/local/2026/07/06/columbus-area-data-centers-used-1-2-billion-gallons-of-water-in-a-year/90664392007/), sourced to Data Center Map.

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CUMULATIVE REGIONAL IMPACT

Formal cumulative impact assessment

Licking County

**NOT_FOUND.** No agency has produced a cumulative air, water, or noise assessment covering the Licking County cluster. Licking County's attainment status means no nonattainment-driven cumulative review is triggered, and Ohio EPA reviews each behind-the-meter gas permit individually. Residents at the Apollo hearing specifically asked for cumulative consideration and local monitoring.

Key data: Licking County: attainment/unclassifiable for all NAAQS

VERIFIED PRIMARY

Limitation: Searched Ohio EPA, OPSB, ODNR, and MORPC-type regional sources. Absence of a cumulative assessment is itself the finding; resident requests documented by [BG Independent Media](https://bgindependentmedia.org/citizens-question-system-in-place-to-monitor-and-regulate-emissions-from-power-plant-at-data-center/) (Wood County) — no Licking equivalent found.

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Project profile evidence

Operators, locations, power, water, capacity and other project facts

46 source-backed evidence rows are integrated on this page.

EXACT LOCATION

Aligned Data Centers CMH01

Licking County / Pataskala

Ohio EPA's public comment page for air permit P0140511 identifies the facility street address in Pataskala. Corroborating local reporting places the site at the southeast corner of Broad Street SW and Mink Street SW inside the Pataskala Corporate Park.

Key data: 6770 Mink Street, Pataskala, OH 43062

VERIFIED PRIMARY

Limitation: No parcel ID/APN obtained; Licking County Auditor parcel search could not be queried directly.

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OWNERSHIP CHAIN

Aligned Data Centers CMH01

Licking County / Pataskala

Aligned bought ~89.4 acres in Pataskala from Shaffer Family Investments LLC for nearly $13.9M per Licking County Auditor records reported by Columbus Business First. Aligned's own equity was acquired 100% by AIP, MGX and BlackRock's Global Infrastructure Partners, closing July 21, 2026, from Macquarie Asset Management funds.

Key data: ~89.4 ac / $13.9M from Shaffer Family Investments LLC; Aligned now 100% owned by AIP + MGX + BlackRock GIP consortium

CORROBORATED

Limitation: Purchase detail is from news citing the Auditor, not the Auditor record itself: https://www.nbc4i.com/news/columbus-business-first/aligned-data-centers-buys-pataskala-property-for-nearly-14-million/

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OPERATOR

Aligned Data Centers CMH01

Licking County / Pataskala

Aligned Data Centers is the developer and operator; the press release confirms Andrew Schaap and existing management continue to lead the company post-acquisition, and lists Ohio among its Tier I campus regions.

Key data: Aligned Data Centers (CEO Andrew Schaap); 51 campuses, >6.4 GW planned/operational

VERIFIED PRIMARY

Limitation: Press release does not name CMH01 specifically.

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POWER SUPPLIER

Aligned Data Centers CMH01

Licking County / Pataskala

Local reporting on the Pataskala City Council hearing describes AEP transmission lines adjacent to the site and on-site Bloom Energy fuel cells as part of the power plan; the air permit covers 129 emergency generators.

Key data: AEP lines adjacent; Bloom Energy fuel cells; 129 emergency generators in permit P0140511

CORROBORATED

Limitation: No AEP Ohio interconnection agreement number or large-load tariff docket located for CMH01.

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WATER SUPPLIER

Aligned Data Centers CMH01

Licking County / Pataskala

Reporting on the project states the cooling system is closed-loop using trucked-in deionized water rather than city water service.

Key data: Closed-loop, trucked deionized water; no municipal water connection for cooling

CORROBORATED

Limitation: No water service agreement document found; potable/domestic water provider not separately confirmed.

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JURISDICTION STACK

Aligned Data Centers CMH01

Licking County / Pataskala

City of Pataskala (zoning/permits) sits inside Licking County; the air permit is a State of Ohio action by Ohio EPA's Division of Air Pollution Control.

Key data: City of Pataskala → Licking County → Ohio EPA DAPC (permit P0140511)

VERIFIED PRIMARY

Limitation: —

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PLANNING ZONING CONTACT

Aligned Data Centers CMH01

Licking County / Pataskala

The City of Pataskala permits page publishes a named planning and zoning contact.

Key data: Lisa Paxton, Planning & Zoning, 740-927-4910, lpaxton@ci.pataskala.oh.us

VERIFIED PRIMARY

Limitation: Case-specific planner for CMH01 not published.

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ECON DEV CONTACT

Licking County projects (all)

Licking County

GROW Licking County CIC is the designated economic development agency for all of Licking County and its municipalities, with published address, phone and email.

Key data: GROW Licking County CIC, 20 S. 2nd Street 4th Floor, Newark OH 43058; 740.281.3463; info@growlickingcounty.org

VERIFIED PRIMARY

Limitation: Contact page names no individual; Executive Director named on the About page rather than the contact page.

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GENERAL CONTACT

Ohio EPA air permits (Licking/Franklin data centers)

Licking County

Ohio EPA routes air-permit questions for these facilities through named district staff; the Will-Power hearing notice publishes the NWDO contact and a Central Office contact.

Key data: Clint Reed, 419.373.3137, Clinton.Reed@epa.ohio.gov; Max Moore 614.644.2160

VERIFIED PRIMARY

Limitation: These contacts are tied to the Will-Power/Apollo permit; other permits may route to Central District Office staff not identified.

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SURROUNDING INFRASTRUCTURE

Aligned Data Centers CMH01

Licking County / Pataskala

The site is in the Pataskala Corporate Park at Broad St SW and Mink St SW with AEP transmission lines adjacent; SR-16/Broad Street provides highway access.

Key data: Pataskala Corporate Park; AEP lines adjacent; Broad St SW (SR-16 corridor) frontage

CORROBORATED

Limitation: No substation name, sewer trunk line, rail spur or fiber route identified.

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EXACT LOCATION

EdgeConneX New Albany North

Licking County / New Albany

Ohio EPA's comment page for air permit P0140005 lists the facility address for the New Albany North data center.

Key data: 3356 Clover Valley Road NW, New Albany, OH 43031

VERIFIED PRIMARY

Limitation: No APN; lat/long not published.

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OWNERSHIP CHAIN

EdgeConneX New Albany North

Licking County / New Albany

EdgeConneX is described in trade reporting as EQT-owned; it acquired the 9850 Innovation Campus Way property (~270 acres) from VanTrust Real Estate for $137.2M for the New Albany build.

Key data: EdgeConneX (EQT-owned); ~270 ac bought from VanTrust Real Estate for $137.2M

CORROBORATED

Limitation: Deed record not obtained; relationship between the Clover Valley Rd permit address and the Innovation Campus Way parcel not fully reconciled.

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OPERATOR / POWER SUPPLIER

EdgeConneX New Albany North

Licking County / New Albany

EdgeConneX operates the campus and self-supplies power behind the meter through affiliate PowerConneX gas generation (see PowerConneX rows). The campus energy center is explicitly described as serving data centers on the same site.

Key data: "primary source of electricity to data centers on the same site"; "behind-the-meter power solution"

VERIFIED PRIMARY

Limitation: AEP Ohio retail/backup service arrangement not documented.

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JURISDICTION STACK / PLANNING ZONING CONTACT

EdgeConneX New Albany North

Licking County / New Albany

Zoning and development review sit with the City of New Albany's Community Development & Administrative Services department; state siting of the paired generation goes to the Ohio Power Siting Board and air permitting to Ohio EPA.

Key data: New Albany Community Development & Administrative Services, 7815 Walton Parkway, (614) 939-2254

VERIFIED PRIMARY

Limitation: No individual case planner named for the data center itself.

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EXACT LOCATION

Apollo Power Generation Facility (350 MW) — Will-Power OH LLC

Wood County / Bowling Green (NOT Licking)

**Attribution conflict resolved.** Ohio EPA's PTI public-hearing notice for Will-Power OH LLC's Apollo facility places it in Middleton Township, Wood County — not Licking County. The load served is an adjacent Meta data center.

Key data: 11902 Middleton Pike, Bowling Green, OH 43402 (Middleton Township, Wood County)

VERIFIED PRIMARY

Limitation: The prior pass's Licking County attribution for Apollo should be corrected in the master database.

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OWNERSHIP CHAIN / OPERATOR

Apollo Power Generation Facility

Wood County

The applicant of record is Will-Power OH LLC, the Williams Companies power affiliate that also holds Socrates North/South, STY and Neo in Ohio.

Key data: Will-Power OH LLC (Williams Companies, Inc. affiliate)

VERIFIED PRIMARY

Limitation: Williams parentage confirmed via the Socrates GEM record and Williams fact sheet rather than the Apollo notice itself.

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POWER SUPPLIER (generation siting)

Apollo Power Generation Facility

Wood County

The Ohio Power Siting Board approved the 350 MW Apollo facility on February 3, 2026; it is a behind-the-meter generator, with the air permit holder being Will-Power OH LLC.

Key data: OPSB approval Feb 3, 2026; 350 MW

VERIFIED PRIMARY

Limitation: Generation interconnection queue number not located.

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EXACT LOCATION / OWNERSHIP CHAIN

Socrates South (200 MW)

Licking County / New Albany

GEM wiki records coordinates for Socrates South and lists Will-Power OH LLC as owner with Williams Companies as parent; Williams publishes a combined Socrates North & South fact sheet.

Key data: 40.0545385, -82.7467511; owner Will-Power OH LLC / parent The Williams Companies, Inc.

DISCOVERY LEAD

Limitation: Coordinates are GEM-derived, not from an assessor or permit; treat as approximate. Williams fact sheet: https://www.williams.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2026/02/Socrates-North-and-South-Fact-Sheet-1.pdf

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GENERAL CONTACT

Socrates North & South

Licking County / New Albany

The Williams fact sheet for the Socrates projects publishes only a corporate toll-free line as the public contact.

Key data: (800) WILLIAMS

VERIFIED PRIMARY

Limitation: No project-specific community relations person published.

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OWNERSHIP CHAIN / OPERATOR / POWER SUPPLIER

STY Power Generation Facility (250 MW)

Licking County / New Albany

The American Public Power Association reports OPSB approved the "Socrates the Younger" (STY) facility: Will-Power OH LLC will construct and operate it on ~109 acres, with 250 MW plus a 116 MW battery system, and the output consumed by **Sidecat, LLC, an affiliate of Meta Platforms**.

Key data: 250 MW + 116 MW BESS on 109 ac; offtaker Sidecat, LLC (Meta Platforms affiliate)

CORROBORATED

Limitation: Street address / APN for the STY site not published.

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EXACT LOCATION / OWNERSHIP CHAIN

Neo Power Generation Facility (500 MW)

Licking County / Jersey Township

Williams' OPSB pre-application letter places Neo in Jersey Township, Licking County under Case No. 26-0627-EL-BGN, with Will-Power OH LLC as applicant, 500 MW of generation plus 260 MW of battery storage.

Key data: Case No. 26-0627-EL-BGN; Jersey Township, Licking County; 500 MW + 260 MW BESS

VERIFIED PRIMARY

Limitation: No street address or parcel list in the pre-application letter.

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GENERAL CONTACT

Neo Power Generation Facility

Licking County / Jersey Township

The Neo pre-application letter publishes both a company project contact and outside counsel.

Key data: Chris Hortert (412) 452-1893; counsel Kara H. Herrnstein, kherrnstein@bricker.com, 614.227.4908

VERIFIED PRIMARY

Limitation: —

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EXACT LOCATION

PowerConneX I & II (120 / 216 MW)

Licking County / New Albany

EdgeConneX's project page places the New Albany Energy Center on ~48.6 acres northwest of the Route 161 and Mink Street intersection; GEM records coordinates.

Key data: ~48.6 ac NW of Rt 161 & Mink St; 40.0877294, -82.722445

VERIFIED PRIMARY

Limitation: Coordinates are GEM-derived (DISCOVERY_LEAD): https://www.gem.wiki/PowerConneX_I_and_II_New_Albany_Energy_Center

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OWNERSHIP CHAIN / POWER SUPPLIER

PowerConneX I & II

Licking County / New Albany

Owners of record are PowerConneX Inc. and Powerconnex New Albany 2, LLC, EdgeConneX affiliates under parent EQT; OPSB minutes confirm Powerconnex New Albany 2, LLC's certificate case for a gas-fired generation facility serving a data center in New Albany.

Key data: Case 25-302-EL-BGN (Powerconnex New Albany 2, LLC); parent EQT

VERIFIED PRIMARY

Limitation: EQT parentage is from GEM/trade reporting, not the OPSB minutes.

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GENERAL CONTACT

PowerConneX I & II

Licking County / New Albany

EdgeConneX publishes a project phone line and email for the New Albany Energy Center.

Key data: (703) 935-1980; pcxenergynewalbany@edgeconnex.com

VERIFIED PRIMARY

Limitation: —

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EXACT LOCATION / OPERATOR / GENERAL CONTACT

PowerConneX III (430 MW)

Licking County

EdgeConneX's New Albany North Campus Energy Center page describes PowerConneX New Albany 3 Energy Center as a ~30-acre, up to ~430 MW gas facility in Licking County that will be the primary electricity source for data centers on the same site, and publishes a project contact.

Key data: ~30 ac, up to ~430 MW; pcxenergynewalbanyIII@edgeconnex.com, +1 (703) 961-1046 Ext 10147

VERIFIED PRIMARY

Limitation: Still pre-application at OPSB per trade reporting; no BGN case number published on the page.

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EXACT LOCATION / OWNERSHIP CHAIN

Ashville Energy Center (800 MW)

Pickaway County / Ashville

PowerConneX's public notice describes a ~110-acre site with up to 800 MW of gas generation under OPSB Case 26-196-EL-BGN, with PowerConneX Inc. as the applicant.

Key data: ~110 ac, up to 800 MW, OPSB Case 26-196-EL-BGN, PowerConneX Inc.

VERIFIED PRIMARY

Limitation: No street address or APN published.

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WATER SUPPLIER

Ashville Energy Center

Pickaway County / Ashville

Investigative reporting places the site above the Teays Valley Aquifer near the Village of Ashville's municipal wells; the Village's own developer fact sheet confirms Ashville provides water and wastewater service with published capacity fees.

Key data: Village of Ashville water & wastewater; capacity fees $8,000 water / $10,000 wastewater; site above Teays Valley Aquifer

CORROBORATED

Limitation: Aquifer/well proximity is from https://www.thebrockovichreport.com/p/they-want-to-put-a-data-center-above ; no water service agreement for the energy center located.

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JURISDICTION STACK

Ashville Energy Center

Pickaway County / Ashville

The Village of Ashville provides building, planning & zoning, law enforcement, water and wastewater; the county layer is Pickaway County; state layer is OPSB plus Ohio EPA. Multiple overlapping economic-development districts apply (North Gate Alliance CEDA, JEDDs, CRA, TIF).

Key data: Village of Ashville, 200 Station Street East, Ashville OH 43103; Teays Valley School District; North Gate Alliance CEDA; two JEDDs

VERIFIED PRIMARY

Limitation: Village general line (740) 983-6367 from village listings, not this PDF.

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ECON DEV CONTACT

Ashville Energy Center

Pickaway County

Pickaway Progress Partnership (P3) is the economic development agent for Pickaway County and its municipalities including Ashville, with a published phone.

Key data: Pickaway Progress Partnership (P3), (740) 420-6498, pickawayprogress.com

VERIFIED PRIMARY

Limitation: Fact sheet names no individual in the fetched portion.

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GENERAL CONTACT

Ashville Energy Center

Pickaway County / Ashville

PowerConneX publishes a project line and email; OPSB publishes a public docketing line for the case.

Key data: (703) 935-2452 Ext 10141, pcxenergyashville@edgeconnex.com; OPSB 1-866-270-6772, contactOPSB@puco.ohio.gov

VERIFIED PRIMARY

Limitation: —

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EXACT LOCATION

Amazon "CMH 072"

Franklin County / Hilliard

The Ohio EPA eDoc for the project describes the ~142-acre campus in the Scioto Darby Creek Road / Cosgray Road area of Hilliard, including an on-site AEP substation and transformer yard.

Key data: ~142-ac campus, Scioto Darby Creek Rd / Cosgray Rd, Hilliard

VERIFIED PRIMARY

Limitation: No single street address or APN stated.

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OWNERSHIP CHAIN / OPERATOR / GENERAL CONTACT

Amazon "CMH 072"

Franklin County / Hilliard

The Ohio EPA document identifies the permittee contact as Steven Meyers of Amazon Data Services with Ramboll as consultant, and lists Amazon project emails/phone.

Key data: Amazon Data Services (Steven Meyers); robbtrue@amazon.com; abounj@amazon.com, 514-836-7133; consultant Ramboll

VERIFIED PRIMARY

Limitation: Land-holding LLC not identified; Franklin County Auditor parcel lookup not accessible.

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POWER SUPPLIER

Amazon "CMH 072"

Franklin County / Hilliard

Trade reporting states the campus includes ~73 MW of Bloom Energy fuel cells developed by AEP Ohio, part of a ~1 GW Bloom–AEP arrangement announced November 2024; the City of Hilliard is appealing the air permit at ERAC.

Key data: ~73 MW Bloom fuel cells developed by AEP Ohio; Hilliard appeal at ERAC

CORROBORATED

Limitation: No AEP Ohio interconnection agreement number found.

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JURISDICTION STACK / SURROUNDING INFRASTRUCTURE

Amazon "CMH 072"

Franklin County / Hilliard

City of Hilliard zoning/appeal authority, Franklin County, Ohio EPA (air + isolated wetland), and ERAC on appeal. On-site infrastructure includes an AEP substation and transformer yard; Blatz Lake on the site was filled in 2023 under a Level Three Isolated Wetland Permit.

Key data: AEP substation + transformer yard on site; Blatz Lake filled 2023 under Level Three Isolated Wetland Permit

VERIFIED PRIMARY

Limitation: Corroborating civic detail at https://stopohiodatacenters.org/franklin-county ; water/sewer trunk lines and fiber routes not identified.

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PLANNING ZONING CONTACT / ECON DEV CONTACT

Amazon "CMH 072"

Franklin County / Hilliard

Hilliard publishes its Planning Division and economic development/permitting contacts.

Key data: John Talentino, AICP (Planning) and Rhonda Parson, (614) 334-2557

VERIFIED PRIMARY

Limitation: Not confirmed as the assigned case manager for CMH 072. Acting city manager Dan Ralley is the named official quoted on the appeal in DCD reporting.

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EXACT LOCATION / OWNERSHIP CHAIN

Project Mila (Prologis)

Butler County / Trenton

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

CORROBORATED

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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POWER SUPPLIER

Project Mila

Butler County / Trenton

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

CORROBORATED

Limitation: Specific interconnection agreement number not identified.

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WATER SUPPLIER

Project Mila

Butler County / Trenton

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

CORROBORATED

Limitation: No water service agreement document retrieved.

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PLANNING ZONING CONTACT / GENERAL CONTACT

Project Mila

Butler County / Trenton

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.

VERIFIED PRIMARY

Limitation: No named case planner published.

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EXACT LOCATION

AWS hyperscale campus (471 acres)

Clinton County / Wilmington

The Clinton County economic development FAQ identifies the AWS site address and the 471-acre "Cosler Farm" parcel.

Key data: 1488 S US 68, Wilmington, OH 45177; 471-acre "Cosler Farm" parcel

VERIFIED PRIMARY

Limitation: APN not published in the FAQ.

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POWER SUPPLIER / WATER SUPPLIER

AWS hyperscale campus

Clinton County / Wilmington

The FAQ states electric service is from AES Ohio within PJM, and water is supplied by the City of Wilmington drawing from Caesar Creek Reservoir under a long-term ODNR contract, with roughly 6 million gallons per year projected.

Key data: Electric: AES Ohio (PJM); Water: City of Wilmington / Caesar Creek Reservoir under long-term ODNR contract; ~6M gal/yr

VERIFIED PRIMARY

Limitation: No interconnection agreement number; corroborating testimony at https://www.wnewsj.com/2026/07/13/testimony-outlines-evolution-of-proposed-aws-data-center/

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ECON DEV CONTACT / JURISDICTION STACK

AWS hyperscale campus

Clinton County / Wilmington

The Clinton County Port Authority leads economic development with Economic Development Director Josh Roth, working with JobsOhio and the Dayton Development Coalition; county Building & Zoning handles local permitting.

Key data: Josh Roth, Economic Development Director, Clinton County Port Authority; Clinton County Building & Zoning 937-382-3335, buildingandzoning@clintoncountyohio.us

VERIFIED PRIMARY

Limitation: Direct phone/email for Josh Roth not published in the FAQ.

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NOT FOUND

Ohio projects — OWNERSHIP_CHAIN via deed/SOS records

Multiple

Attempts to pull deed instruments and Ohio Secretary of State business filings for the shell entities (Will-Power OH LLC, Powerconnex New Albany 2 LLC, Aligned CMH01 land holder, Amazon's land-holding entity) did not yield accessible primary records; ownership had to be established from OPSB/Ohio EPA filings and news citing county auditor records.

Key data: No county recorder/auditor or SOS entity record directly retrieved for any Ohio project

DISCOVERY LEAD

Limitation: Licking, Franklin, Butler, Wood and Clinton county auditor/recorder parcel search interfaces were not queryable in this session; Ohio EPA also states air PTI applications are not posted online.

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NOT FOUND

Ohio behind-the-meter gas plants — WATER_SUPPLIER

Multiple

Searched OPSB filings, Williams fact sheets and EdgeConneX/PowerConneX notices for water providers or water service agreements for Socrates South, STY, Neo, PowerConneX I/II/III and Apollo. None of these documents name a water utility or source.

Key data: No water supplier named in any Will-Power or PowerConneX Ohio filing reviewed

DISCOVERY LEAD

Limitation: Full OPSB application exhibits (which may contain water plans) were not retrievable through the docket search in this session.

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NOT FOUND

Ohio projects — PLANNING_ZONING_CONTACT named case managers

Multiple

For CMH01, EdgeConneX New Albany North, Amazon CMH 072, Project Mila and the AWS Wilmington campus, no jurisdiction published a named case manager tied to the specific application; only department-level contacts are available.

Key data: Department-level contacts only for Pataskala, New Albany, Hilliard, Trenton, Clinton County

DISCOVERY LEAD

Limitation: Case-manager names typically appear only in staff reports, which were not published online for these cases.

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Ohio project / topic roster

Research currently compiled for Ohio

69 project/topic labels are retained here, including unresolved aliases that still require canonical reconciliation.

Project or topicEvidence state
"CMH 072 (Hilliard Amazon Data Center)"Source-backed / reconciliation-aware
"Project Mila" — data center campus in Trenton's industrial parkSource-backed / reconciliation-aware
AEP Ohio Data Center Tariff (PUCO 24-0508-EL-ATA)Source-backed / reconciliation-aware
AWS WilmingtonSource-backed / reconciliation-aware
AWS Wilmington (Cosler Farm)Source-backed / reconciliation-aware
AWS Wilmington — Cosler FarmSource-backed / reconciliation-aware
AWS Wilmington — noiseSource-backed / reconciliation-aware
AWS Wilmington — tax exemption requestSource-backed / reconciliation-aware
AWS hyperscale campusSource-backed / reconciliation-aware
AWS hyperscale campus (471 acres)Source-backed / reconciliation-aware
Aligned CMH01Source-backed / reconciliation-aware
Aligned CMH01 (6770 Mink St)Source-backed / reconciliation-aware
Aligned CMH01 air permitSource-backed / reconciliation-aware
Aligned CMH01 — foregone revenueSource-backed / reconciliation-aware
Aligned CMH01 — noise and heatSource-backed / reconciliation-aware
Aligned Data Centers CMH01Source-backed / reconciliation-aware
Aligned Data Centers – CMH01, 6770 Mink Street, Pataskala, OH 43062Source-backed / reconciliation-aware
Amazon "CMH 072"Source-backed / reconciliation-aware
Apollo Power Generation FacilitySource-backed / reconciliation-aware
Apollo Power Generation Facility (350 MW) — Will-Power OH LLCSource-backed / reconciliation-aware
Apollo Power Generation Facility — behind-the-meter gas plant built to serve an adjacent data center campus; power to be consumed by Liames, LLCSource-backed / reconciliation-aware
Ashville Energy CenterSource-backed / reconciliation-aware
Ashville Energy Center (800 MW gas)Source-backed / reconciliation-aware
Ashville Energy Center (800 MW)Source-backed / reconciliation-aware
Ashville Energy Center (EdgeConneX, 800 MW gas)Source-backed / reconciliation-aware
Ashville Energy Center (behind-the-meter)Source-backed / reconciliation-aware
Basic Transmission Cost Rider increaseSource-backed / reconciliation-aware
Columbus Water & Power service area — systemicSource-backed / reconciliation-aware
Decommissioning bonds / financial assurance for data centersSource-backed / reconciliation-aware
EdgeConneX New Albany NorthSource-backed / reconciliation-aware
EdgeConneX New Albany North + Socrates gas plantsSource-backed / reconciliation-aware
EdgeConneX New Albany North, 3356 Clover Valley Road NW, New Albany, OH 43031Source-backed / reconciliation-aware
Formal cumulative impact assessmentSource-backed / reconciliation-aware
Gas-plant clustering — systemicSource-backed / reconciliation-aware
Licking County interconnection pipeline — systemicSource-backed / reconciliation-aware
Licking County projects (all)Source-backed / reconciliation-aware
Local ballot bans on hyperscale data centersSource-backed / reconciliation-aware
Moratoria as de facto end-of-life/risk controlSource-backed / reconciliation-aware
Neo Power Generation FacilitySource-backed / reconciliation-aware
Neo Power Generation Facility (500 MW)Source-backed / reconciliation-aware
Neo Power Generation Facility (co-located with battery storage)Source-backed / reconciliation-aware
New Albany International Business Park expansionSource-backed / reconciliation-aware
New Albany data center ecosystemSource-backed / reconciliation-aware
ODNR water withdrawal facility registration — project-level recordsSource-backed / reconciliation-aware
Ohio Consumers' Counsel testimony, Joint Data Center CommitteeSource-backed / reconciliation-aware
Ohio EPA air permits (Licking/Franklin data centers)Source-backed / reconciliation-aware
Ohio EPA jurisdictional exclusion of noise and trafficSource-backed / reconciliation-aware
Ohio Supreme Court appeal of the data center tariffSource-backed / reconciliation-aware
Ohio behind-the-meter gas plants — WATER_SUPPLIERSource-backed / reconciliation-aware
Ohio projects — OWNERSHIP_CHAIN via deed/SOS recordsSource-backed / reconciliation-aware
Ohio projects — PLANNING_ZONING_CONTACT named case managersSource-backed / reconciliation-aware
PowerConneX I & IISource-backed / reconciliation-aware
PowerConneX I & II (120 / 216 MW)Source-backed / reconciliation-aware
PowerConneX IIISource-backed / reconciliation-aware
PowerConneX III (430 MW)Source-backed / reconciliation-aware
Project MilaSource-backed / reconciliation-aware
Project Mila (Prologis)Source-backed / reconciliation-aware
Project Mila — tax abatementSource-backed / reconciliation-aware
Proposed AWS hyperscale data center campus, 1488 S US 68, Wilmington, OH 45177Source-backed / reconciliation-aware
STY Power Generation Facility (250 MW)Source-backed / reconciliation-aware
STY Power Generation Facility (co-located with battery storage)Source-backed / reconciliation-aware
Socrates North & SouthSource-backed / reconciliation-aware
Socrates North/South, Apollo, STY, Neo, PowerConneX (behind-the-meter gas)Source-backed / reconciliation-aware
Socrates South (200 MW)Source-backed / reconciliation-aware
Socrates South (behind-the-meter gas generation co-located with battery storage, serving data center load)Source-backed / reconciliation-aware
Socrates South — OPSB case cost recordSource-backed / reconciliation-aware
Southerly Treatment Plant recycled-water proposal — systemicSource-backed / reconciliation-aware
Transmission cost allocation — legislative testimonySource-backed / reconciliation-aware
Will-Power OH LLC "Apollo" behind-the-meter gas plantSource-backed / reconciliation-aware
Research and local discovery

Find data center projects and the public records around them in Ohio.

This state page combines mapped locations with permits, planning and zoning activity, infrastructure context, operators and civic records. The deeper corpus is supplemented by 8 accepted rows from the validated national refresh. Counts describe evidence records, not unique facilities.

Where a source does not establish a location, utility, water supplier or other fact, that gap remains explicit rather than being converted into an unsupported map point or claim.

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