data center

At its Thursday morning meeting, the Ohio Ballot Board voted unanimously to leave the recently proposed “Prohibition of Construction of a Data Center” amendment intact.

Officials flocked to southern Ohio last Friday to detail plans for a data center so large it needs a $33.3 billion natural gas plant to power it.

A proposed amendment to stop future construction of huge data centers in Ohio got the green light to go forward from Attorney General Dave Yost.

The facilities, including the behemoth 10 gigawatt data center, will be constructed on revitalized U.S. Department of Energy land in Piketon.

A group of rural Ohioans concerned about huge data centers popping up around the state want voters to decide whether they should be banned.

More than half of Ohio’s data centers are located in central Ohio and the amount is rapidly growing.

Republican leaders in the Ohio House and Senate leaders say they’re planning to override another of Gov. Mike DeWine’s 67 vetoes in the budget last year.

The decision puts a 12-month pause on any new data centers from being considered for construction in Urbana.

In July, American Electric Power got the green light from the state regulatory body the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to move forward with its data center tariff.

Amid the data center boom, local governments across Ohio are temporarily banning the facilities.