The Village of Lordstown, Ohio, has taken decisive action against AI data center development. In November 2025, the Lordstown Village Council voted to approve an ordinance officially banning all future proposals for data centers within the village limits.
This move was specifically triggered by a significant proposal submitted by Bristolville 25 Developer LLC. The developer had plans for a major data center project on a 133-acre land parcel situated near Tod Avenue. The massive facility was estimated to cover 1,650,000 sq ft (150,000 sqm) and require an enormous investment of $3.6 billion.
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| 1.17 miles | Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset |
The Lordstown campus, located at the former General Motors plant purchased by SoftBank for $375 million, was initially designed to host a key data center for OpenAI's nationwide Stargate infrastructure initiative.
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| 6.35 miles | BitDeer: Niles, Ohio |
Bitdeer’s new mining campus is being developed on the 41.8-acre footprint of the old Niles Generating Station in Niles, Ohio.
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| 10.67 miles | Ark: Youngstown |
July 22, 2026 Ohio
Cervenka Development Partners is exploring a potential data center project in Amherst, Ohio. The company has applied for a zoning variance to allow data center use on industrial land parcels along Nordson Drive. The request will be reviewed by the City of Amherst Zoning Board of Appeals on July...
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May 18, 2026 Ohio
Cleveland, Ohio, has turned down Lakeland Equity Group’s $1.6 billion plan to develop a data center campus. Mayor Justin M. Bibb announced on May 14 that the city had denied the permit for the proposed facility, which was planned for a 35-acre site at 3560 E 55th St. Lakeland described the...
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May 08, 2026 Ohio
Private credit firm Lakeland Equity Group has filed plans for a $1.6 billion data center project in Cleveland, Ohio. The proposal outlines a 150MW campus on a 35-acre site at 3560 E 55th St, currently owned by trucking company Morabito Enterprises. The development could include three two-story...
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April 30, 2026 Ohio
Real estate firm Five 9s Digital has sold a data center in Columbus, Ohio, with colocation provider Expedient understood to be the buyer. “Five 9s Digital announced the successful sale of a 6MW single-tenant data center in Columbus, Ohio, to its long-term tenant,” the company said this week....
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March 19, 2026 Ohio
Ohio state senator Bernie Moreno has urged the backers of a $136m data center to forgo tax subsidies tied to its planned expansion. In a public letter on Monday, he argued that the economic benefits of expanding the Ark Data Centers campus do not justify the subsidies.The expansion would create...
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