Crane: Pierce Township, OH

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Crane: Pierce Township, OH

Utility Provider: Duke Energy Ohio
Lot Size: 294 acres

Site History

  • September 2026: Crane Data Centers presented the campus to the Pierce Township Zoning Commission. The trustees said they are not entertaining data centers.
  • 2026: Pierce Township adopted a data center moratorium that runs to May 31, 2027.

Project Profile

  • Developer: Crane Data Centers
  • Site: about 294 acres on three privately owned parcels north of Beckjord Road and east of US 52
  • Plan: three buildings of 200,000-300,000 sq ft each, plus a new substation with a 345 kV connection to Duke Energy
  • Status: proposal; no zoning application filed

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13.30 miles Lumen Cincinnati 1 (400 Pike)
13.81 miles Encore Technologies NOR1
Encore Technologies' NOR1 data center sits at the company's headquarters at 4620 Wesley Avenue in Norwood, Ohio. The colocation facility offers 2N power, N+1 cooling and SOC 2 Type II compliance.
13.84 miles DartPoints: Cincinnati, OH
Conveniently located in the heart of Cincinnati, CVG01 provides immediate access to dense fiber routes and core network infrastructure.
13.97 miles altafiber: 209 W 7th
altafiber's (formerly Cincinnati Bell) main telephone exchange occupies the 1931 Cincinnati and Suburban Telephone Company Building at 209 West 7th Street in downtown Cincinnati. It stands next to CyrusOne's CIN2 carrier hotel.
14.00 miles CyrusOne Cincinnati 7th Street
CyrusOne's CIN2 is Cincinnati's primary carrier hotel and switching facility, at 229 West 7th Street downtown. The 12-story building stands next to altafiber's (formerly Cincinnati Bell) main telephone exchange.
14.00 miles DataCanopy: Cincinnati, OH
Located in downtown, the CIN2 data center facility is used for production colocation, backup and recovery, and business continuity.
14.13 miles H5 Cincinnati 360 Gest
The Cincinnati data center is home to several metro, long haul and telecommunications access providers such as AT&T, Inteliquent, Windstream and Zayo.
14.80 miles Cogent: 1120 W 6th
14.96 miles Verizon: 1200 W 8th
15.00 miles H5 Cincinnati II
The 107,000 SF Cincinnati data center was originally developed by PNC Bank
15.19 miles Lumen Cincinnati (1428 West 8th)
16.46 miles CAI Investments: Ivorydale, St. Bernard
CAI Investments has proposed a data center of about 140,000 sq ft inside an existing building on part of the former Procter & Gamble Ivorydale complex at 5177 Spring Grove Avenue in St. Bernard, Ohio. In October 2026 the owner asked the city zoning board to table its request.
17.36 miles CyrusOne Cincinnati-Carver Road (CIN99)
Enterprise data center at 9935 Carver Road in Blue Ash, Ohio, owned by The Kroger Co. CyrusOne listed the facility as CIN99 in its 2024 Ohio portfolio.
17.43 miles CyrusOne Cincinnati-Blue Ash
17.65 miles CyrusOne Kentucky
Although the data center is in Florence Kentucky, it is close to downtown Cincinnati.
18.21 miles altafiber: Evendale
altafiber (formerly Cincinnati Bell) central office at 10000 Reading Road in Evendale, Ohio. The 1963 building houses the switch that is becoming altafiber's single voice core as older switches retire.
18.38 miles WiredRE: i74 Wired
i74 Wired is a 65,000 sq ft multi-tenant office campus at 2300 Montana Avenue in Cincinnati with a first-generation enterprise data center. Built in 1973 as the headquarters of Cincom Systems, it was relaunched as i74 Wired around 2016 and was put up for sale in 2026.
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19.08 miles CyrusOne Cincinnati-Goldcoast
Former CyrusOne colocation site (CIN98) at 11500 Goldcoast Drive in Sycamore Township, Ohio. The building sold to a new owner in 2019, and CyrusOne no longer operates the site.
19.46 miles Encore Technologies BLU1
19.80 miles GE Aerospace: Cincinnati Data Center
Enterprise data center at 8700 Governors Hill Drive in Symmes Township, near Cincinnati, Ohio, leased to General Electric. The 69,826 sq ft building dates to 1985 and sold to a new owner in 2021.
19.95 miles Cogent: Sharonville

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Founded in 2019, Crane Data Centers Inc. is a San Francisco-based company building the next generation of hyperscale data centers. The company prioritizes sustainable, secure, and scalable solutions for massive data storage and processing needs.
With its first campus underway in Oregon and plans for expansion, Crane Data Centers Inc. is a promising player in the growing data center industry.

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