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.
However, following intense local pushback over utility strain, the Lordstown Village Council implemented a strict permit moratorium that has frozen large-scale data center construction. In response, SoftBank and Foxconn have pivoted the site's primary objective, transforming the massive industrial footprint into a high-tech manufacturing hub dedicated to building modular data center components and server equipment for other unhindered Stargate sites.
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| NN milesInterested in this information?Contact us | BitDeer: Niles, Ohio |
Bitdeer is developing a bitcoin mining campus on the site of the former Niles Generating Station in Niles, Ohio.
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| NN milesInterested in this information?Contact us | Oppidan: McDonald |
Oppidan proposes a multi-building data center campus on the former McDonald Steel and U.S. Steel mill land off Ohio Avenue in McDonald, Ohio.
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| NN milesInterested in this information?Contact us | Edge 1343: Youngstown |
Edge 1343 runs an on-site data center and carrier hotel inside its coworking building at 1343 Belmont Avenue in Youngstown, Ohio.
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| NN milesInterested in this information?Contact us | Crane: Hubbard (Project Milo) |
Crane Data Centers' Project Milo was a proposed data center campus on the former Deer Creek Golf Course in Hubbard, Ohio, dropped before voters banned data centers in 2026.
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| NN milesInterested in this information?Contact us | Applied Partners: Alliance |
Applied Partners plans a data center and a heat-exchanger factory on the former Alliance Castings steel foundry on East Broadway Street in Alliance, Ohio.
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