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428 S Seiberling St
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Fully operational facility with prospective expansion planned
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Viking Data Centers
Viking: Akron
Year Built:
2022
Utility Provider: Ohio Edison (FirstEnergy)
Ownership: Viking Data Centers
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22 acres
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Viking Data Centers owns and runs this data center in a 1919 tire plant on Seiberling Street in East Akron, once Goodyear's largest tire factory and later a Maxion Wheels plant. Viking bought the building in 2021 and converted it for crypto mining, and it now markets the space for AI computing as well. A new 138 kV to 13.8 kV substation on the site feeds the building, and Viking plans to add more power. Atlantic Energy supplies the site's electricity under a long-term agreement.
SOLAI Limited, formerly BIT Mining, is the anchor tenant. It joined in 2021 as a co-investor in the mining operation, and in 2022 it took sole ownership of its share of the site's power while Viking kept the rest for its own customers. Viking's headquarters is also in the building.
Site History
- March 2026: Viking selected Atlantic Energy as the site's long-term electricity supplier.
- 2023: FirstEnergy finished two new transmission switches that raised the power the site can draw from the grid.
- June 2022: BIT Mining bought out Viking's stake in their joint mining operation, and the two companies split the site's planned power.
- October 2021: Viking Real Estate Holdings bought the former Maxion Wheels plant.
- September 2021: Viking and BIT Mining agreed to develop a crypto mining data center in the building.
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Sites within 15 miles of Viking: Akron
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| 0.02 miles | Prime PointInterested in this information?Contact us | Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us |
| 1.60 miles | Lumen Akron 2 | |
| 2.56 miles | Ark: Akron |
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| 3.27 miles | AT&T: 50 W Bowery St |
AT&T's central office on West Bowery Street in downtown Akron, Ohio, is a seven-story telephone exchange that AT&T leases back after a 2025 sale.
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| 3.31 miles | Cogent: Akron |
Cogent Communications' Akron data center is a two-story telecom building in downtown Akron, Ohio, that Cogent offers for sale, net lease or wholesale colocation.
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| 9.39 miles | Quantum HPC: Norton DC |
A proposal to build Project Triton, a data center, at a former mine in Norton City, Ohio, was canceled following strong opposition from local community groups.
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| 9.93 miles | FairlawnGig: Fairlawn |
FairlawnGig, the City of Fairlawn's municipal broadband utility, runs a small colocation data center inside the city's service department building in Fairlawn, Ohio.
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| 15.19 miles | Ark: Canton |
The facility is a colocation data center delivering 1.5 Megawatts of existing capacity expandable to 3.0 Megawatts.
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| 18.06 miles | LEG Centrum: Massillon |
LEG Centrum proposes a data center on the former Standards Testing Laboratories site on Harsh Avenue SE in Massillon, Ohio, pending a rezoning.
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| 18.50 miles | BitDeer: Shalersville Campus |
Singapore-based Bitdeer Technologies Group is proposing a major $300+ million data center campus on 257 acres in Shalersville Township, Ohio.
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| 18.63 miles | Cleveland Clinic Brecksville |
Cleveland Clinic's primary enterprise data center, built in Brecksville, Ohio, and in service since January 2012.
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| 19.12 miles | Panattoni: Project Shelby (Canton) |
Project Shelby is Panattoni's planned four-building data center campus on former Ford plant land off Georgetown Road NE in northeast Canton, Ohio.
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| 19.60 miles | BitDeer: Massillon, OH |
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Operating Company
Operated by:
Viking Data Centers
Viking Data Centers is a privately held company based in Akron, Ohio. It owns a 380,000-square-foot former Goodyear tire plant at 428 South Seiberling Street in East Akron, built in 1919 and later used by Maxion Wheels, on a 21.5-acre site.
The company opened the building as a data center in 2021 and built its own substation on the site. It leases space and power to crypto mining customers and markets the site for AI computing. SOLAI Limited, formerly BIT Mining, has run bitcoin mining at the site as a tenant since 2021. Ohio Edison delivers power to the site.
Viking Data Centers History:
- In March 2026, Viking selected Atlantic Energy as the electricity supplier for its Akron facility.
- In June 2022, Viking and BIT Mining split the site's power capacity between them, and BIT Mining kept exclusive use of its share.
- In October 2021, Viking Real Estate Holdings bought the former Goodyear plant for $4.22 million.
- In September 2021, Viking formed a joint venture with BIT Mining to build a crypto mining data center at the Akron site.
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