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$1.6bn Cleveland Data Center Plan Rejected

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 pro...

May 18, 2026

Ohio

Developers Submit Plans for $1.6 Billion Data Center in Cleveland, 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...

May 08, 2026

Ohio

Columbus Data Center Acquired by Occupier

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. ...

April 30, 2026

Ohio

Ohio Republican Urges Data Center to Forgo Tax Subsidy

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 creat...

March 19, 2026

Ohio

New Data Center Build Confirmed in Adams County, Ohio

A new data center has been confirmed for Adams County, Ohio, at the former Dayton Power & Light landfill site. According to a regulatory filing from AES Ohio, the proposed operator has requested an initial electricity load of 100MW in 2028, rising to 1.3GW by 2032.Since the filing, the US ...

March 12, 2026

Ohio

Muhlenberg, Ohio, Imposes One-year Moratorium on New Data Center Projects

The Ohio township of Muhlenberg has introduced a 12-month moratorium on planning applications for new data centers after residents voiced concerns about a digital infrastructure and energy campus being planned nearby.In comments reported by the Circleville Herald, trustee Jeff Wippel said the ...

February 17, 2026

Ohio

500,000 Square Feet Data Center Development Targeted for Scioto County, Ohio

A company behind the affiliate Tilted Gate LLC is looking to develop a data center in Scioto County. The Scioto County commission said the center would be built in the Franklin Furnace area, specifically the Haverhill part of the county. The Scioto County commission has made its own announceme...

January 08, 2026

Ohio

Gridmatic Expands into Ohio

US power marketer Gridmatic has expanded into Ohio, with the launch of its Gridmatic Retail product in the state which will offer both standard and advanced energy contracts to a range of commercial and individual customers, including data centers and other consumers with flexible loads.“We’re...

October 16, 2025

Ohio

Data Center Development in Wisconsin delayed

A data center development in Menomonie, Wisconsin, has been delayed. In a meeting on September 22, Mayor Randy Knaack said that he had drafted a memo to developer Balloonist LLC stating that the city was no longer interested in pursuing the project.“I’m not thrilled about the data center comin...

September 26, 2025

Wisconsin

Rezoning Requests Approved for Data Center in Ohio

Rezoning requests for a data center outside Toledo, Ohio, have been approved. The land parcels are located in Oregon, a city in Lucas County east of Toledo. The Oregon City Council unanimously approved requests for seven land parcels totaling 20 acres to be rezoned from ‘Agricultural District’...

September 01, 2025

Ohio

Tucson Rejects Amazon's Project Blue Data Center Campus

The Tucson city council voted unanimously to reject Amazon's planned Project Blue AI data center campus. Mayor Regina Romero said that the city would also look to place limits on future data centers "to protect Tucson from this industry that is already here in Arizona."Project Blue is a 290-ac...

August 08, 2025

Tucson

$10m Natural Gas Pipeline to Supply Onsite Fuel Cell Facility at Ohio Facility

Aspire Energy Express, the Ohio subsidiary of Chesapeake Utilities, has partnered with American Electric Power (AEP) to build and operate an intrastate natural gas pipeline to serve a fuel cell facility set to power a data center behind-the-meter. The new natural gas pipeline will cost approxi...

August 05, 2025

Ohio

Edged unveils new data center in New Albany, Ohio

Data center firm Edged Energy has officially announced plans for a new data center located at 6525 New Albany Road East, the 206,000 sq ft (19,140 sqm) facility will offer 24MW across two stories. Construction is underway and expected to be completed in July 2025. “We are on a mission to buil...

August 14, 2024

Ohio

Expedient unveils new facility in Columbus, Ohio

Expedient this week announced that it has launched services from a data center in Columbus, Ohio, previously operated by an insurance firm and has added a former Nationwide data center near Columbus to its portfolio. This facility located at 281 E. Powell Road in Lewis Center township, the 102...

February 15, 2024

Ohio

US colocation firm Involta appoints new CEO

US colocation firm Involta has appointed a new CEO, Brett Lindsey to replace Jim Buie, who was at the company for six years. Lindsey previously served as CEO at US fiber provider Everstream, expanding its fiber network from Cleveland across ten states in the midwest as a telecoms executive. In...

January 04, 2024

Ark

Involta purchases land for 20MW campus in Wisconsin

US colocation player Involta recently acquired a plot of land with an existing data center in Green Bay, Wisconsin, to build multiple buildings on the 24.5-acre site, extending the current footprint to up to 20MW. Bruce Lehrman, founder and vice chairman of the Board of Directors for Involta s...

December 23, 2023

Ark

Involta plans Tuscon data center expansion

US data center operator Involta recently revealed plans to expand its Tucson facility in Arizona at the 38,000 square feet to 1MW. This facility located at 1215 East Pennsylvania Street was launched in January this year. It currently offers capacity for 600 racks across 20,000 sq ft of technic...

December 19, 2023

Ark

Ohio firefighters killed in a tower maintenance accident

Concord-Green fire chief Ralph Stegbauer and fire captain Jeffery Skaggs have both passed away while carrying out tower maintenance outside their firehouse in Ohio. Both firefighters were working on the Fayette County, Ohio tower when the mechanical lift they were in overturned. This accident ...

November 29, 2023

Ohio

‘Fortune 200 tech company’ looks to build $750m campus in northern Ohio

An unnamed Fortune 200 tech company plans to build a $750 million data center campus on about 750 acres between Perrysburg and Bowling Green in northern Ohio. This company is also undergoing deals and negotiations through a shell company, Liames LLC.Middleton Township trustees discussed plans ...

October 04, 2023

Ohio

Northern Ohio will see the construction of a 600-acre data center

A data center construction is proposed for the northern Ohio region outside Toledo. The Blade reports that preparations are underway to locate a data center on hundreds of acres in Middleton Township, west of Interstate 75 and near the intersection of State Routes 582 and 25. Details regarding...

September 01, 2023

Ohio

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