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Coverage of the Headwaters rezoning, the data center question, and our campaign. These are other people’s words, not ours... follow any link and read the whole thing.
A hearing on a proposed 500‑megawatt gas‑fired power plant and a 260‑megawatt battery storage system in western Licking County highlighted a sharp split between industry supporters who stress job creation and tax revenue and local opponents who cite air‑pollution, water‑quality and greenhouse‑gas concerns. This article is behind a paywall.
With voters sets to weigh in on a data center project in Ashville in a few weeks, the village south of Columbus has received a $3.5 million donation from the developer.
Given the amount of data center construction already in Ohio, the best economic deal going forward would be to require all new ones to use 90% renewable energy, a new cost-benefit analysis has found. The next-best deal would be to ban new construction altogether, it said.
The Brockovich team on datacenters
