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That is meaningful site-specific evidence; it does not establish every tariff, wholesale-market effect or project in Indiana.", "unknown": "None recorded", "counterevidence": [], "verdict": "Partially supported", "confidence": { "level": "medium", "basis": "Gov. record; Institution" }, "sources": [ { "title": "Indianapolis petitioner appendix, cases 2025-CAP-856 / 2025-CVR-856", "publisher": "", "class": "Gov. record", "published": "", "retrieved": "2026-09-10", "url": "https://indianapolis-in.municodemeetings.com/sites/indianapolis-in.municodemeetings.com/files/fileattachments/mdc_hearing_examiner/meeting/5368/2025-cap-856_2025-cvr-856_petitioner_appendix_mdc_3-18-26_final.pdf", "locator": "https://indianapolis-in.municodemeetings.com/sites/indianapolis-in.municodemeetings.com/files/fileattachments/mdc_hearing_examiner/meeting/5368/2025-cap-856_2025-cvr-856_petitioner_appendix_mdc_3-18-26_final.pdf", "supports": "" } ], "last_checked": "2026-09-10", "next_check": { "trigger": "None recorded", "date": null }, "history": [], "entity_ids": [ "sabey-indianapolis" ], "href": "/claims/sabey-cost-allocation-generalized/", "migration_status": "pending_independent_review", "related_pages": [ { "title": "DataCenterData Indiana project index", "url": "/indiana/#projects" } ] }, { "id": "ohio-count-200", "record_id": null, "topic": "Statewide count", "state": "OH", "kind": "tested-reading", "claim": "Ohio has more than 200 data centers.", "claimant": { "name": "Ohio Consumers' Counsel", "role": "advocate", "said_on": null, "said_where": { "title": "Ohio Consumers' Counsel quick facts", "url": "https://occ.ohio.gov/factsheet/quick-facts-data-centers-ohio", "locator": "section 'Data Centers in Ohio'" } }, "unit_scope": { "unit": "Statewide count", "scope": "Ohio", "period": "None recorded" }, "supports": "Ohio's consumer advocate repeats a commercial directory count. It is useful as a market signal, but the underlying unit can include buildings, suites and campuses and is not a state census. The advocate's own wording also varies: its web fact sheet says more than 200, while its March 2026 PDF fact sheet says about 200. DataCenterData does not adopt 200+ as its own count.", "unknown": "None recorded", "counterevidence": [], "verdict": "Not independently verified", "confidence": { "level": "medium", "basis": "Gov. record; Institution; Gov. record" }, "sources": [ { "title": "Ohio Consumers' Counsel quick facts", "publisher": "Ohio Consumers' Counsel", "class": "Gov. record", "published": "", "retrieved": "2026-09-12", "url": "https://occ.ohio.gov/factsheet/quick-facts-data-centers-ohio", "locator": "https://occ.ohio.gov/factsheet/quick-facts-data-centers-ohio", "supports": "OCC web fact sheet repeats a commercial-directory count of more than 200." }, { "title": "Data Centers in Ohio (OCC fact sheet PDF, March 2026)", "publisher": "Ohio Consumers' Counsel", "class": "Gov. record", "published": "", "retrieved": "2026-09-12", "url": "https://occ.ohio.gov/sites/default/files/2026-03/OCC-Data-Centers-in-Ohio.pdf", "locator": "'Ohio has about 200 data centers, making it the fifth highest state in the country.'", "supports": "OCC March 2026 PDF uses 'about 200', not 'more than 200'." } ], "last_checked": "2026-09-12", "next_check": { "trigger": "None recorded", "date": null }, "history": [ { "date": "2026-09-11", "kind": "correction", "from": "Ohio's consumer advocate repeats a commercial directory count. 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That is real protection against stranded distribution investment; it is not proof that generation, transmission or wholesale-market costs can never affect household bills. The 85% figure is also narrower than it sounds: under AEP's published formula the contract-capacity minimum is about 72.5% at 50 MW and 82.5% at 100 MW, and 85% of contract capacity is a cap reached only near 117 MW (a separate ratchet uses 85% of the highest billing demand in the prior 11 months). 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Arithmetic below is DataCenterData's, not an AEP quotation." }, { "title": "AEP Ohio Updates PUCO on Data Center Load: Figures Show Tariff is Working (2026-02-13)", "publisher": "AEP Ohio", "class": "Institution", "published": "2026-02-13", "retrieved": "2026-09-12", "url": "https://www.aepohio.com/company/news/view?releaseID=10753", "locator": "'in addition to 12,219 MW of data center contracts signed before the tariff went into effect'; 'AEP Ohio now has 17,861 MW of contracted data center projects'", "supports": "AEP reports contracted quantities, not current consumption." } ], "last_checked": "2026-09-12", "next_check": { "trigger": "None recorded", "date": null }, "history": [ { "date": "2026-09-11", "kind": "correction", "from": "The PUCO-approved AEP Ohio tariff allocates substantial underuse and cancellation risk to new loads over 25 MW. 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It authorizes a complete or partial sales-and-use-tax exemption for qualifying data-center equipment. It does not by itself mean a qualifying project pays no taxes, and it does not repeal existing agreements. 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Google later published company-reported 2025 campus figures for New Albany, Lancaster and Lockbourne; those remain company claims with third-party limited assurance, not municipal meter audits. Independent utility/meter records, cooling share and peak-day demand remain missing for other operators.", "unknown": "Independent utility/meter records; cooling-only share; peak-day demand; operators other than Google's company-reported 2025 campus rows.", "counterevidence": [], "verdict": "Unknown", "confidence": { "level": "medium", "basis": "Gov. record; Institution" }, "sources": [ { "title": "City of New Albany data-center information", "publisher": "City of New Albany", "class": "Gov. record", "published": "", "retrieved": "2026-09-12", "url": "https://datacenters.newalbanyohio.org/", "locator": "https://datacenters.newalbanyohio.org/", "supports": "City says it has not needed additional water capacity because of data centers. 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Fairfield Energy says it applied to the Ohio Power Siting Board as Case No. 26-0160-EL-BGN for up to 1,350 MW net gas generation and about 1,040 MW of battery storage, and that construction cannot begin until required approvals and permits are obtained. Those generation figures are not data-center IT capacity. The plans make the relationship clearer, but they still cannot establish future retail-bill effects as an observed outcome, and no post-hearing OPSB order is published.", "unknown": "None recorded", "counterevidence": [], "verdict": "Company claim", "confidence": { "level": "medium", "basis": "Institution; Institution" }, "sources": [ { "title": "Vantage Millersport campus FAQ", "publisher": "Vantage Data Centers", "class": "Institution", "published": "", "retrieved": "2026-09-12", "url": "https://vantagemillersportcampus.com/faq/", "locator": "https://vantagemillersportcampus.com/faq/", "supports": "Company prediction that the campus will not affect local electricity costs. 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Water quantity not verifiable", "unknown": "permitted or measured water quantity", "counterevidence": [], "verdict": "Unknown", "confidence": { "level": "low", "basis": "utility commission final order" }, "sources": [ { "title": "Indiana IURC order 46276", "publisher": "", "class": "Gov. record", "published": "2026-04-29", "retrieved": "2026-09-11", "url": "https://www.in.gov/iurc/files/ord_46276_042926.pdf", "locator": "https://www.in.gov/iurc/files/ord_46276_042926.pdf", "supports": "" } ], "last_checked": "2026-09-11", "next_check": { "trigger": "None recorded", "date": null }, "history": [], "entity_ids": [ "google-fort-wayne" ], "href": "/claims/google-fort-wayne-cooling-water/", "migration_status": "pending_independent_review" }, { "id": "claim:meta-jeffersonville:cooling-water", "record_id": "meta-jeffersonville", "topic": "Cooling + water", "state": "IN", "kind": "record-claim", "claim": "Meta Jeffersonville: Not verifiable", "claimant": { "name": "Meta", "role": "company", "said_on": null, "said_where": { "title": "Meta project announcement", "url": "https://datacenters.atmeta.com/2024/01/hello-jeffersonville/", "locator": null } }, "unit_scope": { "unit": "Not established in the reviewed project announcement · Not established in the reviewed project announcement · No permitted or measured water quantity established in the reviewed source", "scope": "Jeffersonville, Indiana", "period": "none established" }, "supports": "Not verifiable. Not verifiable. Not verifiable", "unknown": "permitted or measured water quantity", "counterevidence": [], "verdict": "Company claim", "confidence": { "level": "low", "basis": "company announcement" }, "sources": [ { "title": "Meta project announcement", "publisher": "", "class": "Company", "published": "2024-01", "retrieved": "2026-09-10", "url": "https://datacenters.atmeta.com/2024/01/hello-jeffersonville/", "locator": "https://datacenters.atmeta.com/2024/01/hello-jeffersonville/", "supports": "" } ], "last_checked": "2026-09-10", "next_check": { "trigger": "None recorded", "date": null }, "history": [], "entity_ids": [ "meta-jeffersonville" ], "href": "/claims/meta-jeffersonville-cooling-water/", "migration_status": "pending_independent_review" }, { "id": "claim:microsoft-la-porte:incentives", "record_id": "microsoft-la-porte", "topic": "Incentives", "state": "IN", "kind": "record-claim", "claim": "La Porte Common Council terminated Microsoft's local tax abatement and the state DATA exemption is executed.", "claimant": { "name": null, "role": "common-reading", "said_on": null, "said_where": null }, "unit_scope": { "unit": "local and state incentive status", "scope": "Microsoft La Porte", "period": "minutes 2026-03-02; IEDC portal observation 2026-09-11" }, "supports": "The 2 March 2026 council minutes record unanimous adoption of Resolution R-3-2026, whose agenda title describes rescission of the 2024 Microsoft taxpayer agreement, including termination of the tax abatement. DataCenterData has not obtained the adopted resolution text and therefore does not independently state its full legal effect. IEDC showed the state DATA exemption as a pending accepted offer when checked.", "unknown": "Adopted resolution text and full legal effect; whether the IEDC DATA offer has been executed.", "verdict": "Partially supported", "confidence": { "level": "medium", "basis": "Municipal minutes describe adoption of a titled resolution; controlling signed text was not obtained." }, "sources": [ { "title": "La Porte Common Council minutes, March 2, 2026", "publisher": "City of La Porte", "class": "Gov. record", "published": "2026-03-02", "retrieved": "2026-09-11", "url": "https://www.cityoflaporte.com/uploads/minutes/m_1932_Council-Mar.2-2026-Minutes.docx", "locator": "'Introduction of a Resolution ... 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These are company-reported campus figures with third-party limited assurance, not city-meter evidence, cooling-only measures, or peak-day rates. Lockbourne is a separate source campus label and is not silently attached to the Columbus campus record.", "unknown": "Independent utility/meter corroboration; cooling share; peak-day demand; operators other than Google.", "verdict": "Company claim", "confidence": { "level": "medium", "basis": "Company environmental report; not a municipal meter audit." }, "sources": [ { "title": "Google 2026 Environmental Report landing page", "publisher": "Google", "class": "Company", "published": "2026", "retrieved": "2026-09-12", "url": "https://sustainability.google/reports/google-2026-environmental-report/", "locator": "Google 2026 Environmental Report, p. 97 (2025 campus water table). Landing page opened 2026-09-12; exact p.97 values are the independently extracted 2025 campus figures from that report (million US gallons).", "supports": "Company-reported 2025 withdrawal, discharge and consumption by named campus. Google says water is potable unless specified. Third-party limited assurance is not a municipal meter audit." } ], "next_check": { "trigger": "Municipal or utility meter records for the named campuses", "date": null }, "entity_ids": [ "google-new-albany-oh", "google-lancaster-oh" ], "related_pages": [ { "title": "Ohio projects", "url": "/ohio/#projects" } ], "migration_status": "pending_independent_review", "href": "/claims/google-ohio-2025-campus-water/", "counterevidence": [], "history": [], "last_checked": "2026-09-12" }, { "id": "ohio-exemption-pause", "record_id": null, "topic": "Taxes / incentives", "state": "OH", "kind": "tested-reading", "claim": "Ohio's data-center sales-and-use-tax exemption statute has been repealed, or existing agreements were cancelled, by Governor DeWine's pause.", "claimant": { "name": null, "role": "common-reading", "said_on": null, "said_where": null }, "unit_scope": { "unit": "new exemption-request pause", "scope": "Ohio", "period": "pause announced 2026-05-27; currentness reported 2026-08-06" }, "supports": "ORC §122.175 remains the statute and still sets the $100 million capital / $1.5 million payroll thresholds. The pause applies to new requests and does not repeal the statute or existing agreements. WOSU / Statehouse News Bureau reported on 6 August 2026 that Governor DeWine said the freeze 'will continue until I leave office.'", "unknown": "The governor's direct May communication was not independently retrieved. Official Tax Credit Authority text of the pause was not obtained.", "verdict": "Partially supported", "confidence": { "level": "medium", "basis": "Statute opened 2026-09-12; currentness attributed to WOSU/Statehouse News Bureau 2026-08-06, also opened 2026-09-12." }, "sources": [ { "title": "Ohio Revised Code §122.175", "publisher": "Ohio Legislative Service Commission", "class": "Gov. record", "published": "2025-09-30", "retrieved": "2026-09-12", "url": "https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-122.175", "locator": "§122.175(A)(5) $100 million capital / $1.5 million annual qualifying payroll; (B) complete or partial exemption", "supports": "The statute remains in force as the eligibility framework." }, { "title": "DeWine: Ohio data center tax break is for next governor to decide on", "publisher": "WOSU / Statehouse News Bureau", "class": "News", "published": "2026-08-06", "retrieved": "2026-09-12", "url": "https://www.wosu.org/2026-08-06/dewine-ohio-data-center-tax-break-is-for-next-governor-to-decide-on", "locator": "paragraphs quoting Gov. Mike DeWine: 'That will continue until I leave office.' Published August 6, 2026.", "supports": "Attributed currentness of the new-request pause through the remainder of Governor DeWine's term. Not an independently retrieved governor communication." } ], "next_check": { "trigger": "Official Tax Credit Authority or governor record of the pause, or a successor action after DeWine leaves office", "date": null }, "migration_status": "pending_independent_review", "href": "/claims/ohio-exemption-pause/", "counterevidence": [], "history": [], "entity_ids": [], "last_checked": "2026-09-12" }, { "id": "claim:vantage-oh1-new-albany:opening", "record_id": "vantage-oh1-new-albany", "topic": "Opening status", "state": "OH", "kind": "record-claim", "claim": "Vantage OH1's first building opened by December 2025 and is now operating.", "claimant": { "name": "Vantage Data Centers", "role": "company", "said_on": null, "said_where": { "title": "Vantage OH1 New Albany page", "url": "https://vantage-dc.com/data-center-locations/north-america/new-albany-ohio", "locator": "planned three-building campus; December 2025 first-building target" } }, "unit_scope": { "unit": "opening / operating milestone", "scope": "Vantage OH1, three-building campus", "period": "projected December 2025; checked 2026-09-11" }, "supports": "The operator page supports a planned three-building campus with 192 MW of planned critical IT load. It still carries a December 2025 first-building target and does not say the building opened. Actual opening is unknown. The passed December 2025 target is stale.", "unknown": "Whether any OH1 building has opened or is serving load.", "verdict": "Unknown", "confidence": { "level": "medium", "basis": "Operator page retrieved 2026-09-11; no opening confirmation." }, "sources": [ { "title": "Vantage OH1 campus overview", "publisher": "Vantage Data Centers", "class": "Company", "published": "", "retrieved": "2026-09-11", "url": "https://vantage-dc.com/data-center-locations/north-america/new-albany-ohio", "locator": "planned three-building campus, 192 MW critical IT load, December 2025 first-building target without opening confirmation", "supports": "Planned specifications and a stale opening target. Not current load, grid demand, or an opening confirmation." } ], "next_check": { "trigger": "Dated operator or municipal opening confirmation", "date": null }, "as_of": "December 2025 target", "migration_status": "pending_independent_review", "href": "/claims/vantage-oh1-new-albany-opening/", "counterevidence": [], "history": [], "entity_ids": [ "vantage-oh1-new-albany" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-11" }, { "id": "claim:vantage-oh2-millersport:opsb-status", "record_id": "vantage-oh2-millersport", "topic": "OPSB / generation status", "state": "OH", "kind": "record-claim", "claim": "Fairfield Energy says it submitted an OPSB application for up to 1,350 MW of net gas generation and approximately 1,040 MW of battery storage.", "claimant": { "name": "Fairfield Energy", "role": "company", "said_on": null, "said_where": { "title": "Fairfield Energy utility-facility page", "url": "https://fairfieldenergycenter.com/home/utility-facility", "locator": "OPSB Case 26-0160-EL-BGN" } }, "unit_scope": { "unit": "OPSB application status and MW kind", "scope": "Fairfield Energy Center adjacent to Vantage OH2", "period": "application pending; hearing noticed for 2026-09-17" }, "supports": "Fairfield Energy's page says it submitted OPSB Case 26-0160-EL-BGN for up to 1,350 MW net gas generation plus approximately 1,040 MW of battery storage, and that construction cannot begin until required approvals and permits are obtained. Those are separate generation/storage figures and cannot be summed with Vantage OH2's 696 MW planned critical-IT capacity. The developer page establishes an application, not a certificate or construction authorization; no post-hearing OPSB order was located.", "unknown": "Staff report, hearing outcome and any OPSB certificate or construction authorization.", "verdict": "Company claim", "confidence": { "level": "medium", "basis": "Developer page; official docket documents were not retrieved." }, "sources": [ { "title": "Fairfield Energy Center major-utility-facility page (OPSB case 26-0160-EL-BGN)", "publisher": "Fairfield Energy", "class": "Company", "published": "", "retrieved": "2026-09-11", "url": "https://fairfieldenergycenter.com/home/utility-facility", "locator": "OPSB Case 26-0160-EL-BGN; up to 1,350 MW net gas plus approximately 1,040 MW battery; construction cannot begin until required approvals", "supports": "Developer-reported pending application. Not a certificate, and not data-center IT capacity." } ], "next_check": { "trigger": "Official OPSB docket 26-0160-EL-BGN after the 17 September 2026 hearing", "date": "2026-09-17" }, "migration_status": "pending_independent_review", "href": "/claims/vantage-oh2-millersport-opsb-status/", "counterevidence": [], "history": [], "entity_ids": [ "vantage-oh2-millersport" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-11" } ] }