Meta design capacity
Company description of New Albany after construction—not metered load and not a utility-service commitment.
Ohio evidence index · last reviewed 11 September 2026
The headline is not the finding.
A major-project first pass plus a physical-facility inventory and a reviewed claim-and-inference desk. We separate grid demand from IT capacity, construction from operation, supported jobs from permanent headcount, and a draft permit from measured water use.
17reviewed major project or campus records—not buildings
29physical-facility/building records: 21 current/available and eight pre-operational
9published claims, unit distinctions and common inferences tested
0statewide totals published before a comparable denominator exists
This is not “every Ohio data center.”It covers major projects with useful public evidence. A commercial directory count can mix a campus, a building, a tenant suite and a network point-of-presence. The public first pass does not inherit those rows or call missing facilities zero.
Included now
Major hyperscale projects plus 29 colocation, enterprise and hyperscale building records directly identified by operators, with lifecycle status preserved.
Still missing
The city says 15 companies operate 40+ New Albany facilities. We now expose 43 named municipal construction/project leads, but opening dates and identities are not reconciled to that operating denominator. CyrusOne COL1, private/government sites, retired facilities and observed outcomes remain queued.
Not additive
Three Google campuses, a multi-building AWS expansion and a four-data-center Vantage plan are each one record here. The record count is not a building count.
Where the evidence points
Projects and buildings are different layers.
Orange markers are project or campus records. Cyan markers are operator-identified physical facilities or buildings. Records are anchored to Census geography centroids—not parcel coordinates—and dense Central Ohio markers are visibly offset to remain tappable.
Boundaries: Census TIGERweb Generalized ACS 2025. Centroids: Census TIGERweb Current/ACS26. Lewis Center uses the Orange Township centroid. Dense Central Ohio markers receive disclosed presentation offsets; the exact source centroids remain in the data. Open map data and precision notes →
What the first pass reveals
Ohio’s public numbers speak different languages.
The most impressive-looking figures are usually not directly comparable. The honest statewide view starts by refusing to add them.
Vantage OH1 IT load
Planned critical IT capacity across three buildings—not total campus grid demand.
Vantage OH2 IT capacity
Planned capacity in Millersport. Its adjacent-generation and no-rate-impact claims still need regulatory records.
Google Ohio investment
Company statewide investment-to-date claim; it cannot be allocated across three campuses from the reviewed disclosure.
New Albany building reconciliation
The city names the buildings. It does not prove they are operating.
We transcribed every current municipal Commercial Projects entry described as a “new data center” or “new data building.” This creates a public identity queue without turning a construction-project page into an operating-facility count.
43named municipal data-center or data-building project leads
8company labels, including one unresolved NBY label
4already crosswalked to physical QTS building records
2support buildings explicitly excluded from this ledger
What 43 does—and does not—mean.It is a count of named municipal construction/project entries, including future work and repeated generic building labels. It does not verify 43 distinct operating facilities and it does not reconcile the city’s separate “15 companies operate 40+ facilities” claim. That requires opening dates, identities and lifecycle evidence.
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| Company label / building | Published location | Square feet | Reconciliation status | Primary source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Open data: New Albany building-lead JSON. Open the city’s Commercial Projects source ↗. This ledger excludes an AWS security-control building and a Meta administration building that the city lists because their descriptions identify support uses rather than data buildings. Unknown operating status remains unknown.
Claims and inferences, reviewed
What the record actually establishes.
This is not an automated news feed. One card tests an exact published count; others label a common inference or unit mistake before testing it. We do not attribute synthetic wording to a source that never said it.
Published count · statewideNot reconstructed
Ohio has more than 200 data centers.
Ohio’s consumer advocate repeats a commercial-directory count. It is a useful market signal, not a state census with a public building-level denominator. DataCenterData does not adopt 200+ as its own total.
Inference tested · power / ratesOverstated
Treating the 85% tariff as proof that residents cannot be affected by data-center power costs.
AEP Ohio’s tariff gives real protection against stranded distribution investment: large new loads face minimum demand, collateral and cancellation obligations. It does not prove that generation, transmission or wholesale-market costs can never affect household bills.
Unit distinction · taxes / jobsWrong unit
Reading New Albany’s $178 million payroll equivalent as actual operator payroll.
The city calls $178 million a payroll equivalent: the payroll that would yield the same municipal revenue at a 2% income-tax rate. It is not the operator’s payroll or an employee count.
Inference tested · incentivesOverstated
Reading Ohio’s equipment exemption as meaning qualifying projects pay no taxes.
The state statute authorizes a complete or partial sales-and-use-tax exemption for qualifying equipment. It does not by itself erase payroll withholding, all real-property taxes, local charges or negotiated payments. Net fiscal impact must be rebuilt agreement by agreement.
Relationship tested · powerWrong relationship
Reading Meta’s nuclear agreements as plants directly wired to its New Albany campus.
Meta says its agreements will deliver power to regional grids supporting its operations. The city says New Albany draws from the regional grid. That is different from a dedicated plant or wire serving only the campus.
Projection distinction · jobsProjection, not outcome
Treating Microsoft’s ~50 employees per facility as current observed employment across three sites.
Microsoft projects about 50 employees per facility once operational and says the three facilities are to be operational by the end of 2029. Current construction activity is not observed permanent operating headcount.
Document status · waterDraft, not measured
Treating Ohio EPA’s draft general permit as final blanket permission or proof of actual discharge.
The reviewed Ohio EPA document is a draft general permit. A draft is not a final site authorization, actual discharge or evidence of compliance. Any covered discharge would still face eligibility, effluent and monitoring conditions.
Inference tested · waterEvidence incomplete
Treating New Albany’s no-additional-capacity statement as proof of negligible facility water impact.
The city says data centers have not required additional capacity. That does not disclose facility withdrawals, consumption, discharge, potable/reclaimed shares or peak-day demand. Those remain unknown—not zero.
Published company claim · powerUnverified outcome
Vantage says Millersport will not affect electricity costs for local residents or businesses.
Vantage identifies adjacent natural-gas generation and makes the no-impact claim. Testing it requires final generation, interconnection, backup-power, fuel, transmission and cost-allocation records—not a project page alone.
Open data: Ohio claim checks JSON. A “misleading” or “overstated” verdict does not imply bad faith; it means the wording outruns the cited evidence.
Physical facilities
The older market still counts.
Twenty-nine operator-identified facility or building records across nine providers are included: 21 are current or marketed as available and eight are development/preleasing. These are building/facility IDs—not AI-campus announcements—and several have operated or changed hands for years.
Cologix
COL1–4 are current facility listings; COL5 is expected ready-for-service Q3 2026; COL7 and COL8 are preleasing.
Operator location list ↗Expedient
Three Columbus-market facilities and two Cleveland facilities. CMH3 is a former Nationwide site added in 2024.
Columbus facilities ↗Cleveland facilities ↗ark data centers
Akron I, Akron II, Canton and Cleveland. Exact addresses remain unresolved for this public pass.
Operator location list ↗H5 Data Centers
Cincinnati I, Cincinnati II and the Cleveland Technology Center.
Operator location list ↗CyrusOne
CIN2 in Cincinnati and CIN5 in Lebanon on the operator’s current Ohio list.
Operator location list ↗DataBank + Flexential
DataBank CLE1 in downtown Cleveland and Flexential’s Cincinnati facility in West Chester Township.
DataBank CLE1 ↗Flexential Cincinnati ↗QTS
DC1 and DC2 at each of the New Albany 1 and New Albany 2 campuses. QTS currently classifies both campuses as in development.
New Albany 1 ↗New Albany 2 ↗STACK
NAL01A is current/available; NAL01B is pre-operational. The 11 MW and planned 51 MW building figures do not equal the 60 MW campus headline, so the mismatch stays visible.
STACK NAL01 ↗Operator-identified seed, not “all Ohio” yet.This pass identifies 29 distinct physical-facility or building records: 21 current/available and eight pre-operational. A separate ledger now exposes 43 named New Albany municipal construction/project leads, but they stay out of this facility count until identities and operating stages are reconciled. Historical aliases are preserved so acquisitions do not silently create duplicates.
| Market | Facilities in this pass | What is quantified | Evidence boundary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Columbus / Central Ohio | Cologix COL1–5, COL7–8; Expedient CMH1–3; QTS New Albany 1 DC1–2 and New Albany 2 DC1–2; STACK NAL01A–B16 records · 8 pre-operational, 8 current/available | Cologix lists COL3 at 18+ MW; Expedient reports 13.4 MW across its portfolio; STACK lists 11 MW and planned 51 MW building figures that conflict with its 60 MW campus headline. | Google, AWS, Meta, Microsoft, Vantage and EdgeConneX campus/location records stay in the project inventory until building identities are independently reconciled. |
| Cleveland | Expedient CLE1–2; H5 Cleveland; DataBank CLE1; ark Cleveland5 physical facility records | Expedient reports 4.7 MW critical IT load across CLE1–2. Other comparable capacity remains unknown. | DataBank’s record carries its 2017 acquisition from 365 Data Centers as history, not as a second facility. |
| Cincinnati / Southwest | H5 Cincinnati I–II; CyrusOne CIN2; Flexential Cincinnati4 physical facility records | CyrusOne reports 11 MW total IT capacity for CIN2; Flexential reports 3.80 MW critical-load UPS capacity. H5 comparable capacity is not established here. | CyrusOne CIN5 is grouped under Lebanon below; facility addresses remain unknown where the operator page did not establish them. |
| Akron / Canton | ark Akron I–II and Canton3 physical facility records | ark lists 1.5 MW utility power capacity for Canton; Akron’s two-site allocation remains unresolved. | The operator establishes two Akron facility IDs, but this pass does not invent separate addresses or capacities. |
| Lebanon | CyrusOne CIN51 physical facility record | CyrusOne reports 12 MW total IT capacity. | This is Lebanon, Ohio—not Meta’s separate Lebanon, Indiana project. |
Open data includes every row, candidate queue and current source: Ohio physical-facility JSON. These 29 rows and the 17 project/campus rows are intentionally non-additive.
Major-project first pass
Seventeen projects, with incompatible units left intact.
These rows prioritize current primary or first-party records. A company page can establish what a company claims; it does not independently prove delivery. Open each source directly.
6 operating or availability signals5 construction or site preparation1 operator-listed, stage unresolved5 announced or development
| Project / operator | Stage | Comparable size | Investment / jobs | What the source establishes | Primary evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Albany campus | Operating evidence | Unknown MWPUE reported; demand undisclosed | Part of $20B+ Ohio investment claimNot site-allocated | Google lists the campus and a trailing-12-month campus PUE, which it reports only after at least 12 months of data. | Ohio location ↗Campus PUE ↗ |
| Lancaster campus | Operating evidence | Unknown MWPUE reported; demand undisclosed | Part of $20B+ Ohio investment claimNot site-allocated | Google lists the campus and publishes a campus PUE. No comparable project-demand figure was found. | Ohio location ↗Campus PUE ↗ |
| Columbus campus | Operating evidence | Unknown MWPUE reported; demand undisclosed | Part of $20B+ Ohio investment claimNot site-allocated | A cloud region is not used as a building count. The campus PUE is the stronger operating signal. | Ohio location ↗Campus PUE ↗ |
| New Albany expansion | Operating + construction | Unknown MWNo comparable demand found | $6.2B Licking County, 2015–2024; 1,550 FTE jobs supported annuallyRegional company study; not permanent campus headcount | Municipal updates list multiple AWS buildings in construction. The economic figures are regional and model-based. | City project list ↗City economic account ↗ |
| Fayette County site | Announced / planned | Unknown MWNo comparable demand found | $5B estimated investmentCompany announcement | AWS calls this the first of up to eight new sites contemplated by 2030. Announcement is not completed investment. | AWS announcement ↗ |
| New Albany / Prometheus | Operating + expansion | 1 GW+Company capacity after completion; not measured load | $1.5B+ listed campus investment; 300+ jobs supported once completedCompany figures; Prometheus scope not separated | An operating campus and a major expansion coexist. Future capacity is not treated as current consumption. | Meta location record ↗Capacity disclosure ↗ |
| Bowling Green campus | Under construction | Unknown MWNo comparable demand found | $800M+; 1,000+ skilled trade workers at peak; ~100 operating jobs once completedCompany projections | Meta lists a 2025 groundbreaking. Prospective operating jobs are not observed employment. | Meta location record ↗ |
| New Albany campus | Construction / site work | Unknown MW | ~50 employees per building once operationalCompany projection; end-2029 target | Contractor work nearing completion is not the same as an operating data center. | Construction update ↗Impact brief ↗ |
| Heath campus | Site preparation | Unknown MW | ~50 employees per building once operationalCompany projection; end-2029 target | Microsoft said in July 2026 that vertical-construction timing was not yet determined. | Construction update ↗Impact brief ↗ |
| Hebron campus | Site preparation | Unknown MW | ~50 employees per building once operationalCompany projection; end-2029 target | Microsoft explicitly says completion of construction does not indicate operation or availability. | Construction update ↗Impact brief ↗ |
| OH1 campus | Construction; opening unverified | 192 MWPlanned critical IT load · 3 buildings | $2B+; 1,500 across construction and operationsCompany commitment; job categories not separated | A projected December 2025 first-building opening was not independently confirmed in the reviewed record. | Vantage campus page ↗City construction list ↗ |
| OH2 Millersport | Development | 696 MWPlanned critical IT capacity · up to 4 data centers | $2.1B+; 2,500+ construction jobs; 50+ permanent Vantage positionsCompany projections | Adjacent gas generation is announced. Future bill effects are not yet an observed result. | Vantage project page ↗ |
| New Albany 1 | In development · operator classified | Unknown MW2 identified buildings | QTS announced roughly $1.5B for a New Albany campus in 2023; mapping to today's campus labels is unresolvedCompany claim—not allocated | QTS publishes two building addresses and says the campus uses closed-loop cooling. Neither establishes measured water use or building-level operation. | QTS campus page ↗ |
| New Albany 2 | In development · operator classified | Unknown MW2 identified buildings | QTS announced roughly $1.5B for a New Albany campus in 2023; mapping to today's campus labels is unresolvedCompany claim—not allocated | The operator page establishes two building IDs and addresses, but not individual opening dates or observed outcomes. | QTS campus page ↗ |
| Van Wert campus | Announced / early planning | Unknown MW7 planned buildings · approximately 902 acres | Up to $10B; thousands of construction jobs; hundreds of full-time jobsCompany projections—not outcomes | QTS labels the design conceptual and still in planning. Closed-loop cooling and ratepayer statements remain future company claims. | QTS project page ↗ |
| NAL01 | Operator marketed; availability not independently audited | 60 MWCampus critical-capacity headline · excluded from aggregation | Investment and jobs not quantified in reviewed source | STACK lists two buildings and an acquired 2019 campus. Its 11 MW and 51 MW building cards do not equal its 60 MW campus headline, so the discrepancy remains visible. | STACK campus page ↗2019 acquisition ↗ |
| New Albany location | Operator location + municipal building lead | Unknown MWOne 700,000 sq ft municipal project lead | Investment and jobs not quantified in reviewed sources | The operator confirms the location; the city lists one data-building project at 2465 Clover Valley Road. Neither establishes operation, so it remains outside the physical-facility count. | Operator location ↗City building record ↗ |
Open data: Ohio project JSON. The two disclosed Vantage capacities are critical IT figures; Meta’s 1 GW is a company capacity description. They are not summed because their engineering and temporal boundaries are not yet reconciled.
The regulatory ledger
Two records worth watching.
Tariff and incentive rules create future verification hooks. The public value is not merely finding the rule—it is matching each beneficiary’s promise to later compliance records.
AEP Ohio Schedule DCT
Applies to new or expanded data-center loads over 25 MW. It includes load-study fees, ramp rules, minimum demand charges, collateral for weaker credits and 100% buildout reimbursement for certain pre-energization cancellation or delay.
Read current tariff guidance ↗Ohio Revised Code §122.175
Eligible projects require at least $100 million of capital investment and $1.5 million of annual payroll, with annual reporting of employment, withholding and investment. The hard next step is obtaining agreement- and taxpayer-level reports—not assuming statutory review equals public outcome transparency.
Read the statute ↗