Public statement checked
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.
Evidence limitation: Underlying application and staff report
Claims · by state
Checked claims about Ohio data-center projects
13 checked claims so far about projects in Ohio — because those are the Ohio claims DataCenterData has checked, not a count of Ohio claims or data centers. Ohio records →
13 claims · newest check first
A verdict applies only to the wording shown.
Company claims are shown as stated; they are not findings.
Public statement checked
The natural-gas power facility described as adjacent to Vantage's planned Millersport campus means the campus will not affect electricity costs for local residents or businesses.
Evidence limitation: The underlying OPSB application, hearing outcome, certificate status, and future effect on retail bills.
Question answered
Treating Ohio's 85% data-center tariff as proof that residents cannot be affected by data-center-driven power costs.
Evidence limitation: Whether generation, transmission, wholesale-market or pre-tariff contracts can affect household bills remains a…
Public statement checked
Google reported 2025 withdrawal, discharge and consumption figures for its New Albany, Lancaster and Lockbourne campuses.
Evidence limitation: Independent utility/meter corroboration
Question answered
Vantage OH1's first building opened by December 2025 and is now operating.
Evidence limitation: Whether any OH1 building has opened or is serving load.
Question answered
Reading Meta's nuclear agreements as dedicated plants directly wired to the New Albany campus.
Evidence limitation: none recorded.
Question answered
Reading New Albany's $178 million payroll-equivalent figure as actual operator payroll.
Evidence limitation: The hyperscaler's identity, underlying component revenue records, actual payroll and employee or contractor headcount.
Question answered
Treating New Albany's no-additional-capacity statement as proof that facility-level water impact is negligible.
Evidence limitation: Independent utility/meter records
Public statement checked
Ohio has more than 200 data centers.
Evidence limitation: A statewide census with consistent record units, lifecycle rules, deduplication and a dated coverage audit.
Question answered
Reading Ohio's equipment sales-and-use-tax exemption as meaning a qualifying project pays no taxes.
Evidence limitation: Net fiscal result of any named project
Question answered
Ohio's data-center sales-and-use-tax exemption statute has been repealed, or existing agreements were cancelled, by Governor DeWine's pause.
Evidence limitation: The governor's direct May communication was not independently retrieved.
Question answered
Treating Ohio EPA's draft general permit as final blanket permission or proof of actual discharge.
Evidence limitation: Individual permits for named data-center outfalls were not inventoried.
Question answered
Treating Microsoft's roughly 50 operating employees per facility as current observed employment across three sites.
Evidence limitation: none recorded.
What this covers. 13 checked claims so far about projects in Ohio. That is because those are the Ohio claims DataCenterData has checked, not a count of claims or of data centers. Where a state, operator, project or topic shows no checked claim, read it as “not yet checked by DataCenterData”.
What a verdict means. A verdict applies only to the wording shown and the evidence linked on the check date. “Unknown” means the reviewed evidence did not establish the point; it never means zero or false.
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