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A published claim and an inference tested are explicitly distinguished; a verdict applies only to the wording shown and evidence reviewed on the stated date.", "verdict_vocabulary": { "not-reconstructed": "Published number lacks an independently reconstructed denominator.", "overstated-inference": "The evidence supports a narrower statement than the inference tested.", "unit-correction": "The underlying figure exists but has been described with the wrong unit or category.", "relationship-correction": "The relationship between entities, infrastructure or contracts has been misstated.", "projection-not-outcome": "A future estimate or commitment is not a measured result.", "draft-not-final": "A proposal or draft is not final authorization or observed activity.", "evidence-incomplete": "The cited evidence does not resolve the broader conclusion.", "company-claim-unverified": "A first-party claim lacks the independent records needed to test the outcome." }, "claim_ids": [ "ohio-count-200", "aep-ratepayer-protection", "new-albany-payroll-equivalent", "ohio-data-centers-no-taxes", "meta-nuclear-direct", "microsoft-jobs-now", "ohio-water-permit", "new-albany-water-capacity", "millersport-rate-impact", "ohio-exemption-pause" ], "migration_note": "Claims live only in claims.json; the legacy public download is a generated filtered projection.", "claims": [ { "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 linked directory's counting unit, lifecycle scope and deduplication have not been reconciled here. OCC's web page says more than 200; a retained PDF at its March-path URL says about 200, while the live page now links to a different May-path PDF that was not retrieved. DataCenterData does not adopt 200-plus as its own count.", "unknown": "A statewide census with consistent record units, lifecycle rules, deduplication and a dated coverage audit.", "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": "Reconcile OCC's current linked PDF and independently reconstruct the statewide denominator", "date": null }, "history": [ { "date": "2026-09-11", "kind": "correction", "from": "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. DataCenterData does not adopt 200+ as its own count.", "to": "Added the wording difference between OCC's web fact sheet and its PDF fact sheet. Verdict unchanged.", "reason": "Added the wording difference between OCC's web fact sheet and its PDF fact sheet. 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PUCO describes the concern as cost shifting from significant transmission infrastructure and other underused investment serving data centers. These protections are real, but the reviewed sources do not prove that residents can never be affected by generation, transmission, wholesale-market or pre-tariff costs. Under AEP's published contract-capacity formula, DataCenterData calculates a minimum of about 72.5% at 50 MW and 82.5% at 100 MW; a separate historical-demand ratchet can produce a higher billed demand. AEP reports that 12,219 of 17,861 MW of contracted data-center projects were signed before the tariff took effect; contracted projects are not current measured load.", "unknown": "Whether generation, transmission, wholesale-market or pre-tariff contracts can affect household bills remains a separate question from this tariff arithmetic.", "counterevidence": [], "verdict": "Partially supported", "confidence": { "level": "medium", "basis": "PUCO government explanation plus AEP company tariff and load disclosures; absolute household-bill conclusion not established." }, "sources": [ { "title": "PUCO approves AEP Ohio data-center tariff", "publisher": "Public Utilities Commission of Ohio", "class": "Gov. record", "published": "2025-07-09", "retrieved": "2026-09-12", "url": "https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/OHPUC/bulletins/3e8bb79", "locator": "Paragraphs following Chair Jenifer French's quotation: significant transmission infrastructure and underused-investment cost shifting", "supports": "PUCO's stated concern and its rationale for safeguards; not proof that household bills can never be affected." }, { "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 describes the 85% contracted-capacity payment term; it does not prove household bills cannot be affected." }, { "title": "AEP Ohio Schedule DCT terms", "publisher": "AEP Ohio", "class": "Company", "published": "", "retrieved": "2026-09-12", "url": "https://www.aepohio.com/company/about/rates/data-center-tariff/", "locator": "Minimum Demand Charges, numbered limbs 1-2; Aggregation; Contract Term; Mandatory Process step 3. Tariff effective 2025-07-23; page publication date not established.", "supports": "Published Schedule DCT minimum-demand formula. 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": "Company", "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": "PUCO rider, transmission-cost or rate-case filings that quantify residential allocation", "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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The 72.5% and 82.5% shares are DataCenterData arithmetic from AEP's published formula (15,000 kW plus 85% above 25,000 kW up to 75,000 kW; 57,500 kW plus 100% above 75,000 kW; capped at 85% of contract capacity).", "evidence_url": "https://www.aepohio.com/company/about/rates/data-center-tariff/", "by": "DataCenterData review", "evidence": [ { "title": "AEP Ohio Data Center Tariff (minimum demand charges)", "url": "https://www.aepohio.com/company/about/rates/data-center-tariff/", "locator": "minimum demand formula: 'the minimum demand cannot exceed 85% of the total contract capacity'" }, { "title": "AEP Ohio Updates PUCO on Data Center Load: Figures Show Tariff is Working (2026-02-13)", "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'" } ] }, { "date": "2026-09-12", "kind": "verdict-changed", "from": "Partially supported; framed as stranded distribution investment", "to": "Not independently verified; scope narrowed to AEP Ohio and infrastructure/transmission risk", "reason": "The second review found that the tariff supports risk allocation but not the absolute household-bill conclusion, and PUCO's own description is not limited to distribution.", "by": "Software-assisted second check" }, { "date": "2026-09-14", "kind": "verdict-changed", "from": "Not independently verified", "to": "Partially supported", "reason": "The tariff supports part of the risk-allocation claim, but it does not prove that generation, transmission or wholesale-market costs can never affect household bills.", "by": "Editorial classification update" } ], "entity_ids": [], "href": "/claims/aep-ratepayer-protection/", "derivation": "AEP published formula: 15,000 kW plus 85% above 25,000 kW up to 75,000 kW; 57,500 kW plus 100% above 75,000 kW; capped at 85% of contract capacity.", "computed_by": "DataCenterData", "review_status": "second_review_complete", "reviewed_at": "2026-09-12", "review_note": "Software-assisted second check; every cited source was re-read by a reviewer who did not author the record." }, { "id": "new-albany-payroll-equivalent", "record_id": null, "topic": "Taxes / jobs", "state": "OH", "kind": "tested-reading", "claim": "Reading New Albany's $178 million payroll-equivalent figure as actual operator payroll.", "claimant": { "name": null, "role": "common-reading", "said_on": null, "said_where": null }, "unit_scope": { "unit": "payroll-equivalent revenue comparison", "scope": "one unnamed hyperscaler in the City of New Albany, Ohio", "period": "tax year 2024, payable 2025" }, "supports": "The city calls $178 million a payroll equivalent: the amount of payroll that would yield the same revenue at its 2% income-tax rate. It is a city-reported comparison for one hyperscaler, not the operator's reported payroll, a headcount or an independently reconciled tax-receipt audit.", "unknown": "The hyperscaler's identity, underlying component revenue records, actual payroll and employee or contractor headcount.", "counterevidence": [], "verdict": "Contradicted", "confidence": { "level": "medium", "basis": "Gov. record; Institution" }, "sources": [ { "title": "New Albany city-finance page", "publisher": "City of New Albany", "class": "Gov. record", "published": "", "retrieved": "2026-09-12", "url": "https://datacenters.newalbanyohio.org/city-finances/", "locator": "Data Centers are a Financial Benefit to New Albany, first paragraph; 2% rate under How does New Albany's minimum annual service payment formula work?, item 3", "supports": "City-reported payroll-equivalent tax-base figure at a 2% income-tax rate, not operator payroll or headcount." } ], "last_checked": "2026-09-12", "next_check": { "trigger": "Company-level tax receipt, service-payment or TIRC record identifying the hyperscaler and components", "date": null }, "history": [ { "date": "2026-09-12", "kind": "wording-changed", "from": "Statewide tax/jobs scope; underlying operator not specified", "to": "One unnamed New Albany hyperscaler, tax year 2024 payable 2025; city-reported comparison", "reason": "The second review narrowed the place, taxpayer and time scope and made the missing underlying records explicit.", "by": "Software-assisted second check" } ], "entity_ids": [], "href": "/claims/new-albany-payroll-equivalent/", "review_status": "second_review_complete", "reviewed_at": "2026-09-12", "related_pages": [ { "title": "DataCenterData New Albany ledger", "url": "/projects/new-albany/" } ], "review_note": "Software-assisted second check; every cited source was re-read by a reviewer who did not author the record." }, { "id": "ohio-data-centers-no-taxes", "record_id": null, "topic": "Taxes / incentives", "state": "OH", "kind": "tested-reading", "claim": "Reading Ohio's equipment sales-and-use-tax exemption as meaning a qualifying project pays no taxes.", "claimant": { "name": null, "role": "common-reading", "said_on": null, "said_where": null }, "unit_scope": { "unit": "Taxes / incentives", "scope": "Ohio", "period": "None recorded" }, "supports": "Ohio Revised Code §122.175 still supplies the eligibility framework: at least $100 million in project investment and at least $1.5 million in annual qualifying payroll, with agreement and annual verification requirements. 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. Whether new exemption requests remain paused is a separate claim (ohio-exemption-pause).", "unknown": "Net fiscal result of any named project; whether a named project complied with or received an exemption.", "counterevidence": [], "verdict": "Contradicted", "confidence": { "level": "medium", "basis": "Gov. record; Institution" }, "sources": [ { "title": "Ohio data-center tax-exemption statute", "publisher": "Ohio Legislative Service Commission / Ohio Revised Code", "class": "Gov. record", "published": "2025-09-30", "retrieved": "2026-09-12", "url": "https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-122.175", "locator": "https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-122.175", "supports": "The statute authorizes a complete or partial equipment sales-and-use-tax exemption for qualifying projects. It does not erase payroll withholding, all real-property taxes, local charges or negotiated payments, and it does not repeal existing agreements." } ], "last_checked": "2026-09-12", "next_check": { "trigger": "None recorded", "date": null }, "history": [ { "date": "2026-09-12", "kind": "verdict-changed", "from": "Partially supported", "to": "Contradicted", "reason": "The statute authorizes a complete or partial equipment sales-and-use-tax exemption; it does not establish that a qualifying project pays no taxes.", "by": "Software-assisted second check" } ], "entity_ids": [], "href": "/claims/ohio-data-centers-no-taxes/" }, { "id": "meta-nuclear-direct", "record_id": "meta-new-albany-oh", "topic": "Power source", "state": "OH", "kind": "tested-reading", "claim": "Reading Meta's nuclear agreements as dedicated plants directly wired to the New Albany campus.", "claimant": { "name": null, "role": "common-reading", "said_on": null, "said_where": null }, "unit_scope": { "unit": "Power source", "scope": "Ohio", "period": "None recorded" }, "supports": "Meta says the agreements will deliver power to regional grids supporting its operations. New Albany says the campus draws from the regional grid. That is different from a dedicated wire or plant serving only the data center.", "unknown": "None recorded", "counterevidence": [], "verdict": "Contradicted", "confidence": { "level": "medium", "basis": "Company; Gov. record" }, "sources": [ { "title": "Meta nuclear-energy announcement", "publisher": "Meta", "class": "Company", "published": "2026-01", "retrieved": "2026-09-12", "url": "https://about.fb.com/news/2026/01/meta-nuclear-energy-projects-power-american-ai-leadership/", "locator": "https://about.fb.com/news/2026/01/meta-nuclear-energy-projects-power-american-ai-leadership/", "supports": "Meta announced nuclear-energy projects as company plans, not a proven direct supply relationship for a named Ohio campus." }, { "title": "City of New Albany statement", "publisher": "City of New Albany", "class": "Gov. record", "published": "2026-01", "retrieved": "2026-09-12", "url": "https://newalbanyohio.org/news/2026/01/statement-regarding-metas-nuclear-energy-projects/", "locator": "https://newalbanyohio.org/news/2026/01/statement-regarding-metas-nuclear-energy-projects/", "supports": "Municipal statement about Meta's announcement; not independent proof of a completed nuclear-to-campus power contract." } ], "last_checked": "2026-09-12", "next_check": { "trigger": "None recorded", "date": null }, "history": [], "entity_ids": [ "meta-new-albany-oh" ], "href": "/claims/meta-nuclear-direct/" }, { "id": "microsoft-jobs-now", "record_id": "microsoft-new-albany-oh", "topic": "Jobs / timing", "state": "OH", "kind": "tested-reading", "claim": "Treating Microsoft's roughly 50 operating employees per facility as current observed employment across three sites.", "claimant": { "name": null, "role": "common-reading", "said_on": null, "said_where": null }, "unit_scope": { "unit": "Jobs / timing", "scope": "Ohio", "period": "None recorded" }, "supports": "Microsoft projects about 50 employees per facility once operational and says three facilities are to be operational by the end of 2029. Current construction activity and modeled jobs are not observed permanent operating headcount.", "unknown": "None recorded", "counterevidence": [], "verdict": "Not yet due", "confidence": { "level": "medium", "basis": "Company; Company" }, "sources": [ { "title": "Microsoft Licking County impact brief", "publisher": "", "class": "Company", "published": "", "retrieved": "2026-09-11", "url": "https://local.microsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Economic-Impact_LickingCountyOH_FY26Q4.pdf", "locator": "https://local.microsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Economic-Impact_LickingCountyOH_FY26Q4.pdf", "supports": "" }, { "title": "Microsoft Heath construction update", "publisher": "", "class": "Company", "published": "", "retrieved": "2026-09-11", "url": "https://local.microsoft.com/blog/heath-datacenter-construction-updates/", "locator": "https://local.microsoft.com/blog/heath-datacenter-construction-updates/", "supports": "" } ], "last_checked": "2026-09-11", "next_check": { "trigger": "None recorded", "date": null }, "history": [], "entity_ids": [ "microsoft-new-albany-oh", "microsoft-heath-oh", "microsoft-hebron-oh" ], "href": "/claims/microsoft-jobs-now/" }, { "id": "ohio-water-permit", "record_id": null, "topic": "Water / permits", "state": "OH", "kind": "tested-reading", "claim": "Treating Ohio EPA's draft general permit as final blanket permission or proof of actual discharge.", "claimant": { "name": null, "role": "common-reading", "said_on": null, "said_where": null }, "unit_scope": { "unit": "Water / permits", "scope": "Ohio", "period": "None recorded" }, "supports": "Ohio EPA's Community Notice dated 21 July 2026 states that draft permit OHD000001 will not be finalized and that individual NPDES permitting remains the appropriate path. The official notice was retrieved and preserved on 12 September; a later live recheck was unavailable. The abandoned draft was never blanket permission, and an individual permit is still permission—not proof of actual discharge or site compliance.", "unknown": "Individual permits for named data-center outfalls were not inventoried. An individual NPDES permit is permission, not measured discharge or proof of compliance.", "counterevidence": [], "verdict": "Contradicted", "confidence": { "level": "medium", "basis": "Preserved Ohio EPA notice; government corroboration; newspaper republication" }, "sources": [ { "title": "Ohio EPA draft OHD000001", "publisher": "Ohio EPA", "class": "Gov. record", "published": "", "retrieved": "2026-09-12", "url": "https://dam.assets.ohio.gov/image/upload/epa.ohio.gov/Portals/35/permits/Data_Centers/OHD000001_Draft.pdf", "locator": "https://dam.assets.ohio.gov/image/upload/epa.ohio.gov/Portals/35/permits/Data_Centers/OHD000001_Draft.pdf", "supports": "Draft OHD000001 was never blanket permission." }, { "title": "Ohio EPA Community Notice: proposed data-center general permit will not be finalized", "publisher": "Ohio EPA", "class": "Gov. record", "published": "2026-07-21", "retrieved": "2026-09-12", "url": "https://epa.ohio.gov/divisions-and-offices/surface-water/permitting/npdes-general-permits", "locator": "Recent Activities → Ohio EPA Will NOT Finalize Proposed Data Center General Permit → Community Notice (July 21, 2026)", "supports": "Official agency notice that the draft general permit will not be finalized and individual NPDES permitting remains the appropriate path. The preserved official page was reviewed; a later live recheck returned unavailable." }, { "title": "Ohio EPA notice republished by The Clermont Sun (July 21, 2026)", "publisher": "The Clermont Sun (republication of Ohio EPA notice)", "class": "Institution", "published": "2026-07-22", "retrieved": "2026-09-11", "url": "https://www.clermontsun.com/2026/07/22/ohio-epa-will-not-finalize-proposed-data-center-general-permit", "locator": "https://www.clermontsun.com/2026/07/22/ohio-epa-will-not-finalize-proposed-data-center-general-permit", "supports": "Newspaper republication of the agency notice. This is not the agency record itself." }, { "title": "Rep. 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A permit is not measured discharge.", "reason": "Correction chronology uses the recorded date, not the 21 July agency-event date.", "evidence_url": "https://www.clermontsun.com/2026/07/22/ohio-epa-will-not-finalize-proposed-data-center-general-permit", "by": "DataCenterData review" }, { "date": "2026-09-12", "kind": "locator-changed", "from": "The direct Ohio EPA decision notice had not been retrieved.", "to": "The preserved official Ohio EPA Community Notice is cited with its dated heading and exact page location.", "reason": "Primary-record follow-up recovered the agency's own notice, and the second review re-read it; a later live recheck was unavailable and is not treated as a retraction.", "evidence_url": "https://epa.ohio.gov/divisions-and-offices/surface-water/permitting/npdes-general-permits", "by": "Software-assisted second check" } ], "entity_ids": [], "href": "/claims/ohio-water-permit/", "review_status": "second_review_complete", "review_note": "Software-assisted second check; every cited source was re-read by a reviewer who did not author the record." }, { "id": "new-albany-water-capacity", "record_id": null, "topic": "Water / capacity", "state": "OH", "kind": "tested-reading", "claim": "Treating New Albany's no-additional-capacity statement as proof that facility-level water impact is negligible.", "claimant": { "name": null, "role": "common-reading", "said_on": null, "said_where": null }, "unit_scope": { "unit": "Water / capacity", "scope": "Ohio", "period": "None recorded" }, "supports": "The city says it has not needed additional water capacity because of data centers. That city page still does not provide facility-level withdrawals. 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. That is not facility-level metered withdrawal, consumption, discharge or peak-day demand." } ], "last_checked": "2026-09-12", "next_check": { "trigger": "None recorded", "date": null }, "history": [], "entity_ids": [], "href": "/claims/new-albany-water-capacity/", "related_pages": [ { "title": "DataCenterData water field definitions", "url": "/water/" } ] }, { "id": "millersport-rate-impact", "record_id": "vantage-oh2-millersport", "topic": "Power / developer claim", "state": "OH", "kind": "tested-reading", "claim": "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.", "claimant": { "name": "Vantage", "role": "company", "said_on": null, "said_where": { "title": "Vantage Millersport campus FAQ", "url": "https://vantagemillersportcampus.com/faq/", "locator": "FAQ page" } }, "unit_scope": { "unit": "Power / developer claim", "scope": "Ohio", "period": "None recorded" }, "supports": "Vantage says the proposed Fairfield Energy Center would power its adjacent campus without connecting to the local or regional grid. A preserved OPSB summary describes a proposed 1,300 MW gas facility with up to 1,000 MW of battery storage; the developer instead reports up to 1,350 MW net generation and approximately 1,040 MW storage. Those figures are not data-center IT capacity. No certificate or hearing outcome has been verified; the evidentiary hearing is noticed for 17 September 2026. The plans cannot establish future retail-bill effects as an observed outcome.", "unknown": "The underlying OPSB application, hearing outcome, certificate status, and future effect on retail bills.", "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. Not an observed or regulatory finding." }, { "title": "Fairfield Energy Center major-utility-facility page (OPSB case 26-0160-EL-BGN)", "publisher": "Fairfield Energy", "class": "Institution", "published": "", "retrieved": "2026-09-17", "url": "https://fairfieldenergycenter.com/home/utility-facility", "locator": "https://fairfieldenergycenter.com/home/utility-facility", "supports": "Developer-reported pending OPSB application. Generation and storage figures are not data-center IT capacity and are not a certificate or construction authorization." } ], "last_checked": "2026-09-17", "next_check": { "trigger": "Official OPSB docket 26-0160-EL-BGN after the 17 September 2026 hearing", "date": "2026-09-17" }, "history": [ { "date": "2026-09-12", "kind": "locator-changed", "from": "Only company descriptions of the proposed adjacent power facility were cited.", "to": "The preserved official OPSB case summary is cited separately from the developer's differing generation and storage figures.", "reason": "Primary-record follow-up confirmed the proposal and hearing date while preserving the unresolved MW discrepancy and outcome hold.", "evidence_url": "https://fairfieldenergycenter.com/home/utility-facility", "by": "Software-assisted second check" }, { "date": "2026-09-17", "kind": "locator-changed", "from": "The source link used an OPSB case-summary URL that now returns 404.", "to": "The working source link now opens Fairfield Energy's live project page, which identifies OPSB case 26-0160-EL-BGN.", "reason": "The historical OPSB summary is described as preserved evidence rather than presented as a working page; the official case-summary URL returns 404 and the Docketing Information System rejected a direct case request during this check.", "evidence_url": "https://fairfieldenergycenter.com/home/utility-facility", "by": "Editorial classification update" } ], "entity_ids": [ "vantage-oh2-millersport" ], "href": "/claims/millersport-rate-impact/", "review_status": "second_review_complete", "review_note": "Software-assisted second check; every cited source was re-read by a reviewer who did not author the record." }, { "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": "Contradicted", "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. 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