Ohio Data Center Intelligence

Mapped Ohio data center sites, with their power, water and risk

One app for every Ohio county: data center sites, power, grid and FEMA risk, with hearing alerts and an API. 91 data center buildings are mapped in 12 of its 88 counties, and businesses pay 11.58¢ per kWh for power, 13% below the US average.

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Where are Ohio's data centers?

91 mapped buildings sit in 12 of Ohio's 88 counties. Franklin County has the most: 33.

Which risks do the counties with data centers face?

Tornadoes are the most common risk: 6 of the 12 counties with mapped data centers rate high for them.

Bars: counties with mapped data centers that rate Relatively high or Very high . Tap one to show it on the map.

All 88 counties as a table

County facts

What will a Ohio site pay for power, and how fast is demand growing?

Business power in Ohio costs 11.58¢ per kWh, 13% below the US, and demand grew 25.5% since 2019.

What do businesses pay for power?

11.58¢ per kWh in 2025, 13% below the US average of 13.37¢.

Businesses23rd cheapest of 51
Ohio
11.58¢
US
13.37¢

How fast is business power demand growing?

Business power use in Ohio grew 25.5% since 2019, more than twice the US rate (+10.5%).

What makes Ohio's power?

145.3 TWh generated in 2025: natural gas 54%, coal 25%, nuclear 12%.

Natural gas54%
Coal25%
Nuclear12%
Solar5.5%
Wind2.0%

Under 1% each: petroleum, other gases, hydro, wood, other biomass, other (eia's catch-all).

How much new power is proposed?

4,886 MW of new plants are proposed for 2026–2030, 15% of today's 31,730 MW: solar 67%, natural gas 18%, wind 9%, other 5%.

Solar3,260 MW
Natural gas900 MW
Wind437 MW
Other (EIA's catch-all)266 MW
Hydro20 MW
Other biomass3 MW

Which grid would a Ohio site join, and what are its water and hazard risks?

PJM serves all of Ohio's power sales; inland flooding and tornadoes cost it most.

Which grid serves Ohio?

PJM serves all of Ohio's retail power sales.

PJMAll

Share of 2025 retail sales, by each utility's balancing authority .

How much water do Ohio's power plants use?

Ohio's power plants took in 847 billion gallons of water in 2024 to cool and returned about 95%; 37.7 billion gallons were used up .

Returned 95.5%Used up 4.5%

Which hazards cost Ohio most?

Inland flooding and tornadoes are Ohio's biggest risks: each rates relatively high against other states .

Inland floodingRelatively high
TornadoRelatively high
Heat waveRelatively moderate
DroughtRelatively low
EarthquakeRelatively low
Coastal floodingVery low
HurricaneVery low
WildfireVery low

Which AI campuses are being built in Ohio, and how big will they be?

Ohio has 7 AI campuses on the list; 2 are being built, 636 MW planned in all. The biggest, Meta Bowling Green, is planned at 422 MW , full size by Jan 2028.

Meta Bowling GreenWood County
422 MWexpected first online Feb 2027 · full size Jan 2028
OpenAI Stargate LordstownTrumbull County
214 MWexpected first online Mar 2027 · full size Mar 2027

Bars: IT power expected at full size . Dates are Epoch AI's own estimates .

Other AI campuses in Ohio: AWS New Albany, Google Columbus, Google Lancaster, Google New Albany, Meta Prometheus.

Campuses without a county on record: AWS New Albany, Google New Albany, Meta Prometheus. They are left off the county map.

Who uses it, and what do they see first?

Lawyers, brokers, site teams, utilities, insurers and investors each start from their own view of Ohio's 88 counties.

Land-use and energy lawyers

Follow counties with data centers, their hearings and FEMA risk.

Franklin County33 mapped · risk relatively high
Licking County30 mapped · risk relatively low
Union County9 mapped · risk very low

12counties with data centers to follow, each with its planning and zoning agendas

Land and industrial brokers

Rank counties by mapped data center buildings, with the power price behind them.

Franklin County33
Licking County30
Union County9
Cuyahoga County5
Hamilton County3

33mapped buildings in Franklin County, the most in Ohio

Site selection teams

Shortlist counties by mapped sites, power and risk on one map.

12of 88 counties have mapped data centers

Utilities and power buyers

Follow prices, demand and the grid behind each site. Bars: business power sales since 2019.

Ohio+25.5%
US+10.5%

+25.5%business power sales since 2019, US +10.5%

Insurers and lenders

Bars: how many of the counties with data centers rate high for each hazard.

Tornado6 of 12
Inland flooding4 of 12
Heat wave3 of 12
Drought0 of 12

6of 12 counties with mapped data centers rate high for at least one

Investors and analysts

Track AI campuses being built, their owners and users. Bars: MW expected at full size.

Meta Bowling Green422 MW
OpenAI Stargate Lordstown214 MW

636MW planned at 2 AI campuses being built

What's inside Ohio Data Center Intelligence?

One app for all 88 Ohio counties, plus hearing alerts and an API. Every screen below is filled with Ohio's real data.

The Intelligence app

Every county's sites, power, water and risk on one screen, with your watchlist.

app.camsahead.com/intelligence/ohio

OverviewMapSitesAI campusesProjectsPowerWaterRiskHearingsAlertsAPI

91mapped buildings

7AI campuses

11.58¢business power, per kWh

+15.6%business demand, last 12 months

Watchlist	Mapped	Flood	Heat	Drought
Franklin County	33	high	high	low
Licking County	30	moderate	moderate	moderate
Union County	9	low	low	low
Cuyahoga County	5	high	high	not rated
Hamilton County	3	high	high	low

Hearings and filings

Follow counties and cases; get the agenda and the record when a hearing is posted.

Hearings · Ohio

Ohio · counties you follow Planning, zoning and utility agendas

Franklin County33 mapped data center buildingsAgenda alerts
Licking County30 mapped data center buildingsAgenda alerts
Union County9 mapped data center buildingsAgenda alerts
Cuyahoga County5 mapped data center buildingsAgenda alerts

Alerts

New projects, stage changes, hearings and data updates for what you follow, by email or in the app.

Alerts · Ohio

Power demandBusiness power sales +15.6% on the year before: 63.2 TWhEIA-861M, 2025-09 to 2026-08
Site riskFranklin County (33 mapped buildings) rates Relatively high for inland floodingFEMA National Risk Index
AI campus being builtMeta Bowling Green: 422 MW of IT power expected · first online Feb 2027 · full size Jan 2028Epoch AI

Data API

County, power, risk and project data as JSON for your own tools.

api.camsahead.com

GET /v1/counties/39049

{
  "fips": "39049",
  "name": "Franklin County",
  "state": "OH",
  "pop2025": 1361536,
  "pop_change_2020_pct": 2.9,
  "density_per_sqmi": 2557.3,
  "nri": {
    "risk_rating": "Relatively High",
    "ifld": {
      "rating": "Relatively High",
      "score": 98.8

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    },
    "hwav": {
      "rating": "Relatively High",
      "score": 98.9
    },
    "drgt": {
      "rating": "Relatively Low",
      "score": 57.6
    }
  },
  "grid": {
    "rtos": [
      "PJM"
    ],
    "utilities_n": 9
  },
  "state_power": {
    "commercial_cents_kwh": 11.58,
    "us_commercial_cents_kwh": 13.37,
    "as_of": "2025"
  }
}

What does it cost?

Ohio Data Center Intelligence is $390 a month for 3 seats.

Ohio Data Center Intelligence$390 a month

The Intelligence app: every county's sites, power, water and risk
Alerts on new projects, filings and hearings
Reports as web page, PDF and CSV
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Data APIFrom $999 a month

County, power, risk and project data as JSON
Keys for your own tools and models

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Public bodies$4,680 a year

Counties, cities, utilities and co-ops
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What stays open? The map, the county pages and every data center page stay open to everyone.

Sources and updates

How this page was made: CamsAhead writes each page type once, then fills it with this place's data from the sources below.

OpenStreetMap contributors: data center buildings, as of November 6, 2026; Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0, free copy on request.
Epoch AI: "AI data centers", CC BY 4.0, retrieved November 7, 2026; changes noted.
U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA): Form EIA-861 (released Oct 2026) and Form EIA-861 2025 detailed data (released Oct 2026): business power prices and sales by state, grid operators and utilities by county; retrieved October 31, 2026.
U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA): Forms EIA-923/906/920 (released Sep 2026): power generated by source, 2025; retrieved October 31, 2026.
U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA): Form EIA-860 (released Sep 2026): power plants proposed for 2026 to 2030; retrieved October 31, 2026.
U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA): Form EIA-860 (released Sep 2026): power plant capacity by state, 2025; retrieved October 31, 2026.
U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA): thermoelectric cooling water data 2024, Forms EIA-860 and EIA-923 (retrieved Oct 2026): power plant cooling water by state.
FEMA: National Risk Index v1.20 (December 2025), NRI_Table_Counties and NRI_Table_States: natural hazard ratings by county and expected annual loss by state; retrieved October 31, 2026. This product uses the Federal Emergency Management Agency's OpenFEMA API, but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from the Agency's website(s).
U.S. Census Bureau: US Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 county population estimates (co-est2025-alldata.csv): people by county.

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