Hope and concern swirl for Ohioans around ‘world’s largest datacenter’
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OpenAI, Nvidia, and Japanese investors are building a massive AI datacenter in Piketon, Ohio, with a planned $500 billion investment to create 8GW (gigawatts, a unit of electrical power) of computing capacity. The project is expected to create thousands of jobs, but environmental groups have expressed concerns about the development.
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Original source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/26/ohio-datacenter-reaction
First tracked: August 26, 2026 at 08:01 PM
Classified by LLM (prompt v3) · confidence: 75%