Atlas / Ohio
Ohio
OH · instruments, facilities, claims and sources, joinedInstruments
Statutes, tariffs, orders, dockets, ordinancesStarts here in this viewEvery statute, tariff, order and docket governing large loads in this state, with the collected text under each one.The rules a project here runs into: what triggers them, what they cost you to leave, what they require up front.The whole regulatory stack in this state, kind by kind.The actual laws, tariffs and orders behind any story about data centers in this state.The regime a project here is underwritten against, instrument by instrument.
| Instrument | Record | Utility or agency | Threshold MW | Key terms as collected | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio Manufacturers' Association Energy Group Appeal of AEP Ohio Data Center Tariff Order (Supreme Court of Ohio Case No. 2025-1458) oh-sct-2025-1458-omaeg-appeal | docket pending two-reviewer | AEP Ohio (Ohio Power Company), intervening appellee | $99 Ohio pass | $99 Ohio pass | 8 |
| AEP Ohio Data Center Tariff (Schedule DCT), PUCO Opinion and Order Approving Settlement oh-puco-24508-el-ata-aep-datacenter-tariff-order | order approved two-reviewer | AEP Ohio (Ohio Power Company) | $99 Ohio pass | $99 Ohio pass | 35 |
| AEP Ohio Distribution Rate Case, New Minimum Monthly Customer Charge for Data Centers (PUCO Case No. 25-392-EL-AIR) oh-puco-25392-el-air-aep-ratecase-dc-charge | order approved single-reviewer | AEP Ohio (Ohio Power Company) | $99 Ohio pass | $99 Ohio pass | 3 |
| Substitute House Bill 15 (136th General Assembly), Competitive Retail Electric Service Law Overhaul oh-hb15-136ga-electric-service-law-overhaul | statute enacted two-reviewer | Ohio General Assembly; Public Utilities Commission of Ohio; Ohio Power Siting Board (implementing agencies) | $99 Ohio pass | $99 Ohio pass | 5 |
| Tax Exemption for Sale, Storage, Use, or Other Consumption of Computer Data Center Equipment (Ohio Rev. Code § 122.175) oh-orc-122175-data-center-sales-tax-exemption | statute enacted two-reviewer | Ohio Tax Credit Authority (within the Ohio Department of Development); Ohio Department of Taxation | $99 Ohio pass | $99 Ohio pass | 15 |
| AES Ohio Proposed Data Center Tariff Classes (within Three-Year Rate Plan, PUCO Case No. 25-0958-EL-AIR) oh-puco-25-0958-el-air-aes-datacenter-tariff | tariff pending single-reviewer | AES Ohio (formerly Dayton Power & Light) | $99 Ohio pass | $99 Ohio pass | 7 |
Provenance key. two-reviewer a second reviewer checked the record against primary sources with no open disagreement. single-reviewer one careful reviewer built it from primary sources and no second reviewer has re-read it yet. disputed two admissible sources disagree and a re-read did not settle it.
Facilities
9 recordsStarts here in this viewThe projects on the ground here, and which instruments each one is governed by.Who is already building in this state, at what size, and under which utility.The named large loads in this state, with owner, county and status on every row.The data centers themselves: who owns them, which county they sit in, and what was announced.Announced investment and requested megawatts per project, with the status of each one.
| Facility | County | Owner | Utility | Status | Announced investment | MW requested | Governed by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AWS (Amazon Web Services) New Albany Data Center Campus oh-fac-aws-new-albany | Licking County New Albany | Amazon.com, Inc. (Amazon Web Services, Inc.) Amazon.com, Inc. | operating two-reviewer | $6.2B | |||
| Google Lancaster Data Center (Fairfield County) oh-fac-google-lancaster | Fairfield County Lancaster | Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.) Alphabet Inc. | announced single-reviewer | ||||
| Google New Albany / Columbus Data Center Campuses oh-fac-google-new-albany-columbus | New Albany and Columbus | $99 Ohio pass | operating single-reviewer | $99 Ohio pass | $99 Ohio pass | ||
| Intel Ohio One (New Albany-area semiconductor fabs, Licking County) oh-fac-intel-ohio-one | Licking County New Albany (unincorporated Licking County site, near New Albany) | $99 Ohio pass | under-construction two-reviewer | $99 Ohio pass | $99 Ohio pass | ||
| Meta New Albany Data Center oh-fac-meta-new-albany | Franklin and Licking counties (per Meta's own materials, which describe the campus as spanning both) New Albany | $99 Ohio pass | operating single-reviewer | $99 Ohio pass | $99 Ohio pass | ||
| Microsoft Heath Data Center oh-fac-microsoft-heath | Licking County Heath | $99 Ohio pass | under-construction two-reviewer | $99 Ohio pass | $99 Ohio pass | ||
| Microsoft Hebron Data Center oh-fac-microsoft-hebron | Licking County Hebron (Village of Hebron) | $99 Ohio pass | under-construction two-reviewer | $99 Ohio pass | $99 Ohio pass | ||
| Microsoft New Albany Data Center oh-fac-microsoft-new-albany | Licking County New Albany | $99 Ohio pass | under-construction two-reviewer | $99 Ohio pass | $99 Ohio pass | ||
| QTS New Albany Data Center Campus oh-fac-qts-new-albany | New Albany | $99 Ohio pass | under-construction single-reviewer | $99 Ohio pass | $99 Ohio pass |
6 of 9 facility records name the instruments that govern them. The rest do not, and the table shows that rather than guessing.
Claims
29 recordsStarts here in this viewWhat parties asserted on the record here, quoted, with the claimant class named.What has been promised publicly in this state about jobs, tax and load.What intervenors and officials said in this state, in their own words.Who said what about data centers in this state, quoted exactly, with the source under each one.Promises made in this market, quoted. We hold what was promised, not what was delivered.
| Type | Claimant | Claim, verbatim |
|---|---|---|
| other | PUCO Chair Jenifer French government | Today's order represents a well-balanced package that safeguards non-data center customers on an industrial and residential level while establishing a dependable and reasonable environment for data centers to continue to thrive within Ohio.SourceSource row two-reviewer “COLUMBUS, OHIO (July 9, 2025) – The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) today issued an order directing AEP Ohio to file new tariffs applying to data centers. The Commission adopted a settlement agreement reached by AEP Ohio, PUCO staff, Ohio Consumers’ Counsel (OCC) and others.” Body, opening paragraph PUCO orders AEP Ohio to create data center specific tariff (press release) |
| other | AEP Ohio, via PUCO Case No. 24-508-EL-ATA docket filings, as characterized by Ohio Public Radio's Statehouse News Bureau utility | AEP Ohio said in February [2026] the newly established financial obligations are working by weeding out "uncommitted data center load," according to PUCO documents.SourceSource row two-reviewer “AEP Ohio said in February the newly established financial obligations are working by weeding out “uncommitted data center load,” according to PUCO documents.” Paragraph beginning “AEP Ohio said in February” Statehouse News Bureau (Ohio Public Radio/TV), “Ohio House bill would extend data center tariff to rest of state” |
| other | Ohio Manufacturers' Association advocacy | $99 Ohio pass |
| other | AEP Ohio (AEP Ohio Ex. 3, McKenzie Supp. Test.), as recounted in OCC's Ohio Supreme Court merit brief utility | $99 Ohio pass |
| investment | Governor Mike DeWine government | $99 Ohio pass |
| tax_revenue | Good Jobs First (citing Signal Ohio investigative reporting) advocacy | $99 Ohio pass |
| rate_impact | AES Ohio utility | $99 Ohio pass |
| investment | Amazon (figures as published by the City of New Albany) developer | $99 Ohio pass |
| investment | AWS / City of New Albany (per Data Center Frontier's account of Cleveland.com and Columbus Dispatch reporting) developer | $99 Ohio pass |
| community_benefit | Ohio Lt. Governor Jim Tressel government | $99 Ohio pass |
| community_benefit | New Albany Mayor Sloan Spalding government | $99 Ohio pass |
| investment | Ohio Lt. Gov. Jon Husted government | $99 Ohio pass |
| other | Lancaster, Ohio Mayor David Scheffler government | $99 Ohio pass |
| investment | Meta Platforms, Inc. (company data-center page, datacenters.atmeta.com/ohio-new-albany/) developer | $99 Ohio pass |
| investment | Rachel Peterson, Director of Data Center Strategy and Development, Facebook (AP photo caption, reproduced by The American Prospect) developer | $99 Ohio pass |
| other | The American Prospect (Logan Chapman), March 5, 2026 press | $99 Ohio pass |
| other | The American Prospect (Logan Chapman), citing Data Centre Dynamics press | $99 Ohio pass |
| investment | QTS (company statement, quoted by WSYX/myfox28) developer | $99 Ohio pass |
| community_benefit | Sara Zeigler, New Albany Economic Development Manager government | $99 Ohio pass |
| community_benefit | Heath, Ohio Mayor Mark Johns (quoted by ENR, via a local TV station) government | $99 Ohio pass |
| other | Microsoft Corporation (local.microsoft.com Hebron datacenter construction-update blog) developer | $99 Ohio pass |
| other | Microsoft Corporation (local.microsoft.com Heath datacenter construction-updates blog) developer | $99 Ohio pass |
| other | Microsoft Corporation (local.microsoft.com New Albany datacenter construction-update blog) developer | $99 Ohio pass |
| other | Naga Chandrasekaran, EVP, Chief Global Operations Officer and GM of Intel Foundry Manufacturing (internal memo, quoted by ENR) developer | $99 Ohio pass |
| investment | Intel Corporation (annual report filed with the Ohio Dept. of Development, quoted/paraphrased by ENR) developer | $99 Ohio pass |
| tax_revenue | Zach Schiller, Policy Matters Ohio advocacy | $99 Ohio pass |
| tax_revenue | Ohio Tax Credit Authority (official meeting minutes, development.ohio.gov) government | $99 Ohio pass |
| tax_revenue | Ohio Department of Development (internal spreadsheet shared with Signal Ohio by two statehouse Democrats; reported by Signal Ohio) government | $99 Ohio pass |
| other | Data Center Coalition, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and other signatories to the rejected Oct. 10, 2024 stipulation (as characterized by EnergyChoiceMatters.com's account of PUCO's July 9, 2025 order) developer | $99 Ohio pass |
Sources
Ranked highest document type firstStarts here in this viewThe primary documents under this state, each with the pinpoint that makes it checkable.The documents behind every number on this page, if you want to read the filing yourself.The filings this state's records were built from, ranked highest document type first.Every document behind this page, with a page or paragraph pinpoint. These are open on every tier.The evidence file under this state, ranked by document type and review state.
111 source rows sit under this state. Every one carries an exact quote and a pinpoint. Twelve are shown here, ranked by document type and review status; the rest are on the record pages they belong to. Every source document and every pinpoint is open, on every tier.
- Ohio Revised Code § 122.175, Tax exemption for sale, storage, use, or other consumption of computer data center equipment statute two-reviewer
"Eligible computer data center" means a computer data center that satisfies all of the following requirements: (a) One or more taxpayers operating a computer data center business at the project site will, in the aggregate, make payments for a capital investment project of at least one hundred million dollars at the project site during one of the following cumulative periods: (i) For projects beginning in 2013, six consecutive calendar years; (ii) For projects beginning in 2014, four consecutive calendar years; (iii) For projects beginning in or after 2015, three consecutive calendar years. (b) One or more taxpayers operating a computer data center business at the project site will, in the aggregate, pay annual compensation that is subject to the withholding obligation imposed under section 5747.06 of the Revised Code of at least one million five hundred thousand dollars to employees employed at the project site for each year of the agreement beginning on or after the first day of the twenty-fifth month after the agreement was entered into under this section.
Division (A)(5)(a)-(b) (eligibility thresholds)
https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-122.175
Fetched directly via curl from Ohio's official codified-statute site (codes.ohio.gov), which loaded without any certificate issue (unlike legislature.ohio.gov, see the HB15 instrument's notes). Source of the recorded $100,000,000 capital-investment and $1,500,000 annual-payroll thresholds. - Ohio Revised Code § 122.175, Tax exemption for sale, storage, use, or other consumption of computer data center equipment statute two-reviewer
“(B) The tax credit authority may completely or partially exempt from the taxes levied under Chapters 5739. and 5741. of the Revised Code the sale, storage, use, or other consumption of computer data center equipment used or to be used at an eligible computer data center. Any such exemption shall extend to charges for the delivery, installation, or repair of the computer data center equipment subje”
Division (B)
https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-122.175
Confirms the approval mechanism is administered by the Ohio TAX CREDIT AUTHORITY, not a body called “CSA” (see instrument notes on that terminology question). NOTE: this quote is truncated mid-word (“subje”) exactly where this collector's extraction window ended; recorded verbatim as extracted rather than manually completing the word, per collection rules against silently correcting source text, the sentence continues “...subject to the exemption under this section” per the fuller passage quoted in the Division (A) source row above only insofar as that row's own text does not repeat it; a cleaner extraction was not re-run before file submission given time budget. - Ohio Revised Code § 122.175, Tax exemption for sale, storage, use, or other consumption of computer data center equipment statute two-reviewer
“Effective: September 30, 2025 Latest Legislation: House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly”
Page header, “Effective:” / “Latest Legislation:” fields
https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-122.175
Confirms the currently codified text was most recently amended by House Bill 96 (136th GA), effective September 30, 2025. - Ohio Revised Code § 122.175, Tax exemption for sale, storage, use, or other consumption of computer data center equipment statute two-reviewer
$99 Ohio pass quote, 94 characters as extracted. The document, the pinpoint and the review state are open below.
Page footer, “Available Versions of this Section” list
https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-122.175 - Sub. H.B. No. 15, 136th General Assembly (As Enrolled) statute two-reviewer
$99 Ohio pass quote, 233 characters as extracted. The document, the pinpoint and the review state are open below.
p.97, SECTION 3
https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/api/v2/general_assembly_136/legislation/hb15/05_EN/pdf/ - Merit Brief of Intervening Appellee, Office of the Ohio Consumers’ Counsel, Supreme Court of Ohio Case No. 2025-1458 docket two-reviewer
$99 Ohio pass quote, 420 characters as extracted. The document, the pinpoint and the review state are open below.
PDF p.18 (brief-internal p.9)
https://www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/pdf_viewer/pdf_viewer.aspx?pdf=1000491.pdf&subdirectory=2025-1458\DocketItems - Merit Brief of Appellant, The Ohio Manufacturers’ Association Energy Group, Supreme Court of Ohio Case No. 2025-1458 docket two-reviewer
$99 Ohio pass quote, 1,149 characters as extracted. The document, the pinpoint and the review state are open below.
PDF p.13 (brief-internal p.6)
https://www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/pdf_viewer/pdf_viewer.aspx?pdf=997940.pdf&subdirectory=2025-1458\DocketItems - Merit Brief of Intervening Appellee, Office of the Ohio Consumers’ Counsel, Supreme Court of Ohio Case No. 2025-1458 docket two-reviewer
$99 Ohio pass quote, 337 characters as extracted. The document, the pinpoint and the review state are open below.
PDF p.14 (brief-internal p.5), citing R. 5 at 4, AEP Ohio Ex. 2, Ali Dir. Test.
https://www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/pdf_viewer/pdf_viewer.aspx?pdf=1000491.pdf&subdirectory=2025-1458\DocketItems - Merit Brief of Appellant, The Ohio Manufacturers’ Association Energy Group, Supreme Court of Ohio Case No. 2025-1458 docket two-reviewer
$99 Ohio pass quote, 451 characters as extracted. The document, the pinpoint and the review state are open below.
PDF p.1 (caption block)
https://www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/pdf_viewer/pdf_viewer.aspx?pdf=997940.pdf&subdirectory=2025-1458\DocketItems - Merit Brief of Appellant, The Ohio Manufacturers’ Association Energy Group, Supreme Court of Ohio Case No. 2025-1458 docket two-reviewer
$99 Ohio pass quote, 253 characters as extracted. The document, the pinpoint and the review state are open below.
PDF p.16 (brief-internal p.9)
https://www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/pdf_viewer/pdf_viewer.aspx?pdf=997940.pdf&subdirectory=2025-1458\DocketItems - Merit Brief of Intervening Appellee, Office of the Ohio Consumers’ Counsel, Supreme Court of Ohio Case No. 2025-1458 docket two-reviewer
$99 Ohio pass quote, 507 characters as extracted. The document, the pinpoint and the review state are open below.
PDF p.19 (brief-internal p.10)
https://www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/pdf_viewer/pdf_viewer.aspx?pdf=1000491.pdf&subdirectory=2025-1458\DocketItems - PUCO orders AEP Ohio to create data center specific tariff (press release) government two-reviewer
$99 Ohio pass quote, 286 characters as extracted. The document, the pinpoint and the review state are open below.
Body, opening paragraph
https://puco.ohio.gov/news/puco-orders-aep-ohio-to-create-data-center-specific-tariff