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PORTS-Pike Technology Campus
SB Energy's PORTS Pike Technology Campus in Pike County is being built as an AI compute campus with NVIDIA guaranteeing exclusive hosting of NVIDIA AI compute, and OpenAI has joined the project, which is reported to require more power than all homes in Ohio. It is waiting on permits, as reported September 2, 2026.
How much power it needs, how much water it would use and who would use it have not been disclosed.
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What is known
Each figure as its source gave it. The number in brackets is its place in the source list.
- Land
- Not disclosed
- Power it would draw
- Not disclosed
- Reported by others: 10 GW (Washington Examiner, enr.com); 9.2 GW (enr.com), and 3 more under Comparisons. Their figure, not the record's.
- Water
- Not disclosed
- Who leads it
- SB Energy
- as stated by the source
- Who would use it
- Not disclosed
- Jobs once it runs
- Not disclosed
- Tax each year
- Not disclosed
Every field, with who said it and when (Researcher view)
Impact figures
| Field | Value | Who says so | Source | Last verified |
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| How much power it needs | Not disclosed | |||
| How much water it would use | Not disclosed | |||
| How loud it would be | Not disclosed | |||
| Jobs once it runs | Not disclosed | |||
| Tax it would pay each year | Not disclosed |
The record's fields
| Field | Value | Who says so | Source | Last verified |
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| Who is building it | SB Energy | as stated by the source | September 17, 2026 | |
| Who is constructing it | Not disclosed | |||
| How much land | Not disclosed | |||
| Where its power comes from | Not disclosed | |||
| Grid connection | Not disclosed | |||
| How it is cooled | Not disclosed |
How much power it needs, also reported: 10 GW, 2026 (Washington Examiner: Plans to eventually expand power capacity to 10 gigawatts, enr.com: PORTS Pike Technology Campus planned 10 gigawatt data center campus); 9.2 GW, 2026 (enr.com: PORTS Pike power generation capacity about 9.2 gigawatts from natural gas); 8 GW, 2026 (Washington Examiner: Data center is planned to provide at least 8 gigawatts or 8 billion watts of electrical power); 4.25 GW, 2026 (enr.com: Initial deployment expected to provide 4.25 gigawatts of AI factory capacity); 1.56 GW, 2026 (Washington Examiner: Largest operating U.S. data center by power capacity is SpaceXAI Colossus 2 in Tennessee at 1.563 gigawatts) .
Tax it would pay each year, also reported: 2,500,000,000 dollars, 2024 (TiffinOhio.net: Between 2017 and 2024, Ohio provided about $2.5 billion in tax incentives to attract data center development.); 6,300,000 dollars, 2024 (TiffinOhio.net: American Electric Power Service Corporation received $6.3 million in data center tax breaks from the state as of September 2024.) .
The developer's figure is what the company said; what a permit allows is the ceiling a permit sets; measured means observed. Water is in gallons a day or a year, whichever the source stated; a tax claim given as a range shows both ends, each linked to the source that gave it.
Still not public, and where it would show up
The record adds each the day a source gives it. Why these documents.
- Water useA state water right filing or a water supply agreement.
- Who would use itA lease announcement or a tenant named in a filing.
- Power the campus would drawA utility or public service commission docket, an interconnection filing, or an air permit for an on site plant.
- Jobs and taxAn incentive agreement, a county's economic development filing or a fiscal note.
What was decided
Acts of Pike County and the cities in it about data centers, on the record with their source. A rule about the area is not a decision about this record.
| Date | Who | Decision | Source |
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| Pike County | Ohio Power Siting Board public hearing scheduled for Baku Gavin Transmission Line project on October 27, 2026 at 6 p.m. at Jackson High School Auditorium. | yahoo.com |
What happened
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PORTS-Pike Technology Campus is a 10 GW data center with co located gas generator [2]
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Construction on each building expected to take between 14 to 16 months [12]
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Prime hopes to begin work on the project sometime in early 2027 [12]
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· Status: permitting (source date; the content gives no date of its own)
Prime Data Centers developer detailed Starpointe data center proposal on September 2, 2026 [12]
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PORTS Pike data center campus located on site of former Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant uranium enrichment facility near Columbus, Ohio [4]
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SB Energy will develop, own and operate data center campus including power generation [4]
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· Status: approved (source date; the content gives no date of its own)
Bechtel and Kiewit Corp tapped to provide engineering, procurement, construction and other services for PORTS Pike [4]
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Project is being built at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, a former uranium enrichment facility [13]
2 earlier entries
The full PORTS-Pike Technology Campus timeline, in order
22 corrections to this record
Every correction, with its reason
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Every correction on the record is on the corrections page.
What was said
Derek Merrin reported capital gains of at least $1,200 from Nvidia stock and options in a financial disclosure covering 2025 through mid-2026.
Kate Nolan Bryden, Prime Senior Vice President of Development and project lead, testified that the facility will use advanced closed loop cooling systems
Every statement about data centers in Ohio, by speaker
4 more statements on this page
Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the data center will be bigger than any facility ever built in world history
OpenAI said this gives a site that once supported American industry and national security a new role building infrastructure for the Intelligence Era
Merrin voted in 2017 for Ohio's 2018-19 budget which included tax breaks for data centers.
The site
Where in Pike County is not in the public record. The pin marks the county seat, not a building, and the outline is the county.
Tap a pin for the data center, the parcel for its record
- This record: Proposed, ringed
- data center
- Dashed edge: the exact site is not in the public record
- Smaller pins: 29 other published records in Ohio
Details
- this record's location, ringed
- parcel outline, from the county parcel record
- city limits, U.S. Census Bureau, on a town level record
- county boundary
The other pins are the published projects in the same state, each in its stage color. The imagery beneath is the USGS national orthoimagery, public domain, shown so the land around the site can be read.
- Where
- Pike County, Ohio
- How exactly it is located
- County level, the county seat
- The parcel
- No parcel outline in the public record
- Nearest homes
- Not computed for a record placed at a place center
- Nearest records
- Nearest records are not computed for a record placed at a county seat.
Comparisons
2 metrics with more than one figure
Capacity at full buildout
5 figures, 2 sourcesNot disclosedNot disclosed
10 GWReported
9.2 GWReported
8 GWReported
4.25 GWReported
1.56 GWReported
Show each source's words
- 10 GW, Washington Examiner: Plans to eventually expand power capacity to 10 gigawatts
- 10 GW, enr.com: PORTS Pike Technology Campus planned 10 gigawatt data center campus
- 9.2 GW, enr.com: PORTS Pike power generation capacity about 9.2 gigawatts from natural gas
- 8 GW, Washington Examiner: Data center is planned to provide at least 8 gigawatts or 8 billion watts of electrical power
- 4.25 GW, enr.com: Initial deployment expected to provide 4.25 gigawatts of AI factory capacity
- 1.56 GW, Washington Examiner: Largest operating U.S. data center by power capacity is SpaceXAI Colossus 2 in Tennessee at 1.563 gigawatts
Tax each year
2 figures, 1 sourceNot disclosedNot disclosed
2,500,000,000 dollarsReported
6,300,000 dollarsReported
Show each source's words
- 2,500,000,000 dollars, TiffinOhio.net: Between 2017 and 2024, Ohio provided about $2.5 billion in tax incentives to attract data center development.
- 6,300,000 dollars, TiffinOhio.net: American Electric Power Service Corporation received $6.3 million in data center tax breaks from the state as of September 2024.
Questions about this project
7 questions answered from the record
How big is PORTS-Pike Technology Campus?
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Not disclosed. No source on file gives its capacity, its acreage or a count of buildings. What the record holds instead is under Disclosed.
Who is building PORTS-Pike Technology Campus?
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SB Energy is the developer. No construction contractor is named on the record yet.
Who will use PORTS-Pike Technology Campus?
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Not disclosed. No source on file names a tenant, says whether the site is single or multi tenant, or states what it is for. The record keeps the use as not disclosed until one does; see Who it serves.
How much power and water does PORTS-Pike Technology Campus say it needs?
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Power: not disclosed by any source on file. Water: not disclosed by any source on file.
Where does PORTS-Pike Technology Campus stand today?
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It is waiting on permits, as reported September 2, 2026. The newest entry, reported September 7, 2026: PORTS-Pike Technology Campus is a 10 GW data center with co located gas generator [2].
What has Pike County decided about it?
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Pike County: Ohio Power Siting Board public hearing scheduled for Baku Gavin Transmission Line project on October 27, 2026 at 6 p.m. at Jackson High School Auditorium. (reported September 14, 2026, source). 1 event is on the county's rows; a rule about the area is not a decision about this record.
What is still unknown about PORTS-Pike Technology Campus?
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Not disclosed by any source on file: how much power it needs, how much water it would use, how loud it would be, jobs once it runs, tax it would pay each year, who is constructing it, how much land, where its power comes from, grid connection, how it is cooled. No missing primary document is listed for this record yet; What the record lacks is where one appears when a person names it.
Sources
Reporting
- Nvidia Backs OpenAI’s Ohio Data Center Buildout With $105B Guarantee, Data Center Knowledge, August 19, 2026, trade press
- Ohio, PJM to Use State Agreement Approach for 10 GW Data Center, Gas Plant - RTO Insider, RTO Insider, September 7, 2026, trade press
- OpenAI joins PORTS-Pike project - OpenAI, OpenAI, August 17, 2026, local outlet
- NVIDIA Partners With SB Energy on 10 GW AI Data Center Complex in Ohio - enr.com, enr.com, August 19, 2026, local outlet
- Data center that could require more power than all of the homes in Ohio being built in Pike County - wlwt.com, wlwt.com, August 26, 2026, local outlet
- OpenAI to build world's biggest AI data center in Ohio. What we know - Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati Enquirer, August 24, 2026, local outlet
- OpenAI joins world’s largest data center project, brings 35,000 construction jobs to Ohio - NBC4 WCMH-TV, NBC4 WCMH-TV, August 19, 2026, local outlet
- AI’s natural gas addiction could be deadly for Ohio’s communities - Ohio Capital Journal, Ohio Capital Journal, September 1, 2026, local outlet
- NVIDIA Guarantees SB Energy’s PORTS-Pike Technology Campus in Ohio to Exclusively Host NVIDIA AI Compute - NVIDIA Newsroom, NVIDIA Newsroom, August 17, 2026, local outlet
- OpenAI Locks In Lease for Huge Data Center in Ohio With Backing From Nvidia - WSJ, WSJ, August 17, 2026, local outlet
- OpenAI announces massive data center in Ohio with Nvidia guarantee - Axios, Axios, August 17, 2026, local outlet
- Developer details expansive Starpointe data center proposal - Observer Reporter, Observer-Reporter, September 2, 2026, local outlet
1 more source
- OpenAI and Nvidia join forces for new enormous Ohio data center - Washington Examiner, Washington Examiner, August 17, 2026, local outlet
13 sources on file.
Cite this record
Data Center Record, "PORTS-Pike Technology Campus", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/ports-pike-technology-campus-oh, last verified September 17, 2026.
Cite this page
Data Center Record, "PORTS-Pike Technology Campus", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/ports-pike-technology-campus-oh. Data: Data Center Record, datacenterrecord.org, CC BY 4.0.
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For researchers
- Slug
- ports-pike-technology-campus-oh
- Status value
- permitting
- Stage
- Proposed
- Tier
- skeleton
- Tags
- skeleton
- Place id
- us/oh/pike-county
- Coordinates
- 39.1261, -82.9831
- Location precision
- county
- Location source
- County seat (Waverly), Wikidata, placed at county level
- Coordinate source
- wikidata county seat
- Location source number
- Not disclosed
- Location last verified
- September 16, 2026
- EPA registry id
- Not disclosed
- Use type values
- not_disclosed
- Tenancy value
- not_disclosed
- Cooling type value
- not_disclosed
- Capacity basis
- not_disclosed
- Water basis
- not_disclosed, gallons_per_day
- Acreage basis
- Not disclosed
- Interconnection value
- not_disclosed
- Capacity, if disclosed
- Not disclosed
- Rating of the county's rows
- Not disclosed
- Published
- 2026-09-04
- Last verified
- 2026-09-17