Data centers in Licking County, Ohio

Licking County has 3 data centers on the record: 2 running and 1 proposed. No county rule about data centers is on the record for Licking County itself; 1 body inside it has a scorecard row. The latest decision on the record: Pataskala city council unanimously voted to block construction of a proposed 200 megawatt three building data center (Pataskala), September 23, 2026.

Updated September 23, 2026 · Every line below links to its source · How the record works

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The 3 data centers in Licking County

Newest activity first

Each row is one site with its stage, its latest dated entry and what its sources disclose. A figure no source gives reads Not disclosed.

Running Built from one source
Microsoft Heath datacenter
Heath, Licking County · Microsoft
No dated entry on the record yet.
Land
Not disclosed
Power
Not disclosed
Water
Not disclosed
Tenant
Not disclosed
Running Built from one source
Microsoft Hebron datacenter
Hebron, Licking County · Microsoft
No dated entry on the record yet.
Land
Not disclosed
Power
Not disclosed
Water
Not disclosed
Tenant
Not disclosed
Reported Built from one source
Pataskala data center proposal
Pataskala, Licking County
Latest, reported August 23, 2026: Aligned Data Centers expects to employ about 111 people long term thereportingproject.org local outlet
Land
Not disclosed
Power
Not disclosed
Water
Not disclosed
Tenant
Not disclosed

Where

3 data centers in Licking County: 2 running, 1 proposed. A dashed edge means the exact site is not in the public record; every pin here marks a town or the county.

The outline is Licking County's boundary from the U.S. Census Bureau. Tap a pin for that data center's facts and a link to its page.

The cities in Licking County on the record (3)

3 of 3 cities have a record. A city without one is listed, not linked, until its first published record.

City	Projects	Rules
Heath	1	0
Hebron	1	0
Pataskala	1	1

What Licking County has decided

1 body, 4 decisions on the record

What the county and the cities in it have done about data centers: each body on its own row with its rating, open, case by case, restrictive or closed, never good or bad, and every vote, ordinance, moratorium or agreement behind its toggle, newest first, with its source.

Reported: the source's date; the item names no day of its own.

Pataskalacity
Pataskala city council unanimously voted to block construction of a proposed 200 megawatt three building data center, reported September 23, 2026.
spectrumnews1.com local outlet
no published rating
4 acts on this row
1. Reported Sep 23denial
  Pataskala city council unanimously voted to block construction of a proposed 200 megawatt three building data center.
  spectrumnews1.com local outlet
2. Reported Aug 27denial
  Planning and Zoning Commission rejected the proposal 5-2
  yahoo.com national outlet
3. Reported Aug 25denial
  Pataskala City Council voted against data center proposal
  nbc4i.com local outlet
  Also reported by 1 source
  - yahoo.com national outlet
4. Jun 3denial
  Pataskala Planning and Zoning Commission voted 5 to 2 on June 3 to recommend rejection of Aligned Data Centers site plan
  thereportingproject.org local outlet
Last verified September 23, 2026.

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What happened

Reported September 23, 2026 · Pataskala

Denial: Pataskala city council unanimously voted to block construction of a proposed 200 megawatt three building data center. spectrumnews1.com local outlet
Reported August 27, 2026 · Pataskala

Denial: Planning and Zoning Commission rejected the proposal 5-2 yahoo.com national outlet
Reported August 25, 2026 · Pataskala

Denial: Pataskala City Council voted against data center proposal nbc4i.com local outlet
Reported August 23, 2026 · Pataskala data center proposal

Now reported: Aligned Data Centers proposes 200 megawatt facility in three buildings on 89 acres thereportingproject.org local outlet
June 3, 2026 · Pataskala

Denial: Pataskala Planning and Zoning Commission voted 5 to 2 on June 3 to recommend rejection of Aligned Data Centers site plan thereportingproject.org local outlet

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Nearby counties with records

25 miles away Fairfield County 1 data center on the record 29 miles away Franklin County 9 data centers on the record 32 miles away Coshocton County 1 data center on the record 43 miles away Pickaway County 1 data center on the record

Every Ohio county.

Disclosed figures

nothing disclosed by 3 records

Power, water, jobs and tax, summed only where a data center disclosed the figure; what each facility is for; how each is cooled. Nothing here is estimated.

Power, water, jobs and tax

Figure	Disclosed total	Not disclosed
Power	Not disclosed	3	Not disclosed by any of the 3 records
Water, stated per day	Not disclosed	3	Not disclosed by any of the 3 records
Water, stated per year	Not disclosed	3	Not disclosed by any of the 3 records
Permanent jobs	Not disclosed	3	Not disclosed by any of the 3 records
Tax each year	Not disclosed	3	Not disclosed by any of the 3 records

Summed only where a record disclosed the figure; a record with no figure adds nothing and is counted as not disclosed. Water is summed per day and per year separately, as the sources stated it, and never converted. A tax claim given as a range is summed at both ends.

By what the facilities are for

Use	Records	Power	Water	Jobs	Tax each year
Not disclosed	3	Not disclosed	Not disclosed	Not disclosed	Not disclosed	Not disclosed: power, water, jobs, tax each year

A record that lists several uses counts once under each. Each cell is the sum over the records with that use, disclosed rows only.

Third party figures on the same metrics

Numbers from outside sources on the same metric and place. A figure a project disclosed about itself is in the sums above, not here. Where several sources give the same figure for the same place and year, it is one row with every source behind it (42 sources on 38 rows).

Power

40 to 50 MWOhio, statewide, 2026Hyperscale data center facilities in Ohio typically use a minimum of 40 to 50 megawatts. Springfield News-Sun (springfieldnewssun.com)
36 GWTexas, statewide; Ohio, statewide, 2026Exelon cut its data center pipeline to 36 gigawatts from 43 gigawatts. 24/7 Wall St. (247wallst.com)
11 GWTexas, statewide; Ohio, statewide, 2026Exelon has 11 gigawatts of data center pipeline classified as high probability. 24/7 Wall St. (247wallst.com)
10 GWPike County, OH, 2026Plans to eventually expand power capacity to 10 gigawatts. Washington Examiner (washingtonexaminer.com)
10 GWPiketon, Ohio County, OH, 2026PORTS Pike Technology Campus planned 10 gigawatt data center campus. enr.com (enr.com)
9.2 GWPiketon, Ohio County, OH, 2026PORTS Pike power generation capacity about 9.2 gigawatts from natural gas. enr.com (enr.com)
8.8 GWOH, 2026SB Energy has total contracted or under construction capacity of 8.8 gigawatts across multiple locations including Ohio and Texas. finance.biggo.com (finance.biggo.com)
8 GWPike County, OH, 2026Data center is planned to provide at least 8 gigawatts or 8 billion watts of electrical power. Washington Examiner (washingtonexaminer.com)
4.25 GWPiketon, Ohio County, OH, 2026Initial deployment expected to provide 4.25 gigawatts of AI factory capacity. enr.com (enr.com)
4 GWTexas, statewide; Ohio, statewide, 2026Exelon has 4 gigawatts backed by signed transmission security agreements and 1 billion dollars of collateral. 24/7 Wall St. (247wallst.com)
1.56 GWPike County, OH, 2026Largest operating U.S. data center by power capacity is SpaceXAI Colossus 2 in Tennessee at 1.563 gigawatts. Washington Examiner (washingtonexaminer.com)
482 MWHawesville, Ohio County, KY, 2026Site has 482 megawatts of transmission capability available. enr.com (enr.com)
90 MWOhio County, WV, 2026Silicon Foundation Data Center proposed in Warwood projected at less than 90 MW. WTRF (wtrf.com)
10 price increase factorOhio, statewide, 2026Capacity prices in PJM territory have surged more than tenfold since May 2025. Yahoo (canarymedia.com)
1.4 MWOhio, statewide, 2026Iron Mountain's Ohio data center uses 1.4 megawatts and serves surrounding cities. Springfield News-Sun (springfieldnewssun.com)

Water, stated per day

245,000,000 gallons a dayNew Albany, Ohio, Franklin County, OH, 2026The Columbus water department's system has a daily capacity of 245 million gallons. News 5 Cleveland WEWS (news5cleveland.com)
156,000,000 gallons a dayNew Albany, Ohio, Franklin County, OH, 2026The Columbus water department supplied 156 million gallons of water a day to customers across more than two dozen communities in 2025. News 5 Cleveland WEWS (news5cleveland.com)
30,000,000 gallons per dayLima, OH, 2026City can treat 30 million gallons of water per day. hometownstations.com (hometownstations.com)

Water, stated per year

1,000,000,000 gallons a yearNew Albany, Ohio, Franklin County, OH, 2026Google's New Albany data center used more than 1 billion gallons of water in 2025. News 5 Cleveland WEWS (news5cleveland.com)
448,000,000 gallons a yearNew Albany, Ohio, Franklin County, OH, 2026Google's Columbus data center drew down approximately 448 million gallons of water in 2025, or about 1.2 million gallons a day. News 5 Cleveland WEWS (news5cleveland.com)

Permanent jobs

1,500 jobsOhio, OH, 2026QTS Van Wert campus expected to create more than 1,500 construction jobs. TiffinOhio.net (tiffinohio.net)
200 jobsOhio, OH, 2026QTS Van Wert campus expected to create approximately 200 permanent company positions. TiffinOhio.net (tiffinohio.net)
18 jobsOhio, statewide, 2026Aligned Data Centers in Erie County received a 75 percent 15 year tax exemption and was expected to create 18 full time jobs, announced September 2023. politifact.com (politifact.com)

Tax each year

2,500,000,000 dollarsOhio, statewide, 2026
2 sources
- Data centers in Ohio received about 2.5 billion dollars in state and local tax incentives from 2017 to 2024. politifact.com (politifact.com)
- Ohio data centers received 2.5 billion dollars in state and local tax incentives between 2017 and 2024. National Memo (nationalmemo.com)
1,600,000,000 dollarsOhio, statewide, 2026
2 sources
- Data Center Tax Exemption cost the state 1.6 billion dollars as of 2025. Morning Journal (morningjournal.com)
- As of 2025, the Ohio Data Center Tax Exemption cost the state 1.6 billion dollars. News-Herald (news-herald.com)
1,500,000,000 dollars a yearOhio, statewide, 2026
2 sources
- Ohio data center sales tax exemption totaled 1.5 billion dollars in 2025, more than 10 times the state's original estimate. Yahoo Finance (finance.yahoo.com)
- Ohio data center sales tax exemption topped 1.5 billion dollars in 2025, more than 10 times the state's original estimate (given as 1,500,000,000 dollars). Stocktwits (stocktwits.com)
136,000,000 dollarsOhio, statewide, 2026
2 sources
- State revenue loss from Ohio Data Center Tax Exemption was estimated at approximately 136 million dollars in 2013. News-Herald (news-herald.com)
- State revenue loss from Ohio Data Center Tax Exemption estimated at 136 million dollars in 2013. Morning Journal (morningjournal.com)
2,300,000,000 dollarsColumbus, Ohio, 2026Ohio has committed at least 2.3 billion dollars in sales tax exemptions for data centers. wowo.com (wowo.com)
2,300,000,000 USDOhio, statewide, 2026Ohio granted $2.3 billion in state sales tax exemptions to 18 tech companies building data centers; exemptions continue for 30 years. Yahoo (ohiocapitaljournal.com)
2,000,000,000 USDDefiance, Ohio, 2026Ohio forgone more than $2 billion in sales tax revenue in 2024 and 2025 because of data center tax breaks. Межа. Новини України. (mezha.net)
1,500,000,000 USDOH, 2026Sales tax exemptions for data centers cost Ohio at least $1.5 billion in 2025. nbc4i.com (yahoo.com)
1,500,000,000 dollars a yearOhio, OH, 2026Ohio's data center equipment sales tax exemption costs more than 1.5 billion dollars annually. Newser (newser.com)
43,500,000 dollarsOhio, statewide, 2026Google received a 15 year state sales tax exemption estimated at 43.5 million dollars for New Albany data center. politifact.com (politifact.com)
40,000,000 dollarsOhio, statewide, 2026Meta paid over 40 million dollars in Ohio property taxes and fees during the 2018 to 2026 period. Stocktwits (stocktwits.com)
11,000,000 dollarsOhio, statewide, 2026Amazon paid almost 11 million dollars in Ohio state property taxes and fees last year. Stocktwits (stocktwits.com)
2,750,000 dollarsPerry Township, Stark County, OH, 2026Perry Township would receive $2.75 million upfront in exchange for 25% of property tax revenue over 30 years under the tax abatement agreement. Canton Repository (cantonrep.com)
2,500,000,000 dollarsPike County, OH, 2024Between 2017 and 2024, Ohio provided about $2.5 billion in tax incentives to attract data center development. TiffinOhio.net (tiffinohio.net)
6,300,000 dollarsPike County, OH, 2024American Electric Power Service Corporation received $6.3 million in data center tax breaks from the state as of September 2024. TiffinOhio.net (tiffinohio.net)

What the facilities are for

No source on file states what any of the 3 tracked facilities in Licking County are for.

How the facilities are cooled

No source on file states how any of the 3 tracked facilities in Licking County are cooled.

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Data centers in Licking County, Ohio

The 3 data centers in Licking County

Microsoft Heath datacenter

Microsoft Hebron datacenter

Pataskala data center proposal

Where

What Licking County has decided

What happened

Nearby counties with records

Disclosed figures

Power, water, jobs and tax

By what the facilities are for

What the facilities are for

How the facilities are cooled

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