Piketon has 1 data center on the record; it is being built. No city rule about data centers is on the record for Piketon yet. Pike County's own decisions are on the Pike County page.
How to read this page. Every count comes from the records on this page and links to where it is counted. Nothing is published until a person reads its source, and a figure no source gives reads Not disclosed; nothing is estimated. A rating changes only when a person sets it.
| Facility and county | Stage | Operator | Power (MW) | Latest entry |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PORTS-Pike Technology Campus Piketon, Pike County | Being built | SB Energy | PORTS-Pike Technology Campus is a 10 GW data center with co located gas generator rtoinsider.com (opens in a new tab) trade press reported September 7, 2026 |
A blank cell means not disclosed by any source on file. Power is the developer's figure or a permit's, each linked on the record.
| Record | Place | Stage | Operator | MW | Basis | Located | Tier | Verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PORTS-Pike Technology Campus | Piketon, Pike | Being built | SB Energy | EPA registry | 3 | 2026-10-25 |
Tier 1: an official or company source. Tier 2: a news report resolving to the outlet's own page. Located: a site coordinate from a permit, a parcel or an address, or the county or town centroid. Verified: the last day a person read the source. A blank cell means not disclosed by any source on file.
Now waiting on permitsPORTS-Pike Technology Campus
Prime Data Centers developer detailed Starpointe data center proposal on September 2, 2026
ApprovedPORTS-Pike Technology Campus
Broke groundPORTS-Pike Technology Campus
OpenAI entered into a 20 year lease agreement with SB Energy and SoftBank Group on Monday
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 Ohio statement, by speaker
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said now is the time to scale the AI infrastructure that will power the next industrial revolution
Provenance: Paraphrased; said in the source itself.
Primary source: Washington Examiner (opens in a new tab).
Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the data center will be bigger than any facility ever built in world history
Provenance: Paraphrased; said in the source itself.
Primary source: Washington Examiner (opens in a new tab).
OpenAI said this gives a site that once supported American industry and national security a new role building infrastructure for the Intelligence Era
Provenance: Paraphrased; said in the source itself.
Primary source: Washington Examiner (opens in a new tab).
Merrin voted in 2017 for Ohio's 2018-19 budget which included tax breaks for data centers.
Provenance: Paraphrased; content date; reported from elsewhere.
Primary source: TiffinOhio.net (opens in a new tab).
Distances run between the centers the Census Bureau gives each place. Every Ohio county.
| Figure | Disclosed total | Disclosed | Without a figure | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Power | 0 | 1 | ||
| Water, stated per day | 0 | 1 | ||
| Water, stated per year | 0 | 1 | ||
| Permanent jobs | 0 | 1 | ||
| Tax each year | 0 | 1 |
A blank total means no record disclosed the figure; the count without one says how many.
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.
| Use | Records | Power | Water | Jobs | Tax each year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No stated use | 1 |
A blank cell means no record with that use disclosed the figure.
A record that lists several uses counts once under each. Each cell is the sum over the records with that use, disclosed rows only.
No source on file states what any of the 1 tracked facility in Piketon is for.
No source on file states how any of the 1 tracked facility in Piketon is cooled.
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Data Center Record, "Data center records in Piketon, Pike County, Ohio", https://datacenterrecord.org/states/oh/pike-county/piketon. Data: Data Center Record, datacenterrecord.org, CC BY-NC 4.0.
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