7 data center projects in New Albany City
Who decides here: the City Council of New Albany City votes on zoning. The Licking County may review big projects too.
In New Albany City
Karis Critical 'Smart Farms' data center campus (Beech and Green Chapel roads)
New Albany, Licking County
114 acres
🕒 Jan 2026: Karis asked Ohio EPA for permission to fill wetlands and streams on the site.
Reported in the news, not confirmed yet
Being builtVantage Data Centers OH1 campus (New Albany)
New Albany, Licking County
70 acres
🕒 Oct 25, 2024: Vantage broke ground on its $2 billion, 192-megawatt OH1 campus.
Reported in the news, not confirmed yet
Being builtEdgeConneX data center campus on Innovation Campus Way (New Albany)
New Albany, Licking County
🕒 April 10, 2026: A case for a third, 430 MW gas plant was opened with the Power Siting Board.
Being builtMeta data center campus expansion (New Albany, 'Prometheus')
New Albany, Licking County
574 acres · for Meta
🕒 Aug 2026: The 200 MW 'Socrates South' gas plant near Beech and Morse roads began running.
Built & runningAWS $3.5 billion data center campus (New Albany)
New Albany, Licking County
for Amazon Web Services
🕒 Aug 7, 2025: City and AWS said two buildings were finished and the rest were under construction.
Being builtCyrusOne data center on Jug Street Road (New Albany)
New Albany, Licking County
🕒 Sept 2025: CyrusOne held a groundbreaking.
ProposedGoogle land on Harrison Road NW (New Albany)
New Albany, Licking County
85 acres · for Google
🕒 May 2025: A Google company bought about 85 acres for $63 million.
Nearby (within 15 miles)
Aligned Data Centers plan in Pataskala Corporate Park
Pataskala, Licking County
89 acres
🕒 Aug 25, 2026: City council voted 7-0 to reject the site plan, citing missing power details.
Proposedabout 5 miles awayMicrosoft land on Refugee Road (Pataskala)
Pataskala, Licking County
for Microsoft
🕒 Aug 25, 2026: Local reporting described a Microsoft data center as proposed for the Refugee Road site.
Reported in the news, not confirmed yet
Being builtabout 5 miles awayCologix AI data center campus (Johnstown)
Johnstown, Licking County
154 acres
🕒 Sept 10, 2026: Johnstown City Council set a Jan. 5, 2027 special election on a charter ban of data cent…
Stopped or cancelledabout 13 miles awayAmazon (AWS) data center campus in Sunbury Business and Technology Park
Sunbury, Delaware County
for Amazon
🕒 June 2026: Residents began collecting signatures for a charter change to ban data centers over 25 m…
Being builtabout 15 miles awayCologix COL5 data center (Lewis Center)
Orange, Delaware County
28 acres · for Cologix (rents space to many customers)
🕒 June 1, 2026: Cologix announced over $1.1 billion for two new central Ohio campuses, one in Orange Tow…
Built & runningabout 15 miles awayGoogle Columbus data center campus (South High Street)
Columbus, Franklin County
for Google
🕒 2026: A fourth Google building on the Columbus campus started running, per the Cleanview track…
What you can do
- Get told first.
We'll email you if anything changes in New Albany City. - Go to council meetings.
Anyone can speak. Big projects usually need a public hearing. - Ask questions in writing.
Use our checklist.
🔔 Get told first
⚡ Your electric company
Depending on where you live in New Albany City: Ohio Power Co. (company) or Licking Rural Electric Inc. (co-op (owned by its members)) or Ohio Edison Co. (company).
Big data centers need a lot of power. Who pays for new power lines depends on state rules. See the rules in Ohio.
🙋 Open tasks here
- Did Ohio EPA approve the wetland permit?
- Who would run the data centers, and how much power and water would they use?
- Is the first building open?
- How much water will it use, and what tax break did it get?
- Will the 430 MW gas plant be approved, and what air permits does it need?
- How much water will the campus use?
- How much water does the Meta campus use?
- What are the air emissions from the Socrates gas plants?
- How much power and water do the new AWS buildings use?
- How many megawatts will it use?
- Did New Albany give a property tax break?
- Will Google build a data center here, and when?