Amazon (AWS) data center campus in southwest Wilmington
Amazon wants to build a $4 billion data center campus on 471 acres in southwest Wilmington. The first phase would have three buildings, a substation and a water treatment plant. The city rezoned the land in September 2026 by emergency vote.
Where things stand: City Council passed the rezoning 7-0 on Sept. 3, 2026, as an emergency law. Residents are still objecting.
🕒 Latest update (Sept 3, 2026): City Council passed the rezoning from rural residential to light industrial 7-0 as an emergency law, after it failed 5-2 two weeks earlier.
What we know
- 📍 WhereOff U.S. 68, near the Timber Glen neighborhood in southwest Wilmington, Wilmington, Clinton County
- 🏢 CompanyAmazon Web Services
- 👤 Built forAmazon
- 🌳 Size471 acres
- 🔌 Where the power comes fromAES Ohio
- 💧 WaterCity of Wilmington (Amazon would pay residential rates plus a reserve fee)
- 💵 Cost$4 billion
- 💸 Tax breaksProposed 30-year deal: from 2035 to 2064 Amazon would pay 30% of normal property taxes to the city, schools, Laurel Oaks career campus and the port authority.
- 👷 Jobs promised100
❓ Still unanswered
Nobody has answered these in public yet. Can you help find out?
- Did City Council give final approval to the 30-year tax break? 🙋 I'll find out
- How much water will the campus use each day? 🙋 I'll find out
- Has the Planning Commission approved the site plan? 🙋 I'll find out
What happened so far
- Dec 2, 2025City Council took up a 30-year tax break for a $4 billion Amazon data center after delaying the vote twice.
- Jan 8, 2026Planning Commission tabled the site plan because water and habitat studies were missing.
- Sept 3, 2026City Council passed the rezoning from rural residential to light industrial 7-0 as an emergency law, after it failed 5-2 two weeks earlier.
Local votes and rules
🗳️ Public vote
Voters will decide four referendums that could strike down zoning ordinances the city passed for the planned Amazon Web Services data center. A separate citizen zoning ordinance was kept off the ballot by the county elections board, and its backers went to the Ohio Supreme Court.
🗺️ Zoning change
City council passed emergency rezoning that clears the way for a 1.9-million-square-foot Amazon Web Services data center on 471 acres along South U.S. 68. Emergency laws take effect right away and cannot be put to a referendum.
⚖️ Court case
A resident sued to overturn the 'emergency' rezoning for the Amazon data center, saying the emergency label was used to block a public vote.
✋ Turned down
City council re-passed the generator noise rule 6-1 as an emergency, but the rezoning for the Amazon Web Services data center failed because it needed at least 75% of the vote.
⚖️ Court case
A federal judge ruled that Wilmington did not give proper public notice before passing zoning, data center use and generator noise rules for a planned $4 billion Amazon Web Services data center. The city had to redo them before acting on the site plan.
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Where this comes from
- Amazon proposes $4B data center in Wilmington, seeks tax abatement · WYSU / WVXU · Dec 2, 2025
- Wilmington planning commission tables vote on $4B Amazon data center site plan · WYSU · Jan 8, 2026
- Wilmington residents continue dissent over data center ordinances passed by city council · FOX19 · Sept 4, 2026
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