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The Non-Disclosure Blackout and Capture of Champion Farms?
PERRY, Ohio — Internal correspondences from early 2024 seem to expose the massive financial leverage applied to local municipal decision-makers to secure political cooperation behind closed doors on the Champion Farm land deal before any public notices were issued regarding the Champion Farm data center development. On February 5, 2024,
Findlay Works with Local Zoning Toolkit to Make Data Center Development Difficult, Can It Work?
BY CAREY MORGAN FINDLAY - Facing a tight regulatory timeline under an active 12-month emergency moratorium, the Findlay Planning and Zoning Committee is scrambling to rewrite its industrial code to manage a looming wave of potential data center development. However, while local lawmakers are focused on micro-managing physical plot
Springfield City Commission Passes Moratorium on Data Centers
BY JEFF SKINNER SPRINGFIELD - The Springfield City Commission voted unanimously 5-0 on Tuesday night to halt all development of high-density computing infrastructure, enacting an immediate six-month temporary moratorium to study the regional strains caused by mega-data centers. The sweeping freeze blocks the establishment, processing, review, and
Op-ed: Ohio's Secret Data Center Deal Is a Bigger Scandal Than House Bill 6; Nobody Even Had to Break the Law
BY DAKOTA SAWYER When Larry Householder was sentenced to twenty years for the House Bill 6 scheme, Ohioans got the story they thought they understood. A Speaker of the House took $60 million funneled through a dark money nonprofit, rammed a billion-dollar nuclear bailout through the legislature, and went