Just days after a group of rural Ohio residents filed a petition to put a constitutional ban on mega data centers on the statewide ballot, Energy Secretary Chris Wright and his team visited Piketon, OH, to announce the world’s largest data center would be built on the site of a former uranium plant, a little over an hour south from Columbus.
The U.S. Department of Energy said the 10-gigawatt data center is part of the U.S.-Japan Strategic Trade and Investment Agreement announced by Trump last year. The initiative includes $33.3 billion in Japanese funding tied to a natural gas generation component, which means this particular data center will include 9.2 gigawatts of natural gas generation.
In a statement to AP News, Wright said the project would “add power generation, create jobs, and ensure the United States wins the AI race.”…