BOWLING GREEN, Ohio — The Ohio Power Siting Board approved construction of a 350-megawatt natural gas power plant in Wood County on February 3 — with no public hearing — and most people who live nearby are only finding out now.
The Apollo Power Generation Facility is being built by Will-Power OH, LLC, a subsidiary of The Williams Companies, near the intersection of Mercer Road and Middleton Pike in Middleton Township. The plant will operate entirely off the public electric grid — behind-the-meter — generating power exclusively for one customer: Liames, LLC, a shell company currently constructing a data center campus directly adjacent to the Apollo site.
Local officials and regional economic development partners have publicly identified the Liames data center as a Meta project…