On a sunny afternoon in late April, Alex Klosterman jumps behind the wheel of a city van to narrate a drive through a sprawling business park northeast of Columbus.
By now, he’s mastered this hourlong tour, past offices, warehouses, manufacturing hubs and the vast site where Intel Corp. is building a semiconductor plant — the investment that earned this stretch of central Ohio the nickname Silicon Heartland.
Looking at a map, it’s hard to comprehend the size of the New Albany International Business Park, which spans 12,000 acres. You could fit the whole city of Westlake inside it, with room to spare. And it’s here, in this meticulously planned community lined with white, paddock-style fences, that Ohio’s recent data center boom was born…