data centers

Butler County Commissioners voted Tuesday to approve a temporary pause on data center developments, after several townships requested a moratorium.

As many Ohio communities consider or have already enacted data center moratoriums, Governor Mike DeWine urged local leaders not to completely rule out what he said could be a good deal.

House Bill 646, which establishes a Data Center Study Commission, got a makeover in the Senate Energy Committee Tuesday morning.

Recent polling shows data centers are increasingly unpopular. That opposition was a factor in several local primary races in Kentucky where data center projects have popped up.

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After Monday, Ohio will not give any new data centers its major tax break for the foreseeable future.

On Cincinnati Edition's weekly news review, local journalists join us to talk about the big stories from recent days.

It's unlikely all the signatures collected so far are valid, and the number is far short of the hundreds of thousands of signatures needed, but the group is pleased so far.

People around data centers and future sites are sounding the alarm about their land and water use, utility costs and jobs created. The data center industry is starting to push back.

The regulations do not ban data centers. Instead, permit applications for new data centers or to expand an existing data center will go through additional approvals.