Southern Ohio community embraces world's largest AI data center
News Clip4:15LOCAL 12·OH·6/20/2026
A community in southern Ohio is reportedly welcoming a plan to build what is described as the world's largest AI data center. This development stands in contrast to widespread protests across the country against new AI data centers, which often raise concerns about resource depletion, power grid strain, noise, and pollution.
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Increasingly, people across the country are protesting proposed AI data centers, concerned that the centers will drain resources, strain power grids, and cause noise and pollution.
But a plan to build the largest AI data center in the world in southern Ohio is being welcomed by many with open arms: https://tinyurl.com/yc6hxnbw
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