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Recent Ohio data center news

• Jul 24, 2026

  Episode for July 24, 2026

  The Allegheny Front has published an episode roundup covering several Pennsylvania environmental and infrastructure stories, including U.S. Steel’s mill modernization plans, AI tornado forecasting, a renewed solar schools program, and a crowdfunding challenge to a data center project.

  • U.S. Steel is described as investing big money to modernize a mill in the Pittsburgh area, with local reaction split between air pollution concerns and expected economic impact.
  • The episode also notes that Pennsylvania’s Solar for Schools program has been renewed for a third year and is funded at $25 million, covering 75% of school district solar installation costs; another segment says environmental groups are crowdfunding a legal challenge to the Homer City data center project tied to a gas-fired power plant.
• Jul 23, 2026

  White House Expands Data Center Ratepayer Pledge as Congress Moves to Codify Protections

  The White House expanded its voluntary Ratepayer Protection Pledge to 187 utilities, electric cooperatives, and data-center developers, while Congress advanced the bipartisan Ratepayer Protection Act from committee 52-0.

  • The White House said the pledge now covers 187 organizations plus 23 governors, and the coalition “protects” 263 million Americans; signatories commit to fund generation and grid upgrades for their data-center loads without shifting costs to other ratepayers.
  • The House Energy and Commerce Committee advanced H.R. 9340 on July 21; the bill would require state regulators and nonregulated utilities to consider a large-load standard for sites with at least 100 MW peak demand and recover the full incremental cost of grid upgrades. New York’s Executive Order 62 separately put permits for 50 MW+ data centers on hold pending an environmental review.
• Jul 22, 2026

  White House Warns PJM to Reform Grid Governance ‘Before It Is Too Late’

  The White House has warned PJM Interconnection to overhaul its governance and stakeholder process, while PJM says it is still on the administration’s previously announced timeline.

  • The White House spokesperson said PJM has failed to implement the bipartisan Statement of Principles provided in January and urged reforms to stakeholder process, board governance, and implementation “before it is too late.”
  • PJM said it has worked with the White House Energy Dominance Council and the 13-state region’s governors, completed its stakeholder process on backstop procurement, and expects the Board to act in very short order.
  • FERC is scheduled to hold a technical conference on PJM governance and stakeholder process, with remarks from Peter Lake of the White House’s National Energy Dominance Council.
  • The debate is tied to rising power demand from AI data centers, cloud providers, and other large industrial customers, with concerns about interconnection queues, transmission expansion, and capacity costs.
• Jul 21, 2026

  “Just give me my damn data center”: Strip club owner-turned-developer faces pushback on SoCal desert project

  Sebastian Rucci is pushing forward a proposed 950,000-square-foot data center in California’s Imperial Valley, despite opposition and a county moratorium on data projects.

  • The project is described as a $10 billion data center that would use 330 megawatts of power and has received preliminary approvals.
  • The Imperial County Board of Supervisors imposed a 45-day freeze on data projects and later extended it to one year; the Imperial Irrigation District rejected Rucci’s plan to buy farmland and use its Colorado River water allocation for cooling.
  • Rucci said he has invested $5 million of his own money; the story also notes lawsuits he filed against officials, the utility, an activist, and a public television station, with several claims recently dismissed.
• Jul 17, 2026

  Episode for July 17, 2026

  The Allegheny Front has released a July 17, 2026 podcast episode summarizing several environmental and infrastructure stories in Pennsylvania and Ohio.

  • The episode notes a movement to slow down data center development in Pennsylvania, while state lawmakers were not ready to repeal a key tax exemption.
  • It also references gas processing facility expansion opposition in rural Pennsylvania, four injection wells in southeastern Ohio that were stopped at the request of state regulators, and forests in Allegheny and Fayette Counties being added to the Old-Growth Forest Network.
• Jul 17, 2026

  New York State just hit pause on the AI data center boom

  New York State has announced a one-year moratorium on new hyperscale data centers while it develops a regulatory framework for permitting, community impacts, and grid protection.

  • Governor Kathy Hochul signed an Executive Order described as the “nation’s first moratorium” on new hyperscale data centers, with the state halting environmental permits for up to one year.
  • New York will create a Generic Environmental Impact Statement (GEIS) and a Community Investment Framework (CIF) within 60 days; the article also says the state is considering a fund tied to aging grid infrastructure and clean energy procurement.
  • The proposed community contribution is $1 million per megawatt (MW) of anticipated utility demand per project, implying $50 million for 50 MW and $400 million for 400 MW.
  • The piece is a news analysis/commentary article about policy and industry impacts, not a first-hand company announcement; it references prior and current policy moves in New York and quotes analysts on likely market effects.
• Jul 16, 2026

  High-density Data Center and Colocation Footprints

  365 Data Centers has outlined its high-density data center expansion strategy, combining upgrades to existing facilities with a new AI-ready capacity pipeline.

  • The company says organic expansion will upgrade facilities it already owns and operates in Pennsylvania, Texas, Georgia, and Colorado to support higher-density deployments.
  • Through a partnership with Aphorio Carter, 365 Data Centers says it is developing about 200 MW of AI-ready capacity across key U.S. markets over the next 18-24 months, with initial projects in Colorado and Kentucky and other sites under evaluation in Connecticut, Kentucky, Virginia, Ohio, and Tennessee.
• Jul 14, 2026

  Climate Change Solutions - July 14, 2026

  The Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) has published a climate and energy newsletter highlighting recent articles, congressional actions, and upcoming briefings.

  • Main announcement/action: EESI promotes an online briefing with the Natural Resources Defense Council on Thursday, July 16 at noon about tracking and reducing nitrogen fertilizer use, associated emissions, and lowering costs for farmers.
  • Background and other details: The newsletter also references a House vote on the SECURE Grid Act (H.R. 7257), a future briefing on severe drought on July 24, and archived materials on extreme heat, grid resilience, and data centers.
  • The issue is presented as a newsletter / event roundup rather than a standalone policy announcement by a company, and it includes EESI contact information at the end.
• Jul 14, 2026

  The New Large-Load Compact

  The article argues that AI data centers should be treated as active participants in grid planning rather than passive customers.

  • It says FERC’s June 2026 large-load tariff actions directed the six jurisdictional regional grid operators to justify or reform rules for data centers and advanced manufacturing facilities.
  • It also cites Berkeley Lab, ESIG, NERC, and ERCOT as examples and frameworks for reforming interconnection, cost responsibility, flexibility, and resource adequacy; this is commentary and analysis, not a new standalone company announcement.
• Jul 14, 2026

  US Air Force Research Lab to relocate TI-19 supercomputer from Ohio to Mississippi

  The US Department of Defense’s High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) plans to relocate the TI-19 supercomputer from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio to the Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) facility in Vicksburg, Mississippi.

  • Single-source notice says Hewlett Packard Enterprise will receive the relocation contract because it is the manufacturer of TI-19 and has the only access to the proprietary physical and logical interconnections needed to disassemble and reassemble the system.
  • A referenced 2016 presentation lists TI-19 as an FY21 system with 47 petaflops on a Cray EX architecture; the article notes the system was originally expected to run until 2024 and that Wright-Patterson recently unveiled the $20m Flyer supercomputer with 14 petaflops.