September 20, 20231 yr Amazon Web Services confirms plan for additional data centers in New Albany, will invest $3.5B by 2030 Amazon Web Services will establish new data centers in the city of New Albany, the company confirmed Tuesday. The Amazon.com subsidiary plans to invest $3.5 billion in New Albany by 2030, expanding its existing data center footprint in the city and the broader region. AWS currently operates data centers in New Albany, Dublin and Hilliard, and in June announced plans to invest an additional $7.8 billion to expand its data center footprint in Central Ohio. AWS expects to construct at least five data centers, as well as other related buildings including administrative office facilities, on a roughly 438-acre site it has purchased along Beech and Miller roads in the New Albany International Business Park, city documents show. The initial phase of the project, located on 85 acres within the property, is expected to begin in 2025. More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2023/09/19/amazon-web-services-new-albany-data-centers.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
September 25, 20231 yr On 8/2/2023 at 10:25 PM, Luvcbus said: New Albany Tech Park lands first development project "Commercial real estate developer VanTrust Real Estate, LLC has secured its first client in the New Albany Tech Park, located in the New Albany International Business Park. VanTrust will develop a 1.2 million square-foot building for DSV, a global leader in the transport and logistics industry based in Denmark. Construction will begin in August, with expected completion by December 2024. When completed, the warehouse will be the largest industrial building in the City of New Albany. VanTrust announced plans for a new business park, New Albany Tech Park, in June 2022. The Park sits on approximately 500 acres located within The New Albany International Business Park, the region's largest master-planned business park. The build-to-suit DSV warehouse is the first of multiple projects anticipated at the New Albany Tech Park." https://www.benzinga.com/pressreleases/23/08/n33527021/vantrust-signs-first-development-project-in-new-albany-tech-park Work is underway on the massive DSV distribution center at the New Albany Tech Park adjacent to Intel
September 25, 20231 yr On 9/19/2023 at 9:11 PM, ColDayMan said: Amazon Web Services confirms plan for additional data centers in New Albany, will invest $3.5B by 2030 Amazon Web Services will establish new data centers in the city of New Albany, the company confirmed Tuesday. The Amazon.com subsidiary plans to invest $3.5 billion in New Albany by 2030, expanding its existing data center footprint in the city and the broader region. AWS currently operates data centers in New Albany, Dublin and Hilliard, and in June announced plans to invest an additional $7.8 billion to expand its data center footprint in Central Ohio. AWS expects to construct at least five data centers, as well as other related buildings including administrative office facilities, on a roughly 438-acre site it has purchased along Beech and Miller roads in the New Albany International Business Park, city documents show. The initial phase of the project, located on 85 acres within the property, is expected to begin in 2025. More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2023/09/19/amazon-web-services-new-albany-data-centers.html Five more data centers at 50 jobs per equals another 250 jobs for the NA area.
September 25, 20231 yr More projects rising across the Silicon Heartland Innovation Park- (And it appears a few more on site could go vertical soon)
October 16, 20231 yr New NatureMade facility can be seen rising in the distance from Jug St near the Harrison Rd roundabout
October 24, 20231 yr $1.5B more in data centers are headed to New Albany "New Albany is getting four more data centers, a $1.5 billion investment that builds on central Ohio’s reputation as as data center hub. QTS Data Centers of Overland Park, Kansas, plans to start construction in March, according to Sara Zeigler, New Albany’s economic development manager. Construction should be finished in 2025. The data centers will be built on two chunks of property on Beech Road south of State Rte. 161, not far from where Facebook, Google, Amazon and other companies have data centers. Two QTS data centers will be built on one site, a 57-acre piece of property that will have a total investment of $1 billion, according to the city. The other two data centers, worth $546 million, will be built on a 37-acre site. The company says the project is in the early stages and that it will release more details as groundbreaking approaches." https://www.dispatch.com/story/business/2023/10/23/kansas-firm-qts-data-centers-to-invest-1-5-billion-in-new-albany/71258892007/
November 15, 20231 yr One of Central Ohio’s fastest-growing companies to begin construction on new industrial development near Intel "LeVeck Commercial Construction & Development, a Gahanna-based company, is developing Edge Industrial Park on Worthington Road. The new speculative development will be located on 71 acres in Jersey Township. The first phase of the project includes a 255,000-square-foot building at 12101 Worthington Road. The warehouse is one of five proposed buildings that are expected to total more than 1 million square feet. Edge Industrial Park is located less than a mile from the Mink Street/State Route 161 exit, and less than 3 miles from Intel's new semiconductor manufacturing site in New Albany." https://www.nbc4i.com/news/columbus-business-first/one-of-central-ohios-fastest-growing-companies-to-begin-construction-on-new-industrial-development-near-intel-site/
November 27, 20231 yr QTS Data Centers commits to $4.4B investment in New Albany "QTS Data Centers, a Kansas-based company already committed to building four data centers in New Albany, plans to triple its initial investment. New Albany City Council last week approved a pair of incentives for the co-location data center provider, which wants to build eight additional facilities spanning 3.2 million square feet on 240 acres on Babbitt and Miller roads. It will invest nearly $3 billion in those projects." https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2023/11/27/qts-data-center-expansion-new-albany.html
December 10, 20231 yr On 8/3/2023 at 9:44 AM, Luvcbus said: More on this^ in today's Dispatch: "Work is expected to start in a few weeks on a 1.2-million-square-foot warehouse, the largest industrial building in New Albany. VanTrust Real Estate, based in Kansas City with offices in Columbus, is building the distribution center for the Danish logistics company DSV. Construction is expected to be completed by December 2024. This will be the first tenant in the New Albany Tech Park, a 500-acre development announced by VanTrust last year on Jug Street, south of the Intel factories under construction. DSV, which transports and manages goods for companies around the world, expects to target semi-conductor suppliers among others for the distribution center. This is the company's first Ohio warehouse." https://www.dispatch.com/story/business/2023/08/03/huge-new-warehouse-in-new-albany-targets-intel-suppliers/70514315007/ DSV Distribution Center at the New Albany Tech Park is vertical
February 19, 20241 yr Amgen's New Albany biopharma packaging plant is now open "Amgen Inc.'s biopharmaceutical processing and packaging plant in New Albany is open and already hired 240 of an expected 400 employees, executives told Columbus Business First. The plant was licensed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to start production in January, according to Amgen's (Nasdaq: AMGN) annual report. Two lines are running, said Sandra Rodriguez Toledo, vice president of site operations for Amgen Ohio. "We are already producing commercial product," Rodriguez Toledo said. Six more production lines will come online through 2025 depending on demand, she said, bringing the facility to the full 400 jobs. So far 80% of site employees are from Ohio. "Our Ohio facility is a great example of our investment in manufacturing and investment in innovation," said Arleen Paulino, corporate senior vice president of manufacturing, in a joint interview. "We're proud of it being our most digitally advanced and highly automated facility we have." https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2024/02/18/amgen-ohio-new-albany-plant-open.html
March 4, 20241 yr Soon enough we can stop calling the region "Central Ohio" and start calling it "Amazon Ohio" identifiable by all the Amazon warehouses, fulfillment centers and server farm buildings.
March 5, 20241 yr On 8/2/2023 at 10:25 PM, Luvcbus said: New Albany Tech Park lands first development project "Commercial real estate developer VanTrust Real Estate, LLC has secured its first client in the New Albany Tech Park, located in the New Albany International Business Park. VanTrust will develop a 1.2 million square-foot building for DSV, a global leader in the transport and logistics industry based in Denmark. Construction will begin in August, with expected completion by December 2024. When completed, the warehouse will be the largest industrial building in the City of New Albany. VanTrust announced plans for a new business park, New Albany Tech Park, in June 2022. The Park sits on approximately 500 acres located within The New Albany International Business Park, the region's largest master-planned business park. The build-to-suit DSV warehouse is the first of multiple projects anticipated at the New Albany Tech Park." https://www.benzinga.com/pressreleases/23/08/n33527021/vantrust-signs-first-development-project-in-new-albany-tech-park The 1.2 million sq ft DSV Distribution Center being built near Intel is absolutely massive. It's being built in the NATP on the plot of land between Clover Valley Rd, Jug St and the Harrison Rd extension. These don't do it justice but it was so busy I couldn't get much closer.
March 26, 20241 yr 10 minutes ago, GCrites said: Let's see those Jug! JUG'Z Tavern from Newark needs to relocate here.
April 2, 20241 yr CyrusOne plans $150m data center in New Albany "Dallas-based CyrusOne is planning a $150 million data center development in New Albany, Ohio. The company will spend $100m on building the data center, and $50m on acquiring the land for the facility. The site in question is at 12181 Jug St, though details about the project have not yet been shared." https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/cyrusone-plans-150m-data-center-in-new-albany-ohio/
April 9, 20241 yr New $40 million industrial project planned in Johnstown "A local development partnership is planning a $40 million industrial project in Johnstown. Jim Havens of Havens Limited and Rudolph Investment has partnered with JLL's Brian Marsh on a new development called the U.S. 62 Logistics Center. The 20-acre property is located at 11850 Duncan Plains Road NW on the city's southwest side. The project will include office and industrial space designed for light manufacturing, research and development, distribution and other industrial uses. Plans for the site include a 210,000-square-foot facility, with a possible second building. Parking for at least 170 vehicles also is included, with truck access available to the facility. The site will be developed as either a build-to-suit or on a speculative basis. A construction start date has not been set. Previously owned by the Heath-Newark-Licking County Port Authority, the land is just north of the proposed Johnstown Gateway development — a 417-acre, mixed-use project adjacent to the future Intel Corp. campus." https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2024/04/08/us62-logistics-center-johnstown-industrial-project.html
April 16, 20241 yr Numerous buildings rising at the Silicon Heartland Innovation Park near the Intel site
April 27, 20241 yr Amgen open and ready for more Amgen Inc.'s biopharmaceutical processing and packaging plant opened in February in New Albany. It has more than 200 employees now and two production lines with a goal of growing to 400 workers and eight lines. Javier Tapia, executive director and plant manager with Amgen, said that operation will deliver 11 million units this year. By 2025 that could be 55 million. Based on Amgen’s pipeline, the company expects to need 15 more production lines throughout its manufacturing network, which now includes Ohio. https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2024/04/25/intel-honda-amgen-american-nitrile-ohio-manufactur.html
May 14, 20241 yr Author Amazon's newest AWS data center facility. This is located at the SE corner of Jug Street Road (at right) and Harrison Road. Looking WSW three weeks ago:
May 14, 20241 yr 44 minutes ago, aderwent said: Amazon's newest AWS data center facility. This is located at the SE corner of Jug Street Road (at right) and Harrison Road. Looking WSW three weeks ago: Snatched a few of the Amazon site at Harrison and Jug a couple days ago from the nearby roundabout. Pretty crazy that this site has only been under construction for about two years
June 21, 2024Jun 21 Multiple projects continue to rise at the Silicon Heartland Innovation Park near Beech and Jug
June 25, 2024Jun 25 Denver-based Vantage Data Centers plans to develop data center campus in Silicon Heartland Innovation Park "A developer of "hyperscale" data center campuses that recently raised $9.2 billion for global expansion plans to add to New Albany's cloud computing boom. Vantage Data Centers plans a $185 million project at 3475 Horizon Ct., according to One Columbus and the Ohio Department of Development. That's inside the new tech- and logistics-focused Silicon Heartland Innovation Park. Based in Denver with a Silicon Valley office, Vantage develops and operates 25 large-scale data center campuses across five continents. Its clients include cloud computing providers and corporations. The overall development could grow to $400 million, the developer said. The 190-acre site surrounds a new road called Horizon Court near the intersection of Jug Street and Beech Road Northwest, east of New Albany International Business Park." https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2024/06/25/vantage-data-centers-new-albany.html
July 1, 2024Jul 1 With all of these data centers popping up, I better never get lag on my PS5 ever again!
August 14, 2024Aug 14 Next New Albany data center promises to use less water, energy "New Albany is getting another data center, one meant to use less water and energy than other data centers. Edged Energy is building the data center at 6525 New Albany Rd. E. It is expected to open next July. Edged Energy pegged the investment at $246 million. The project will create 780 construction jobs and 20-25 permanent jobs. Edged Energy says the data center will be built to handle artificial intelligence workloads. What makes Edged Energy different is that its data center will use far less water and electricity." https://www.dispatch.com/story/business/2024/08/13/edged-energy-data-center-in-new-albany-to-use-less-water-electricity/74768598007/
October 28, 2024Oct 28 Microsoft will invest $1 billion in three Central Ohio data center campuses "The first phase of a major data center investment from Microsoft has been revealed. The tech giant is establishing data centers in New Albany, Heath and Hebron. The New Albany campus represents a $420 million investment and will be located on a nearly 200-acre site at 3287 Beech Road NW. Microsoft plans to begin construction on the New Albany data center in July 2025, and the project is expected to be completed by the end of 2027. The 245,000-square-foot data center will employ 30 people and is expected to create additional indirect jobs. New Albany City Council approved a 15-year, 100% property tax exemption for the data center at a meeting this month. The Heath and Hebron campuses are pending local approvals. During the build-out phase, Microsoft expects to create as many as 400 construction jobs on an annual basis. At full build-out, each location is projected to employ hundreds of full-time workers." https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2024/10/28/microsoft-data-center-investment-columbus-region.html
October 29, 2024Oct 29 9 hours ago, Luvcbus said: Microsoft will invest $1 billion in three Central Ohio data center campuses "The first phase of a major data center investment from Microsoft has been revealed. The tech giant is establishing data centers in New Albany, Heath and Hebron. The New Albany campus represents a $420 million investment and will be located on a nearly 200-acre site at 3287 Beech Road NW. I'm curious if there’s a metric that will determine if/when the region needs a small nuclear reactor to meet the power needs of these data centers as more continue to come online. Amazon on Wednesday said it has a plan to feed its growing need for power: investing in small nuclear reactors. “The announcement comes just two days after Google said it's pursuing a similar path by purchasing nuclear energy from Kairos Power. The tech giants are seeking new sources of carbon-free electricity to meet surging demand from data centers and artificial intelligence, with their plans coming after Microsoft said last month that it will buy energy from the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant.” https://www.cbsnews.com/news/amazon-nuclear-reactor-investment-google-kairos-power/ I also wonder if our state or regional governments have plans that might include building or funding that infrastructure to keep Central Ohio competitive in AI and tech. Might Microsoft and others trend towards opening new facilities in areas like Pittsburg, where nuclear power is online? Or maybe it’s wind and solar combined with some improved storage (I hear there’s huge lithium deposits in Arkansas if they can safely mine it). None of this happens quickly. I hope we’re on top of it.
October 29, 2024Oct 29 14 minutes ago, Bryan2Cbus said: I'm curious if there’s a metric that will determine if/when the region needs a small nuclear reactor to meet the power needs of these data centers as more continue to come online. Amazon on Wednesday said it has a plan to feed its growing need for power: investing in small nuclear reactors. “The announcement comes just two days after Google said it's pursuing a similar path by purchasing nuclear energy from Kairos Power. The tech giants are seeking new sources of carbon-free electricity to meet surging demand from data centers and artificial intelligence, with their plans coming after Microsoft said last month that it will buy energy from the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant.” https://www.cbsnews.com/news/amazon-nuclear-reactor-investment-google-kairos-power/ I also wonder if our state or regional governments have plans that might include building or funding that infrastructure to keep Central Ohio competitive in AI and tech. Might Microsoft and others trend towards opening new facilities in areas like Pittsburg, where nuclear power is online? Or maybe it’s wind and solar combined with some improved storage (I hear there’s huge lithium deposits in Arkansas if they can safely mine it). None of this happens quickly. I hope we’re on top of it. Spoke with someone high up in electric co-ops and they said this would be the only way. Glad these companies are catching on. Would love to know what the gov is smoking right now thinking they can get transformers to build new infrastructure quickly though 🤣
October 30, 2024Oct 30 Vantage breaks ground on New Albany data center "Vantage Data Centers has broken ground on a new data center campus outside Columbus. Situated on 70 acres in New Albany, OH1 will provide a total of 192MW of IT capacity across more than 1.5 million square feet (139,355 sqm). The company said more than $2 billion will be invested in the project, with the first of three buildings slated to open in late 2025. News that Vantage was expanding into New Albany surfaced in June. The facility is located at 3475 Horizon Ct. inside Lincoln Property Co.’s Silicon Heartland Innovation Park." https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/vantage-breaks-ground-on-new-albany-data-center-in-ohio/
November 21, 2024Nov 21 Author On 4/9/2024 at 7:57 AM, Luvcbus said: New $40 million industrial project planned in Johnstown "A local development partnership is planning a $40 million industrial project in Johnstown. Jim Havens of Havens Limited and Rudolph Investment has partnered with JLL's Brian Marsh on a new development called the U.S. 62 Logistics Center. The 20-acre property is located at 11850 Duncan Plains Road NW on the city's southwest side. The project will include office and industrial space designed for light manufacturing, research and development, distribution and other industrial uses. Plans for the site include a 210,000-square-foot facility, with a possible second building. Parking for at least 170 vehicles also is included, with truck access available to the facility. The site will be developed as either a build-to-suit or on a speculative basis. A construction start date has not been set. Previously owned by the Heath-Newark-Licking County Port Authority, the land is just north of the proposed Johnstown Gateway development — a 417-acre, mixed-use project adjacent to the future Intel Corp. campus." https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2024/04/08/us62-logistics-center-johnstown-industrial-project.html Cologix, the Denver company with four data centers near Crosswoods, is planning a $7 billion data center campus across the street from this industrial park. "A Denver-based data center company is planning a $7 billion expansion in the region. Cologix has acquired 154 acres in Johnstown for an AI-ready data center campus spanning 2 million square feet across eight facilities. The company paid nearly $45 million for the property at 12017 Duncan Plains Road, according to the Licking County Auditor. It was acquired from Johnstown Land Co., an affiliate of New Albany Co. Development of the project's first phase is expected to begin in 2025. When completed, the campus will have 800 megawatts of available power capacity." https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2024/11/20/cologix-data-center-campus-johnstown-ohio.html As an aside. Perhaps there should be a completely separate thread for the New Albany International Business Park. They kind of clog up the New Albany thread. You could also add these Johnstown developments that are Intel-adjacent so they don't clog up the sure-to-be-busy Johnstown thread in the coming years.
November 21, 2024Nov 21 A little more from the Dispatch... Cologix to invest $7 billion in Licking County data center campus "Another data center company is promising to invest billions of dollars to develop more data centers in Licking County. Cologix, a Denver-based data center company, said Wednesday that it has bought 154 acres of land in Johnstown and that the company plans to invest $7 billion in eight data centers covering 2 million square feet of space. It marks a major expansion for Cologix in central Ohio. The company has four data centers in Columbus. It also marks further buildout of data centers in a region marked by big tech companies including Amazon, Google, Facebook parent Meta and Microsoft." https://www.dispatch.com/story/business/2024/11/20/cologix-build-eight-data-center-johnstown-ohio-7-billion/76452735007/
December 4, 2024Dec 4 Meet the tech companies investing billions in central Ohio Data center corporation Cologix announced in November that it will invest more than $7 billion into its newly acquired land near the New Albany International Business Park, adding to the billion dollar digital industry reshaping central Ohio. With Cologix’s announcement, tech investments into central Ohio have reached around $54 billion in new developments across seven companies. NBC4 looked into which companies are currently building central Ohio’s Silicon Heartland. Roundups on Cologix, Amazon, Intel, Google, Microsoft, Vantage and DBT projects shaping the Silicon Heartland can be found here: https://www.nbc4i.com/intel-in-ohio/meet-the-tech-companies-investing-billions-in-central-ohio/
December 18, 2024Dec 18 New Albany Silicon Heartland November 2024 Project Update from the city of New Albany
December 25, 2024Dec 25 First building rises at the Vantage Data Center site at the Silicon Heartland Innovation Park More projects can be seen in the distance rising across the SHIP
January 12Jan 12 "Work has started on a major utility improvement project involving the installation of a duct bank in the New Albany International Business Park. Work is taking place along several key roads, including Beech Road, Jug Street, Ganton Parkway, Worthington Road, Mink Street, Clover Valley Road, Briscoe Parkway and Horizon Court. While the project will bring long-term connectivity to the area, it will involve some temporary traffic impacts, such as lane restrictions on Beech Road, between Ganton Parkway and Smith’s Mill Road south. Two-way, two-lane traffic will be maintained in nearly all areas to minimize disruption." https://www.dispatch.com/
February 25Feb 25 On 10/28/2024 at 1:18 PM, Luvcbus said: Microsoft will invest $1 billion in three Central Ohio data center campuses "The first phase of a major data center investment from Microsoft has been revealed. The tech giant is establishing data centers in New Albany, Heath and Hebron. The New Albany campus represents a $420 million investment and will be located on a nearly 200-acre site at 3287 Beech Road NW. Microsoft plans to begin construction on the New Albany data center in July 2025, and the project is expected to be completed by the end of 2027. The 245,000-square-foot data center will employ 30 people and is expected to create additional indirect jobs. New Albany City Council approved a 15-year, 100% property tax exemption for the data center at a meeting this month. The Heath and Hebron campuses are pending local approvals. During the build-out phase, Microsoft expects to create as many as 400 construction jobs on an annual basis. At full build-out, each location is projected to employ hundreds of full-time workers." https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2024/10/28/microsoft-data-center-investment-columbus-region.html Looks like the data center bubble might be bursting: BUSINESS Microsoft shelves AI data-center deals in sign of potential oversupply, brokerage says Aditya SoniReuters (Reuters) - Microsoft has scrapped leases for sizeable data center capacity in the U.S., suggesting a potential oversupply at the tech giant as it builds out artificial intelligence infrastructure to meet a possible surge in demand, TD Cowen said. Microsoft previously announced plans to develop three data center campuses in Licking County and invest $1 billion in the initial stage as part of a project that received state tax incentives last year. The campuses were to be developed in New Albany, Heath and Hebron, with one building on each campus at first with the potential for several buildings on each site. https://www.dispatch.com/story/business/2025/02/24/microsoft-shelves-ai-data-center-deals-brokerage-says-tech-news/80055352007/
February 25Feb 25 "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
February 25Feb 25 Author They cancelled leases so Dispatch is assuming this means the sites they own aren't moving forward even though it says its AI plan is still on track?
February 26Feb 26 9 hours ago, aderwent said: They cancelled leases so Dispatch is assuming this means the sites they own aren't moving forward even though it says its AI plan is still on track? They ran with the Reuters story, this is very similar to what happened with Google locally and less than two weeks later they announced they were just diverting it to the south side complex. Just lazy journalism honestly.
April 8Apr 8 Microsoft delays $1B plan to build data centers in Licking County Microsoft is putting its $1 billion plan to build data centers in Licking County on hold, the company confirmed in a statement. “After careful consideration, we will not be moving forward at this time with our plans to build data centers at the Licking County sites," a company spokesperson said in a written statement. The sites are in New Albany, Heath and Hebron, where Microsoft Corp. planned to invest $700 million in facilities and $300 million in machinery, according to past Columbus Business First reporting. Licking County Commissioner Tim Bubb called the news disappointing, but ultimately said he's "not sure Licking County is harmed here." More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2025/04/08/microsoft-delays-data-centers-in-licking-county.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
April 8Apr 8 1 hour ago, ColDayMan said: Microsoft delays $1B plan to build data centers in Licking County Microsoft is putting its $1 billion plan to build data centers in Licking County on hold, the company confirmed in a statement. “After careful consideration, we will not be moving forward at this time with our plans to build data centers at the Licking County sites," a company spokesperson said in a written statement. The sites are in New Albany, Heath and Hebron, where Microsoft Corp. planned to invest $700 million in facilities and $300 million in machinery, according to past Columbus Business First reporting. Licking County Commissioner Tim Bubb called the news disappointing, but ultimately said he's "not sure Licking County is harmed here." More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2025/04/08/microsoft-delays-data-centers-in-licking-county.html Not surprised, but don't see this being any long term issues for the area..
April 8Apr 8 Author "Pushes Back" and "Delays", but the Dispatch headline is "Backs Out". Lazy, incompetent, or just negative? They've already spent hundreds of millions on land. They already have equipment on site in New Albany where they plan to do site work and infrastructure work. They have not backed out.
April 8Apr 8 5 hours ago, aderwent said: "Pushes Back" and "Delays", but the Dispatch headline is "Backs Out". Lazy, incompetent, or just negative? They've already spent hundreds of millions on land. They already have equipment on site in New Albany where they plan to do site work and infrastructure work. They have not backed out. I can't be bothered to read the Dispatch anymore, but I don't think that they're far off the mark. Microsoft is pulling *way* back on AI investments across the board. Whether that's from profitability concerns (most current AI models are nowhere near being profitable and are floating on venture capital) or anticipated construction cost issues or a belief that DeepSeek-style models will need less compute power and therefore far less capacity, but they're halting construction projects throughout the world and pulling the plug on multi-billion dollar contracts. Maybe they'll come back to it, but I have some serious doubts.
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