Sell Land for Data Center Development in Licking County, Ohio

Campuses the companies have described

Google’s Ohio data center page says the company broke ground in New Albany in 2019 and has invested more than $20 billion in the state since then. That $20 billion is statewide, not a Licking County land value.

Meta’s New Albany page says it broke ground in 2017 and cites more than $1.5 billion of data center investment in Ohio, 300+ operational jobs, and 1,200 skilled-trade workers at peak construction, in Franklin and Licking counties.

The City of New Albany said on August 7, 2025 that Amazon had invested $6.2 billion in AWS infrastructure in Licking County from 2015 through 2024, associated that investment with about $1.4 billion of county GDP, and said AWS paid $3.1 million in property taxes and fees in the county in 2024. The city also pointed to a further $3.5 billion New Albany investment Amazon announced in 2023, with two buildings of the newest campus staffed and the rest under construction at the time of the release.

The Governor of Ohio’s office announced a Microsoft project with sites in Heath, Hebron, and New Albany: a $1 billion fixed-asset investment and a 100 percent, 15-year data center sales-tax exemption approved by the Tax Credit Authority. This page does not add acreage or a construction-status claim beyond that release.

The power number that matters more than the campus ribbon-cuttings

AEP Ohio serves this corridor, inside PJM. Its data center tariff, adopted by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio on July 9, 2025 and effective July 23, 2025, applies to new or expanded service of 25 MW and up. Customers pay a study fee, then a letter of agreement and an electric service agreement. Load is studied in tranches. A queue request is not service.

On February 13, 2026 AEP Ohio said that as of February 12, data centers had signed binding contracts for 5,642 MW under that tariff, on top of 12,219 MW signed before the tariff, for 17,861 MW of contracted data center projects scheduled through 2035. AEP Ohio put its own system peak, for all customers, at roughly 8,000 to 10,500 MW. Contracted projects are not energized projects, and they are not a residual you can attach to unsold land.

A September 29, 2026 AEP presentation to PJM’s Load Analysis Subcommittee shows a different cut: cumulative large-load additions for AEP Ohio of 4,980 MW in 2027, rising to 15,574 MW in 2031 and 17,116 MW on an “ultimate” line, counting signed agreements under AEP’s methodology. Do not add that table to the February 17,861 MW figure. They are different dates and different definitions. The queue study walks through the distinction.

If you own the land

• Closest-in New Albany land is widely described as spoken for. Your edge is a specific parcel, a substation distance, and a sale-or-lease preference — not a claim that you are “in the corridor.”
• If you are outside Licking County but still on AEP Ohio, say that. The tariff is a utility rule, not a county border.
• Submit the site after you read the Ohio overview.

Sources

1. Google data centers — Ohio
2. Meta — New Albany
3. City of New Albany, Aug. 7, 2025 — Amazon / Licking County
4. Governor of Ohio — Microsoft project in Heath, Hebron, and New Albany
5. AEP Ohio data center tariff
6. AEP Ohio, Feb. 13, 2026 — contracted load update
7. AEP presentation to PJM Load Analysis Subcommittee, Sept. 29, 2026

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