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DataCentersExposed
County data-center profile

Licking County, Ohio

DataCentersExposed tracks 9 AI data centers in Licking County, Ohio — 0 operating and 2 in the pipeline, drawing 2.0 GW of reported power demand, led by Amazon.com, Inc.. Its transparent data-center risk score is 1/100.

Sources: Methodology, Coverage scorecard

Licking County, Ohio has 9 tracked data centers and 2 in the development pipeline. Its composite data-center risk score is 53 out of 100 — see the breakdown above for which factors drive it.

Facilities
9
Operating
0
Pipeline
2

Reporting by · Updated May 29, 2026

Risk breakdown
53High
  • Project exposure · 42
  • Power demand · 67
  • Water draw · n/a
  • Land footprint · n/a
Overview

What's happening in Licking County

Facilities here with disclosed capacity draw 2.0 GW from the local grid. Data-center load on this scale is the single biggest driver of recent capacity-market price increases — costs that flow through to every ratepayer in the service territory, not just the operators.

Amazon.com, Inc. has the largest presence in Licking County. We resolve project codenames and shell LLCs back to the corporate parent wherever the public record allows, so the table below names who is actually behind each site.

Below: every tracked facility in the county, the active state legislation that names it or its county, and local news. Commissioner vote records arrive in a later release; the placeholders show where that accountability data will land.

9 facilities

Every tracked facility

FacilityOperatorStatusMW
AWS New Albany Campus 3 (expansion)Amazon.com, Inc.Under construction1,100
Microsoft Licking County Campus 1Microsoft CorporationPermitted900
Amazon Web Services CMH53Amazon.com, Inc.Mapped (unverified)
MetaMeta Platforms, Inc.Mapped (unverified)
MetaMeta Platforms, Inc.Mapped (unverified)
MetaMeta Platforms, Inc.Mapped (unverified)
QTS Nal 2 Dc2
New Albany
QTS Realty Trust, LLCMapped (unverified)
QTS Nal1 Dc1
New Albany
QTS Realty Trust, LLCMapped (unverified)
Vantage Building 3
New Albany
Vantage Data Centers Holdings, LLCMapped (unverified)
Accountability

County commissioners

How the Licking County board votes on each data-center matter — the rezonings, the abatements, the water permits — is built from public-meeting minutes and roll-call records. Know of a vote we should be tracking? Tell us.

Methodology & sources

The risk score weights project exposure (40%), power demand (30%), water draw (15%), and land footprint (15%). Water and land are not yet measured for our facilities, so those arcs render as "not yet measured" and the weights are renormalized over the factors we can source today — when the data lands, the score updates.

Every row carries a confidence level (high / medium / low) and a source URL. Spot an error? Tell us.