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Google Lockbourne, OH

Franklin County, OH

Source: OpenStreetMap

Google Lockbourne, OH is a mapped data center in Franklin County, OH, operated by Google LLC and ultimately owned by Alphabet Inc..

Reporting by · Updated Jun 14, 2026

Real parent
Alphabet Inc.
Operator
Google LLC
Utility
Ohio Power Co
Grid
PJM
Attribution & capacity confidence:mediumprimary source
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Dot size = disclosed capacity (MW). Smallest = undisclosed, not small.

Overview

source: link

Google Lockbourne is a mapped data center in Franklin County, Ohio, operated by Google LLC and owned through its parent, Alphabet Inc. The site draws power from Ohio Power Co inside the PJM grid. Available records note it as a Google data center but list no capacity or footprint figures.

Operator chain

In the news

source: GDELT

Tax breaks & subsidies

source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77

These tax breaks are recorded to Alphabet Inc. (the operator/parent) and may cover this or other sites — no state names the recipient at the facility level.

Total to this operator: $31.7M
  • Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project Exemption$0
    State of Texas · granted 2026 · term yr · source
  • Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project Exemption$0
    State of Texas · granted 2025 · term yr · source
  • Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project Exemption$0
    State of Texas · granted 2025 · term yr · source
  • Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project Exemption$0
    State of Texas · granted 2025 · term yr · source
  • Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0
    State of Texas · granted 2025 · term yr · source
  • Chapter 312 — Midlothian Technology Reinvestment Zone No. 14 (City of Midlothian data-center zone)$16,044,286
    Ellis County, TX · granted 2024 · term yr · source
  • Chapter 312 — Midlothian Technology Reinvestment Zone No. 14 (City of Midlothian data-center zone)$15,660,346
    Ellis County, TX · granted 2024 · term yr · source
  • Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project Exemption$0
    State of Texas · granted 2022 · term yr · source
  • Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project Exemption$0
    State of Texas · granted 2018 · term yr · source
Statewide cost of this incentive

Ohio reported $130.4M in Sales/use tax exemption for qualified property used in an eligible computer data center (R.C. § 122.175) for FY2024 (Ohio Department of Taxation / Office of Budget and Management). Program-wide, not attributable to this site.

source · All Ohio subsidies →

Water use

  • Reported consumption63.8K gpd
    2023 · consumption · reported as “Google Lockbourne” · source

EPA permits & violations

source: EPA ECHO

No reported violations as of last sync.

What this site costs the grid

source: PJM RPM auction reports
AEP (Ohio / WV / VA) · 2027/28 auction
$333 /MW-day

PJM's capacity auction sets a $/MW-day price that utilities pass on to every household and business in the zone. This site cleared at the PJM-wide (RTO) price, where soaring data-center demand is a documented driver. See the full zone-by-zone breakdown →

Separately, a typical home in this zone pays an estimated $4 to $10/mo more on the capacity portion of its bill that PJM's market monitor attributes to data-center demand. See your address's full impact →

Air quality near this site

source: AirNow
59
PM2.5
Moderate
44
O3
Good
25
PM10
Good

Air Quality Index from the nearest AirNow reporting area (Columbus), as of 2026-06-10. Regional context — not this facility's own emissions.

Who lives nearby

source: Census ACS 2023
Median household income
$67.8K
People of color
20%
Below poverty
23%
Tract population
5,520

Demographics of the census tract this facility sits in (American Community Survey 5-year estimates). Environmental-justice context for who bears the local impacts.

Nearest school

source: HIFLD / NCES

The nearest public school, Hamilton Middle School in Columbus, is 0.8 mi from this site (533 students). 2 public schools sit within a mile of the site.

Schools are sensitive receptors for the noise, backup-generator exhaust, and traffic a large data center brings. Straight-line distance to the nearest public school (HIFLD/NCES, US public schools only).

Hearings timeline

No public-hearing records linked to this site yet. We surface planning-commission and board-of-supervisors dates when a record names a facility. If you know of a hearing on this site, tell us.