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Lumen Cleveland

Cuyahoga County, OH

Source: OpenStreetMap

Lumen Cleveland is a mapped data center in Cuyahoga County, OH, operated by Lumen Technologies, Inc.. DataCentersExposed has documented a 29,490 sq ft footprint at this site.

Reporting by · Updated Jun 14, 2026

Real parent
Lumen Technologies, Inc.
Operator
Lumen Technologies, Inc.
Est. capacity
~5-15 MW
Footprint
29,490 sq ft
Utility
City of Cleveland
Grid
PJM
Attribution & capacity confidence:mediumprimary source

Overview

source: link

data center

Operator chain

Grid & water — why here

source: HIFLD · EPA
Nearest substation
1.1 mi
Unknown154999
Transmission line
0.2 mi
138 kV line
Municipal water
Served
Cleveland Public Water System

The closest existing grid infrastructure and the municipal water system this location sits in — the same constraints the buildout model screens on (it won't site a campus more than ~2 km from a substation or ~5 km from municipal water). Distances are straight-line to public HIFLD/EPA features, not a metered connection.

Data-center discussions in Cuyahoga County

source: LocalView (CC0)

Local-government meetings in this county that discussed data centers, each cued to the moment. From the public LocalView corpus of government meetings on YouTube — a county-level signal, not necessarily about this specific site.

East Cleveland City Council
Aug 31, 2016 · 1 data-center mention

Tax breaks & subsidies

source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77

No per-deal tax break is linked to this site yet. No state discloses the recipient of a data-center abatement at the facility level, so per-site deals are rare in the public record. If you have a development agreement or board resolution for this site, send it to us.

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

No public record of this facility's water use. We check state withdrawal reporting for self-supplied sites; municipally supplied sites only become visible through a public-records request to the local water utility — a per-facility request tool is coming. If you have a utility document for this site, send it to us.

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 →

This site's capacity-market cost (estimated)
$607.7K to $1.8M/yr

An estimated ~5 to 15 MW of load at the zone's $333/MW-day, annualized — the capacity charge a load this size carries at the current auction price. Estimated from the building footprint at 200 to 400 W/ft² (the typical range for modern data centers). A rough order-of-magnitude figure, not a metered or permitted capacity.

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
51
O3
Moderate
50
PM2.5
Good
29
PM10
Good

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

Who lives nearby

source: Census ACS 2023
Median household income
$34K
People of color
71%
Below poverty
23%
Tract population
1,400

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, University Of Cleveland Preparatory School in Cleveland, is 420 ft from this site (189 students). 15 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.

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