Has OpenAI Stargate Lordstown had environmental violations?

As of the latest EPA ECHO sync, no enforcement actions are on record for OpenAI Stargate Lordstown.

Where is OpenAI Stargate Lordstown located?

OpenAI Stargate Lordstown is in WARREN, Trumbull County, OH.

ProposedhyperscaleAI / GPU compute

OpenAI Stargate Lordstown

Q: What do data center tax breaks cost in Ohio?

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). That is a statewide program figure, not attributable to one site.

"A piece of OpenAI's $500 billion Stargate, planted in Ohio's Rust Belt."

2300 HALLOCK YOUNG RD, WARREN, OH, 44481 · WARREN, Trumbull County, OH

Source: Primary source

OpenAI Stargate Lordstown is a proposed data center in Trumbull County, OH, operated by OpenAI.

Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated Jun 17, 2026

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Real parent

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Operator

OpenAI

Utility

Ohio Edison Co

Grid

PJM

Attribution & capacity confidence:mediumprimary source

Overview

source: link

This site is one node of Stargate, the up-to-$500 billion compute buildout announced by OpenAI with Oracle and SoftBank, sited in the Lordstown and Warren area of northeast Ohio, a region better known for the auto plant General Motors closed in 2019.

Public detail on the Lordstown node remains thin compared with Stargate's flagship campus in Abilene, Texas, so capacity and timeline figures should be treated as preliminary. What is consistent is the pattern: enormous power demand on a PJM grid served by Ohio Edison, landed in a community hungry for the jobs and tax base that manufacturing left behind.

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Operator chain

Files as
OpenAI
This facility
OpenAI Stargate Lordstown

Known aliases: OpenAI Stargate UAE · OpenAI Stargate Lordstown

Grid & water — why here

source: HIFLD · EPA

Nearest substation

0.5 mi

Unknown136904 · 138 kV

Transmission line

0.5 mi

345 kV line

Municipal water

Served

Lordstown Village Pws (modeled boundary)

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.

In the news

source: GDELT

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 →

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

Good

PM2.5

Good

PM10

Good

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

Who lives nearby

source: Census ACS 2023

Median household income

$64.5K

People of color

Below poverty

Tract population

3,329

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, Lordstown High School in Warren, is 1.9 mi from this site (193 students).

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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