Project dossier · New Albany, Ohio

Google New Albany Operating

Chip types: TPU v5e,TPU v5p,TPU v6e,TPU v7. Epoch AI estimates ~339 MW.

Key facts

Operator: Google
Owner: Google
Tenant: Google DeepMind
Size: 339 MW
Location: New Albany, Ohio
Stage today: Operating

Source
read 2026-08-14

What to do next

Next step: Already operating — the leverage now is enforcement: noise and water conditions, tax revenue tracking, and any expansion filing, which reopens the record.

Build an action pack for this project →

What has happened so far (13 events)

2018-12-01announcement
In December 2018, Google affiliate Montauk Innovations LLC announced it was considering New Albany for a $600 million data center and acquired over 440 acres in Franklin and Licking counties for $54.5 million. · source
2018-12-01incentive
In December 2018, the Ohio Tax Credit Authority approved a 100%, 15-year sales tax exemption for Google's Montauk Innovations data center project, valued at approximately $43.5 million over the life of the credit and renewable for up to 40 years. · source
2019-11-01construction
Holder Construction broke ground on November 1, 2019 on Google's $600 million data center on 440 acres in New Albany, part of Google's $13 billion 2019 expansion plan for seven new U.S. data centers. · source
2019-11-01incentive
New Albany's incentive package for Google included 100% property tax abatement for 15 years and a waiver of up to $250,000 in building and permitting fees, with a minimum annual revenue generation requirement of $750,000 beginning in 2021. · source
2021-01-01operational
Google's New Albany data center was completed and became operational in 2021, according to property records listing the year built as 2021. · source
2021-08-20announcement
On August 20, 2021, Google announced an additional $1 billion investment to expand its New Albany data center campus and disclosed it had acquired 618 more acres (500 in Columbus, approximately 120 in Lancaster) for potential future data centers, bringing total Ohio acreage to over 1,000. · source
2022-05-24operational
Google launched its Columbus Ohio cloud region (us-east5) on May 24, 2022, its 2nd Midwest region, 10th in North America, and 33rd globally, with three availability zones served by the New Albany data center infrastructure. · source
2023-05-04announcement
On May 4, 2023, Google announced it would build two additional data centers in Columbus and Lancaster, Ohio, expanding beyond its existing New Albany campus to create a trio of Central Ohio facilities. · source
2023-08-29financing
On August 29, 2023, Google announced a $1.7 billion investment to support its three Central Ohio data center campuses in New Albany, Columbus, and Lancaster, bringing cumulative Ohio investment to over $3.7 billion; each facility generates roughly 1,200 construction jobs and several hundred permanent positions. · source
2024-06-18financing
On June 18, 2024, Google announced an additional $2.3 billion investment across its Columbus, New Albany, and Lancaster data center sites, bringing cumulative Ohio spending to over $4.4 billion since 2019. · source
2025-05-01filing
In May 2025, Google subsidiary Montauk Innovations acquired an additional 85-acre parcel on Harrison Road Northwest in New Albany's business park in Licking County for $63 million. · source
2025-11-12utility
On November 12, 2025, TotalEnergies announced a 15-year power purchase agreement to supply Google's Ohio data centers with 1.5 TWh of certified renewable electricity from the Montpelier solar farm in Ohio, connected to the PJM grid. · source
2026-04-02public-comment
On April 2, 2026, the Ohio Ballot Board unanimously approved a petition drive for a constitutional amendment to ban new data centers consuming over 25 MW monthly, requiring 400,000+ signatures by July 2026; the campaign cited New Albany-area data center impacts including rising electric rates and farmland loss. · source

Find the paper trail

Find the paper trail (0 filed · 11 places to look)

State environmental permits

Backup generators, water withdrawal and stormwater are permitted by the state, usually earlier and in more detail than anything filed locally.

Ohio EPA — Division of Air Pollution ControlThe program page: which permits this state requires, and the office that issues them.
Ohio EPA eBusiness Center (Air Services)Searchable public filings — search the operator, the shell LLC on the deed, and the address.

County & town filings

The rezoning application, site plan, traffic and noise studies, staff report and every revision.

Search New Albany planning filingssearchPlanning departments post application files under many different names. Find the department, then ask the clerk for the application number — that number unlocks everything else.
Search New Albany property records / GISsearchThe parcel record names the buying LLC and the sale date, which is what ties an anonymous filing to an operator.

Utility & grid records

The electricity request is filed with the grid operator and the utility long before the town hears about it — and states the real load.

PJM Interconnection (Mid-Atlantic, Ohio Valley) — interconnection queueRequested megawatts, queue position and target in-service date. The MW here is the real number; the one at the town meeting is often phase one.
Public Utilities Commission of Ohio — docket searchSpecial contracts, large-load tariffs and rate cases are docketed here. Testimony and exhibits are public, and are usually more candid than the press release.
FERC eLibraryFederal filings: transmission agreements, interconnection service agreements, and co-location disputes.
Search the serving utility for a will-serve lettersearchThe will-serve or load-service letter is the utility's own written commitment. Ask the utility and the PUC for it by name — it is frequently the first document to exist.

Federal databases

Works anywhere, and covers the operator's record at its other sites.

EPA ECHO facility searchEvery federally-reported air, water and waste permit at a facility, plus its inspection and violation history. Search by address or draw a radius around the site. This project's locality centres on 40.080, -82.790 — search that point with a 5-mile radius.
EPA EnvirofactsThe same underlying records, queryable by county — useful for 'what else is permitted near this site' rather than one facility.
EPA Facility Registry ServiceResolves the shell LLC on a permit to the facility it belongs to. Worth a look when the filing name means nothing locally.

These are places to look, not evidence that anything has been filed. Links were checked on 2026-08-21; search links are queries, not records. What to ask for.

Around here

Ohio briefing — rates, grid carbon, PUC contacts.

Other tracked projects in Ohio

Meta Prometheus — New Albany, 0 mi Operating
Aligned Data Centers - Pataskala industrial park — Pataskala (Licking County), 9 mi Awaiting decision
Google Columbus — Columbus, 16 mi Operating
Google Lancaster — Lancaster, 27 mi Operating
Urbana Technology Hub — Urbana (Champaign County), 51 mi In review

Cite this page: GridWatch AI, “Google New Albany”, aigridwatch.com/projects/google-new-albany, retrieved 2026-10-11.

As of August 2026 (2m ago) · changes weekly — re-check before citing

A working set of identified proposals a community can track, not a census — most of the country's activity is not in here yet. Pennsylvania is the exception: its rows are synced from PA DEP's own data-center permit tracker, so the state's coverage is close to complete and carries the permit trail with it. **Each row carries its own provenance.** Rows showing a verification date link to reporting or the governing body's own record and were read on that date; rows marked *unverified* have no source on record — a lead to check, not a fact to cite. **Stage is derived, not asserted.** *Hearing scheduled*, *Awaiting decision*, *Approved* and *Withdrawn* are computed from each row's milestone dates on every rebuild, so a hearing date that has passed stops reading 'scheduled'. Hearings get moved and projects re-file under new names — treat a scheduled date as the earliest to act by, and confirm with the clerk before relying on it. Leads are mined into data/project_candidates.json and promoted here only after a human reads a primary source.

Part of the data center project tracker — open data, CC BY 4.0 (JSON · CSV).