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Amazon spends $102 million in Ohio for data center land. Are server farms, data centers the same?
Believe it or not, there is a difference between a data center and a server farm. And with Amazon planning more data centers in central Ohio, we take a look at the largest such facilities here.
Amazon invests $10 billion in Ohio data centers to drive AI evolution
Amazon is adding to its major Midwest technology hub investment while helping to shape the future of artificial intelligence.
Straight Arrow News
Did you know Ohio is a data hub for major companies like Google and Meta? Within the next two years, it will also become home to more data centers for companies like Microsoft and Amazon.
What is a data center? Is it the same as a server farm? Let’s look at the difference.
Amazon will have a major data center campus in Jeffersonville, Ohio
According to a story by The Dispatch, Amazon is to build a 590-acre data center campus in Jeffersonville, Ohio, after the company bought two parcels of land there for $102 million. The land for Amazon’s data centers is in Fayette County, next to Honda and LG’s battery plant.
By 2030, properties bought by Amazon will represent the first site of Amazon Web Services’ planned $10 billion investment in data centers across Ohio.
Amazon will continue to expand its data center infrastructure across Ohio. Amazon already has data center locations in New Albany, Hilliard and Dublin, The Dispatch reports.
What’s the difference between a data center and a server farm?
The terms “data center” and “server farm” are often used interchangeably, but they’re actually quite different from each other.
According to Gigabyte, a server farm refers to a collection of servers, sometimes up to a thousand, that are grouped together to provide better functionality and accessibility.
A data center is a dedicated facility designed to store these collections. It includes systems for cooling, ventilation, and fire suppression to ensure continuous availability.
Other notable data centers in Ohio
These are the biggest data centers by square footage in Ohio, according to The Dispatch:
- Meta (Facebook), 1 Community Circle, New Albany: 970,000 square feet
- Amazon, 2570 Beech Rd., New Albany: 459,000
- Amazon, 5109 Hayden Run Road., Hilliard: 318,464
- Amazon, Crosby Business Park, Dublin: 318,448
- Google, 1101 Beech Run SW, New Albany: 275,000
- Citi, 306 Greif Parkway, Delaware: 271,562
- Spirit Realty Capital, 4499 Fisher Road, Columbus: 205,339
- Amazon, Crosby Business Park, Dublin: 159,244
- Amazon, Crosby Business Park, Dublin: 159,244
- Cologix, 555 & 575 Scherers Ct., Columbus: 155,000
STRYKER, Ohio (WKRC) – An Ohio woman allegedly broke into her ex-husband’s home while he was sleeping and threatened to kill him before opening fire.
According to a criminal complaint obtained by Law&Crime, 31-year-old Amanda Heller broke into a man’s home on April 26. The man was identified as Heller’s ex-husband by local outlet WTOL.
After the victim woke up, Heller allegedly threatened to kill him before taking out a handgun and firing twice.
No injuries were reported in connection to the shooting, Law&Crime reported. Nobody else was in the home at the time of the incident, authorities reported.
Heller was arrested and charged with felonious assault, attempted aggravated murder, aggravated burglary, domestic violence, and improperly discharging a weapon at or into a habitation or school.
AI influencers are all over your feed
AI influencers may not change minds — but they can amplify division and inflame political tensions online.
We can’t believe our eyes
Re “AI political ads bring fears over ’26 election,” May 27: I fully support House Bill 185. It probably doesn’t go far enough. This is a prime example of “don’t believe everything you see on the Internet.”
I am being inundated with emails and text messages from organizations and people I do not know. I block them as spam, but it doesn’t seem to do any good. About the only way to combat this is to attend a live debate between candidates, but most people do not have the time to do that.
I use AI every day with caution. We need better ways of identifying AI-created falsehoods.
Edwin Heller, Dublin
Tell voters what’s real
Re “AI political ads bring fears over ’26 election,” May 27: I don’t think AI should be used in political ads, but there is no way to stop it.What we can and should do is require campaigns to certify that their ad did or did not use AI to generate or edit content that:
- Makes a real person appear to say or do something they didn’t say or do.
- Alters footage of a real event or place.
- Generates a realistic-looking scene that didn’t actually occur.
We grade movie content. Why not political advertising? The public needs a way to help distinguish truth from fiction.
Richard Wires, Columbus
Ban political ads, already
Re “AI political ads bring fears over ’26 election,” May 27: Political ads should be banned. Those using – AI-generated or not. I don’t trust anything I read online anymore, and especially political ads.
People read/see those ads, don’t research the information in them, and vote according to, oftentimes, the misinformation in those ads. The huge amounts of money being spent on ads is sinful!
Lyn Miller, Smithville
Food cuts hurt hungry families
While President Donald Trump and Republicans continually find new ways to enrich their billionaire funders and friends, they’ve made the largest cuts to SNAP in history, making it more difficult for over 40 million Americans, including 16 million children and 8 million seniors, to access healthy foods and forcing them to rely on the cheapest foods (usually the most ultra-processed}.
They’re especially hurting American children and setting them up for worse health outcomes than previous generations by making it harder for them to access healthy foods.
They’ve cut funding to support farm-to-school programs and food banks, passed the largest cut to food assistance in history, and are pushing to end the decades-old practice of putting fluoride in water to reduce tooth decay. Most appalling, they’ve even allowed food companies to use cancer-causing chemicals in snack foods targeted to children.
Meanwhile, they’ve allowed food companies to take advantage of inflation to raise prices to increase their profits. A Kroger executive suggested that inflation is good for business when he testified the chain has hiked the milk and eggs prices beyond the costs from inflation.
This is one more reason that we must do all we can to get Republicans out of office.
Russ Smith, Strongsville
TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) – The FBI was part of a search of multiple properties related to Stansley Mining on Friday, a spokesperson for the agency confirmed.
A Public Affairs Officer for the FBI Cleveland Division confirmed to the 13 Action News I-TEAM that authorities searched a business in the area of Siliva Road in Sylvania, as well as property in Ottawa County by State Route 590 in Benton Township.
Officials with the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation told the 13 Action News I-TEAM that they executed a search warrant at the property in Benton Township. Ohio BCI’s environmental division and the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency were involved in the search.
It’s unclear exactly what officials were looking for. The FBI spokesperson said there wasn’t additional information to share at this point, but added there is no threat to the public.
Stansley Mining is the entity that owns Rocky Ridge Development, a company at the center of extensive 13 Action News coverage after its South Toledo mining operation was improperly working in a residentially-zoned area.
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