US EditionTrump Officials Announce 10-Gigawatt Data Center, Gas Plants for Former Ohio Uranium Site
The PORTS Technology Campus will use $33 billion in Japanese funding to build 10 gigawatts of power, including 9.2 GW natural gas, supporting AI infrastructure and thousands of jobs.
- On Friday, the U.S. Department of Energy announced the PORTS Technology Campus in Pike County, Ohio, featuring a $33 billion natural-gas power plant to fuel a proposed $30 billion-plus data center.
- The initiative aligns with the U.S.-Japan Strategic Trade and Investment Agreement announced by President Donald Trump last year, following his recent call for tech companies to develop their own power generation.
- SoftBank, through SB Energy, is partnering with AEP Ohio on a $4.2 billion grid upgrade, with the plant generating 9.2 gigawatts of electricity—enough to power more than half of Ohio—while creating 35,000 construction jobs.
- Beyond the power plant, the $33.3 billion initiative includes $40 million in community donations for schools and roads, with CEO Masayoshi Son claiming the infrastructure will help lower electricity costs for Ohioans by feeding excess capacity into the grid.
- Infrastructure hurdles remain significant: Mike Chadsey of the Ohio Oil and Gas Association noted new pipelines must be built to connect the site, while PJM Interconnection currently faces a backlog of about 5 to 6 years for grid connections.
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Massive $33 billion natural gas power plant breaks ground in Southern Ohio
COLUMBUS, Ohio—Trump cabinet officials were in Southern Ohio on Friday unveiled plans to build a massive $33 billion natural-gas power plant intended to power a proposed $30 billion-plus data center nearby.
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Trump officials announce 10-gigawatt data center, gas plants for former Ohio uranium site
The U.S. Department of Energy has announced a public-private partnership with SoftBank and AEP Ohio to develop a massive artificial intelligence data center and power complex at a former uranium enrichment site in southern Ohio.
U.S. Bets on Natural Gas to Power 10 GW AI Buildout in Ohio
Amid the Iranian war and oil price crisis, the Department of Energy, alongside the Department of Commerce, has unveiled a public-private partnership with SoftBank and AEP Ohio that centers on one thing the AI boom desperately needs but rarely talks about plainly—power. Not theoretical power. Not intermittent power. Real, dispatchable, grid-ready megawatts, mostly from natural gas. At the core of the plan, revealed in a Friday press release, is a…
[Piketon, Joint Report] SoftBank Group (SBG) Chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son announced on the 20th a plan to begin construction of an artificial intelligence (AI) data center in Ohio, in the Midwestern United States, by the end of the year, investing approximately $500 billion (about 80 trillion yen). This is the largest investment ever made in a single location.
The Japanese firm and the U.S. Department of Energy want to build in Pike County a 10 GW data campus supported by 9.2 new generation GW, mostly with natural gas, on the grounds of the old Portsmouth nuclear complex.
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