Google Data Center, Council Bluffs, Iowa, via Wikimedia Commons. Until recently, a petition to ban data centers in Ohio was getting excitedly passed around in media outlets and online forums. The petition needed to reach 413,000 signatures by July 1 in order to make it onto the ballot for the 2026 general election. And, if it did, and if it passed, it would lead to no more new large data centers anywhere in the state. That’s something that a lot…
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