Google data center, Columbus, Ohio
Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio
Approximate area
Someone has proposed it. Nothing has been approved and nothing is being built.
Status inferred from agw source doc (Sep 9, 2026). No filing states it in as many words.
- Status
- Proposed (inferred)
- Owner
- Capacity
- 303 MW
- Location known to
- Approximate area
- County
- Franklin County
- State
- Ohio
- Electric utility
- Not identified
- Grid operator
- PJM
Location and nearby
Google data center, Columbus, Ohio is on record as proposed in Franklin County, Ohio. A record puts its capacity at 303 MW. 98 other campuses are on record within 25 miles, 10 of them within 5 miles. The nearest is 2.8 mi away, measured between approximate points.
Nearest of each kind: Operating 3.4 mi Under construction 16.8 mi Permitted 2.8 mi Proposed 7.8 mi
Nearest campuses on record
- 2.8 mi approximate
Magellan Enterprises LLC (0125044418)
Permitted · Franklin County, OH
- 2.9 mi approximate
Permitted · Franklin County, OH
- 3.4 mi approximate
Operating · Franklin County, OH
- 3.6 mi approximate
Operating · Franklin County, OH
- 3.8 mi approximate
Operating · Franklin County, OH
- 4.2 mi approximate
Operating · Franklin County, OH
What is on record
Owner
Google Confirmed
The chain
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google first-party locations page lists this site
Google
Google data center locations page (first party) · Sep 9, 2026
Filed by: Google
- Capacity
- 303 MW from agw
- Diesel generators
- No air permit found in the records we collect
- Water
- Not collected. State water withdrawal permits are not in this build.
- Electric utility
- More than one utility serves this county, and no filing we hold names which one
- Also recorded as
- Google · Google Columbus · Google data center, New Albany, Ohio
How the status changed
- Proposed Aug 14, 2026 inferred
AI GridWatch stage/outcome: operating|; source press
- Operating Sep 9, 2026 inferred
Google locations page; county-level placement
- Operating Sep 9, 2026 inferred
Google locations page; county-level placement
About this data
Evidence
Primary record
A government filing, a federal permit, an assessor parcel or the operator’s own page.
Location known to
Approximate area
Approximate. Good enough for a neighbourhood, not for a driveway.
Independent sources
2
cited filing, first party. Directories count once between them, because they copy each other.
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Where this comes from
4 source records back this page. Each row is a document we retrieved and kept, so a claim can be checked against the original.
| Document | Role | Row | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Source cited by AI GridWatch for Google Columbus: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/google-breaks-ground-on-columbus-ohio-data-center/ US-OH | Context | url=https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/google-breaks-ground-on-columbus-ohio-data-center/ | Aug 14, 2026 retrieved by us |
| agw_projects tracker export (AI GridWatch (aigridwatch.com), CC BY 4.0.) US | Context | id=google-columbus | Aug 14, 2026 last changed on the server |
| Google data center locations page (first party) US | Primary | location=Columbus, Ohio | Sep 9, 2026 retrieved by us |
| Google data center locations page (first party) US | Primary | location=New Albany, Ohio | Sep 9, 2026 retrieved by us |
AI GridWatch (aigridwatch.com), CC BY 4.0. Google first-party locations page
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