Ohio Consumers' Counsel attorney Bill Michael's line of questioning on Tuesday suggested companies like Amazon, Meta and Microsoft can afford to pay their fair share, when it comes to purchasing electricity.

A local Avon business found several Amazon packages in their dumpster on Friday, according to the Avon Police Department.

Ohio is giving tech companies generous tax breaks, often amounting to millions more than the corporations are planning to invest toward Ohio workers. Ohio’s “Silicon Heartland” has brought in billions of dollars in investments from major names in the tech industry,

Anduril Industries will build a five-million-square-foot facility called Arsenal-1, hoping to bring more than 4,000 new production and service jobs to Ohio by 2035.

Online retailer Amazon said Monday it will displace 432 of 500 workers at its Findlay sorting center in March as the company makes more than $20 million in improvements at the facility over six to eight months.

One of the largest financial land sales in Fayette County was finalized within the last few weeks. Amazon Data Services, Inc. purchased 589.843 acres in Jefferson Township for over $102 million as the location of its new data center campus.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has purchased a parcel of land for its $2 billion data center campus in Sunbury, Ohio. As reported by The Columbus Dispatch, the tech giant paid £44,374,040 ($53.9 million) for the parcel of land located at 11793 Vans Valley Road on December 30, 2024.

He emphasized the urgency of the matter, noting that data centers are enormous electricity consumers, potentially driving up utility costs for Ohio residents and businesses while posing challenges to climate change mitigation efforts.

As Ohio entices yet more data centers, a watchdog group is raising important questions about whether that's good for average Ohioans, noting the relatively small number of jobs created and the extremely high demand on electricity and the grid.

Behind the dozens of new data centers in Ohio is an exponentially growing demand for electricity, triggering a fight over who will pay for hundreds of millions in costs that enable an increasingly online world.

WADSWORTH, Ohio ( WJW) – An Amazon semi-truck rolled onto its side after sliding into a ditch on Interstate 76. The crash happened at about midnight on Wednesday near State Route 94 in Wadsworth. FOX 8 video from the scene shows snowy road conditions and it did not appear any packages or boxes spilled from the truck.

Among them are whether the state is giving up too much in tax revenue for the number of jobs they’ll create, who will pay to add electricity generation to meet the centers’ surging demand, and whether the new demand will force fossil-fuel burning generators to stay online, making the world’s climate crisis worse.