{"id":77917,"date":"2026-08-26T07:55:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T12:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/26\/hope-and-concern-swirls-for-ohioans-around-worlds-largest-datacenter\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T07:55:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T12:55:14","slug":"hope-and-concern-swirls-for-ohioans-around-worlds-largest-datacenter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/26\/hope-and-concern-swirls-for-ohioans-around-worlds-largest-datacenter\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope and concern swirls for Ohioans around \u2018world\u2019s largest datacenter\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Piketon datacenter promises to generate thousands of jobs, but environmental groups voice concern over project<\/p>\n<p>On a winding road tucked away behind forests in the Appalachian foothills of southern Ohio is where OpenAI, Nvidia and Japanese investors are set to spend $500bn on one of the largest artificial intelligence datacenters on the planet.<\/p>\n<p>Last March, the energy secretary, Chris Wright, the commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick and a host of Japanese and other dignitaries<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ai-data-center-ohio-uranium-enrichment-4667fa1442ec1c652228337ab4eb68ee\"> briefly descended on Piketon<\/a> to enthusiastically break ground on a project to build 8GW worth of AI computing power.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/26\/ohio-datacenter-reaction\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Piketon datacenter promises to generate thousands of jobs, but environmental groups voice concern over project On a winding road tucked away behind forests in the Appalachian foothills of southern Ohio is where OpenAI, Nvidia and Japanese investors are set to spend $500bn on one of the largest artificial intelligence datacenters on the planet. Last March, &#8230; <a title=\"Hope and concern swirls for Ohioans around \u2018world\u2019s largest datacenter\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/26\/hope-and-concern-swirls-for-ohioans-around-worlds-largest-datacenter\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Hope and concern swirls for Ohioans around \u2018world\u2019s largest datacenter\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}