Hope and Concern Swirls for Ohioans Around 'World's Largest Datacenter'

On a winding road tucked away behind forests in the Appalachian foothills of southern Ohio, OpenAI, Nvidia, and Japanese investors are set to spend $500bn on what is described as one of the largest artificial intelligence datacenters on the planet. Last March, energy secretary Chris Wright, commerce secretary Howard Lutnick, and a host of Japanese and other dignitaries briefly descended on Piketon to enthusiastically break ground on the project, which aims to build 8GW worth of AI computing power. While the Piketon datacenter promises to generate thousands of jobs, environmental groups have voiced concerns over the massive project.