Bewohner des ländlichen Ohio wollen Rechenzentren durch eine Verfassungsänderung verbieten
https://www.cleveland.com/news/2026/03/rural-ohioans-seek-to-ban-data-centers-through-constitutional-amendment.html
Bewohner des ländlichen Ohio wollen Rechenzentren durch eine Verfassungsänderung verbieten
https://www.cleveland.com/news/2026/03/rural-ohioans-seek-to-ban-data-centers-through-constitutional-amendment.html
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Key points from the article:
>A group of rural Ohioans says they have little control over the spread of large data centers, and they want to amend the state’s constitution to ban those larger than 25 megawatts.
>“My biggest concern is because I love Adams County,” Nikki Gerber said. “What it feels like they are doing is just taking advantage of the unzoned rural areas of Ohio, where they can go ahead and put in whatever they want.”
>Gerber and a handful of residents from Adams and Brown counties gathered about 1,800 signatures in eight days to start the ballot process.
>State law requires at least 1,000 valid voter signatures to begin the process. The petitions must also include the full text of the proposed amendment and a summary explaining what it would do.
>Supporters would then need to gather about 413,000 valid signatures by July to place the amendment before voters this November.
>Ten years ago, a 30-megawatt data center was considered large, according to an analysis from McKinsey & Company. Today, facilities using 200 megawatts or more are becoming common, driven by the rapid growth of artificial intelligence.
>A 25-megawatt limit would effectively block most modern data centers from being built in Ohio.
>“Pretty close to a complete ban,” Buckeye Institute research fellow Greg Lawson said. “It’s a terrible idea. It would definitely shut down all the hyperscalers.”
Lol people in unzoned areas who do whatever complaining about people doing whatever in unzoned areas.
Maybe get some zoning going and then rip out whatever yall have that doesnt match the new codes.
NIMBYs who all use the products they pretend that they don’t use.
Well, a good start would be for them to stop voting for the party trying to shove it down their throats.
Is somebody concerned about the relationship between AI deployment and human unemployment?
This is the way to go!
They better be careful, corporations can sue and will win, via the Commerce Clause, and taxpayers will be on the hook to payout any legal fees associated with it – See: [A Northern MI township of 6,000 residents must pay $50 million in wineries lawsuit](https://www.michiganpublic.org/politics-government/2025-08-10/a-northern-mi-township-of-6-000-residents-must-pay-50-million-in-wineries-lawsuit)
States can’t outright ban specific industries just because they feel like it.
Restrict their water use and make the companies building them also pay for the extra electricity generation that is needed. Make as much of that electricity renewable as possible. They make these gigantic buildings and don’t cover the roofs with solar panels. Crazy. A constitutional amendment seems like a bad idea though. Future may make them wish they had data capacity.
There are so many more reasonable ways to address this without going straight for the nuclear option of a constitutional amendment.
Data centers should pay taxes. These are the same rural Ohioans that don’t want to pay any land tax, and universally want to ban all development, roads, rail, solar, wind, housing – you name it. Just because they stickered the hot button on the movement doesn’t mean it’s not malicious. These guys are anti-human and the most selfish people imaginable.
„horseshoe makers demand ford not sell model t’s in ohio“
Ah ah ah… No local laws against AI. Enjoy what you voted for, Ohio!
We passed a constitutional amendment for weed and abortion, how’s that working out for us?