Here is the area of the entire Chrysler Jeep campus in Toledo(below). It's approximately 400 acres if you remove the county owned easements. Everyone in Northwest Ohio knows how big that campus is. It takes about a minute to drive past it at 70mph on I-75. Its a huge facitlity.
If you remove the parking for the new vehicles and leave just the factory its about 220 acres (below again).
For perspective:
The Bowling Green Ohio Meta Owned Data Center in rural Middleton Township is 280 acres
Thats Bigger than Jeep
The Proposed Richfield Township Data Center was going to be about 1280 acres with the needed infrastructure (that was shut down by residents that became aware of the zoning meeting and showed up at the meeting. yes regular people did that)
Thats Bigger than Jeep by X3 or x4
Proposed Fayette Ohio Solar Field would be 450 acres
Bigger than Jeep by x2
So how's about an industrial property roughly the size of the entire Toledo Jeep campus in every township in Northwest Ohio and in your backyard? Why not 2x or 4x that size? 🤔 This and many other reasons might be why you see the "NO DATA CENTER" signs popping up everywhere, even after the election. Maybe this is the reason for so many discussions on Facebook about these monstrosities. Its becoming clear that people don't really have a problem with Data Centers or AI at all but they were not made to be aware of the size and scope of these projects, not to mention the additional costs involved which includes living around massive industrial facilities, they dont want them in their back yards. Again, Lucas County officials did not deem it necessary that residents be made reasonably aware of these costs and did not include them in the process. This raises questions of constitutional authority and legal questions from there.
The latest resident driven meeting about Data Centers will be on Thursday at Bunkers Banquet Hall on Thursday November 13 at 7pm. This will be put on by Monclova, Waterville and Spencer Township residents. The people from Richfield who shut the favorable zoning down in Richfield Township will be keynote Speakers including newly elected Trustee Vicky Loeffler. They will likely share as much information as they can about how Data Centers impact communities as well as calling for moratoriums and bans throughout the area until residents can grasp what exactly having a data center in their community entails. They will also be doing a Q&A for anyone who has more questions and have a large stock of the now popular yard signs available for residents.
There is a reason that people live outside of the city and then bother to drive into the cities for work. To people in suburbs and rural areas "HOME" means rest away from the industrialized nature of a city and they don't seem to want to bring that atmosphere into their neighborhoods and onto their fields or their horizons. They feel jipped that State, County, and Local officials have done so much work without making it clear what their intentions were. They were not included in the process. Language like "advanced manufacturing" inserted into zoning codes seems like a lie to any reasonable person when you consider that very few people knew what that meant even 6 months ago long after all these zoning changes were well on their way to approval.
