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AWS New Albany Campus 2

Licking County, OH

AWS New Albany Campus 2 is a mapped data center in Licking County, OH, operated by Amazon Data Services, Inc. and ultimately owned by Amazon.com, Inc.. DataCentersExposed has documented 800 MW of reported power capacity at this site.

Reporting by · Updated Jun 14, 2026

Real parent
Amazon.com, Inc.
Operator
Amazon Data Services, Inc.
Power
800 MW
Utility
AEP Ohio
Grid
PJM
Attribution & capacity confidence:mediumprovenance JSON
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Most sites are mapped — located but awaiting a second source. How we verify

Dot size = disclosed capacity (MW). Smallest = undisclosed, not small.

Overview

AWS New Albany Campus 2 is a hyperscale data center in Licking County, Ohio, operated by Amazon Data Services, Inc., a subsidiary ultimately owned by Amazon.com, Inc. Operational since 2022, the campus carries a reported power capacity of 800 MW, drawing electricity from AEP Ohio within the PJM grid. The site is currently mapped.

Operator chain

Tax breaks & subsidies

source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77

These tax breaks are recorded to Amazon.com, Inc. (the operator/parent) and may cover this or other sites — no state names the recipient at the facility level.

Total to this operator: $16.7M
  • Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project Exemption$0
    State of Texas · granted 2026 · term yr · source
  • Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project Exemption$0
    State of Texas · granted 2026 · term yr · source
  • Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project Exemption$0
    State of Texas · granted 2026 · term yr · source
  • Long-Term Rural Enterprise Zone (Morrow County School District 1)$16,668,806
    Morrow County School District 1, OR · granted 2024 · term yr · source
  • Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0
    State of Texas · granted 2024 · term yr · source
  • Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0
    State of Texas · granted 2021 · term yr · source
  • Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0
    State of Texas · granted 2021 · term yr · source
  • Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0
    State of Texas · granted 2021 · term yr · source
Statewide cost of this incentive

Ohio reported $130.4M in Sales/use tax exemption for qualified property used in an eligible computer data center (R.C. § 122.175) for FY2024 (Ohio Department of Taxation / Office of Budget and Management). Program-wide, not attributable to this site.

source · All Ohio subsidies →

Water use

Modeled estimate~15M gpd
Direct (onsite cooling)
~7.3M gpd
Indirect (its electricity)
~7.7M gpd

No measured record exists, so this is a low-confidence model from 800 MW (disclosed IT power): 1.8 L/kWh cooling (temperate climate) + 0.5 gal/kWh embedded in PJM grid mix. How we estimate. Have a utility document? Send it and we'll replace this with the real figure.

EPA permits & violations

source: EPA ECHO

No reported violations as of last sync.

What this site costs the grid

source: PJM RPM auction reports
AEP (Ohio / WV / VA) · 2027/28 auction
$333 /MW-day

PJM's capacity auction sets a $/MW-day price that utilities pass on to every household and business in the zone. This site cleared at the PJM-wide (RTO) price, where soaring data-center demand is a documented driver. See the full zone-by-zone breakdown →

This site's capacity-market cost
$97.2M/yr

800 MW of load at the zone's $333/MW-day, annualized — the capacity charge a load this size carries at the current auction price.

Separately, a typical home in this zone pays an estimated $4 to $10/mo more on the capacity portion of its bill that PJM's market monitor attributes to data-center demand. See your address's full impact →

Air quality near this site

source: AirNow
59
PM2.5
Moderate
44
O3
Good
25
PM10
Good

Air Quality Index from the nearest AirNow reporting area (Columbus), as of 2026-06-10. Regional context — not this facility's own emissions.

Who lives nearby

source: Census ACS 2023
Median household income
$197.9K
People of color
27%
Below poverty
2%
Tract population
5,866

Demographics of the census tract this facility sits in (American Community Survey 5-year estimates). Environmental-justice context for who bears the local impacts.

Nearest school

source: HIFLD / NCES

The nearest public school, New Albany Primary School in New Albany, is 1.7 mi from this site (1,060 students).

Schools are sensitive receptors for the noise, backup-generator exhaust, and traffic a large data center brings. Straight-line distance to the nearest public school (HIFLD/NCES, US public schools only).

Hearings timeline

No public-hearing records linked to this site yet. We surface planning-commission and board-of-supervisors dates when a record names a facility. If you know of a hearing on this site, tell us.