How much power does Meta New Albany use?

Meta New Albany has a reported power capacity of 420 MW.

Has Meta New Albany had environmental violations?

As of the latest EPA ECHO sync, no enforcement actions are on record for Meta New Albany.

Where is Meta New Albany located?

Meta New Albany is in Licking County, OH.

Mapped (unverified)hyperscale

Meta New Albany

Q: Who owns Meta New Albany?

Meta New Albany is operated by Facebook USA, Inc. and ultimately owned by Meta Platforms, Inc..

Q: What do data center tax breaks cost in Ohio?

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). That is a statewide program figure, not attributable to one site.

Licking County, OH

Meta New Albany is a mapped data center in Licking County, OH, operated by Facebook USA, Inc. and ultimately owned by Meta Platforms, Inc.. DataCentersExposed has documented 420 MW of reported power capacity at this site.

Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated Jun 14, 2026

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Power

420 MW

Utility

AEP Ohio

Grid

PJM

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Overview

Meta New Albany is a hyperscale data center in Licking County, Ohio, operated by Facebook USA, Inc. and ultimately owned by Meta Platforms, Inc. Operational since 2019, the site draws a reported 420 MW of power, served by AEP Ohio and running within the PJM grid.

Operator chain

Ultimate parent
Meta Platforms, Inc.
Files as
Facebook USA, Inc.
This facility
Meta New Albany

In the news

source: Google News

Tax breaks & subsidies

source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77

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

Dollar value not disclosed for this record.

Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project Exemption$0
State of Texas · granted 2022 · 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.

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Water use

Modeled estimate~7.9M gpd

Direct (onsite cooling)

~3.8M gpd

Indirect (its electricity)

~4M gpd

No measured record exists, so this is a low-confidence model from 420 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

$51M/yr

420 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

PM2.5

Moderate

Good

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

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 0.9 mi from this site (1,060 students). 2 public schools sit within a mile of the site.

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.