Who owns Project BOSC?

Project BOSC is operated by Google LLC and ultimately owned by Alphabet Inc..

Has Project BOSC had environmental violations?

As of the latest EPA ECHO sync, no enforcement actions are on record for Project BOSC.

Where is Project BOSC located?

Project BOSC is in Lima, Allen County, OH.

Proposed

Project BOSC

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.

Lima, Allen County, OH

Source: Primary source

Project BOSC is a proposed data center in Allen County, OH, operated by Google LLC and ultimately owned by Alphabet Inc..

Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated Jun 18, 2026

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Attribution & capacity confidence:mediumprimary source

Overview

source: link

15-year tax abatement offset agreement, $250,000 in annual funding to Elida Local Schools Announced investment: $0.50. Imported from the FracTracker Alliance U.S. Data Centers Tracker after review. Details to be corroborated from primary sources.

Operator chain

Ultimate parent
Alphabet Inc.
Files as
Google LLC
This facility
Project BOSC

Grid & water — why here

source: HIFLD · EPA

Nearest substation

2.3 mi

Ford Lima · 138 kV

Transmission line

0.3 mi

138 kV line

Municipal water

No service area

self-supplied or unmapped

The closest existing grid infrastructure and the municipal water system this location sits in — the same constraints the buildout model screens on (it won't site a campus more than ~2 km from a substation or ~5 km from municipal water). Distances are straight-line to public HIFLD/EPA features, not a metered connection.

In the news

source: GDELT

Kasich deal gave 40-year data center tax break to Amazon, Google - The Columbus Dispatch
The Columbus Dispatch· Jun 10, 2026

Tax breaks & subsidies

source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77

No per-deal tax break is linked to this site yet. No state discloses the recipient of a data-center abatement at the facility level, so per-site deals are rare in the public record. If you have a development agreement or board resolution for this site, send it to us.

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

No public record of this facility's water use. We check state withdrawal reporting for self-supplied sites; municipally supplied sites only become visible through a public-records request to the local water utility — a per-facility request tool is coming. If you have a utility document for this site, send it to us.

EPA permits & violations

source: EPA ECHO

No reported violations as of last sync.

Nearest school

source: HIFLD / NCES

The nearest public school, Lima North Middle School in Lima, is 3.0 mi from this site (308 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.

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