Ohio Voters Banned Data Centers in Ten Towns by Landslides, Fired the Officials Who Signed the Deals, and Ousted the Senator They Called 'the Face of Data Centers'
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On Election Day, voters in at least 14 Ohio municipalities passed data center bans or restrictions, most by 67 to 82 percent, including Sunbury, where Amazon's $2 billion campus was planned, and Trenton, where the ban blocks a 1,000-megawatt Amazon annexation. Piqua and Urbana recalled their mayors over data center deals, Ashville voters repealed a council deal passed under an emergency clause, and Democrat Sherrod Brown unseated Sen. Jon Husted after a campaign that branded him 'the face of data centers.'
