The Coming Out Party for the Country’s Largest Gas Power Plant (Serving the Largest Data Center) Was Surprisingly Quiet
A developer hosted the first open house for a gigantic Ohio project, with no signs of organized resistance.
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On Development: The cloud is still made of concrete
The ongoing data center construction boom has our columnist asking himself some questions.
Opinion: To meet climate goals, Columbus leaders must address data centers
With the City Council presenting its draft proposal for municipal data center policy this week, residents must seize the moment to demand meaningful safeguards that will actually minimize the climate impacts of data centers.
Notes on a cross-country Amtrak
With Ohio considering expanding train access, our columnist reports on a summer spent riding the rails.
On Development: More local voices needed
The city needs to find ways to support economic development and build more housing without so readily awarding tax breaks, and that means bringing in new perspectives.
In Ohio, who really gets a say in Anduril weapons factories?
Newly released emails show the strength of Anduril’s legislative influence in Ohio.
Local Politics: The small-time data center resistance
A petition to ban data centers statewide won’t be going to the ballot this year. So organizers are working locally instead.
On Development: Progressive tax policy in Ohio?!? Maybe
It’s very easy for owners to pay low taxes on decaying properties while waiting for somebody else to begin a resurgence. A proposed move to a land tax would make it harder for these squatters to wait.
Opinion: The politics of abandonment and the future of district representation in Columbus
At-large voting has produced a culture of auto-pilot governance by electeds who acquiesce to the demands of the donor class instead of their constituents, the most recent example of which is the handover of McCoy Park to the Haslam Sports Group.
Used Kids Records owner Greg Hall purchases Musicol
‘And I think the people who have been around the music scene, particularly, see [Musicol] as a beacon, as a legacy institution here in Columbus’
On Development: The cloud is still made of concrete
The ongoing data center construction boom has our columnist asking himself some questions.
Opinion: To meet climate goals, Columbus leaders must address data centers
With the City Council presenting its draft proposal for municipal data center policy this week, residents must seize the moment to demand meaningful safeguards that will actually minimize the climate impacts of data centers.
Notes on a cross-country Amtrak
With Ohio considering expanding train access, our columnist reports on a summer spent riding the rails.
On Development: More local voices needed
The city needs to find ways to support economic development and build more housing without so readily awarding tax breaks, and that means bringing in new perspectives.
In Ohio, who really gets a say in Anduril weapons factories?
Newly released emails show the strength of Anduril’s legislative influence in Ohio.
Local Politics: The small-time data center resistance
A petition to ban data centers statewide won’t be going to the ballot this year. So organizers are working locally instead.
On Development: Progressive tax policy in Ohio?!? Maybe
It’s very easy for owners to pay low taxes on decaying properties while waiting for somebody else to begin a resurgence. A proposed move to a land tax would make it harder for these squatters to wait.
Opinion: The politics of abandonment and the future of district representation in Columbus
At-large voting has produced a culture of auto-pilot governance by electeds who acquiesce to the demands of the donor class instead of their constituents, the most recent example of which is the handover of McCoy Park to the Haslam Sports Group.
Used Kids Records owner Greg Hall purchases Musicol
‘And I think the people who have been around the music scene, particularly, see [Musicol] as a beacon, as a legacy institution here in Columbus’