1+ hour, 38+ min ago  (385+ words) Ohio lawmakers grilled lobbyists with Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft for hours Thursday, and while the Joint Data Center Committee hearing stretched into the afternoon, its members said they adjourned with some questions unanswered. The four lobbyists each defended the…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (380+ words) Ohio is one of the top states for data centers, with around 200 already built and more on the way. But people around those facilities and future sites are sounding the alarm about their land and water use, utility costs and…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago  (337+ words) Cleveland could become the latest Ohio city to ban new data centers. Councilmember Charles Slife has introduced legislation that would place a one-year moratorium on new permits for data centers within city limits, calling them "exploitative" of residents. "Economic development…...

2+ mon, 1+ day ago  (945+ words) In 2017, Matthew Herrick sued the dating app Grindr after his ex-boyfriend used fake profiles to harass Herrick and send hundreds of strangers to his home. Herrick's lawyer, Carrie Goldberg, argued that Grindr had made a defective product, because the company…...

2+ mon, 1+ day ago  (323+ words) Several rural southwest Ohio residents trying to get a proposed constitutional amendment on the November ballot banning large-scale data centers have cleared a hurdle. They still have a ways to go. At its Thursday morning meeting, the Ohio Ballot Board…...

2+ mon, 2+ day ago  (1491+ words) Canton's mayor is willing to welcome data centers, but on the city's terms. That was one of the topics discussed in Mayor Bill Sherer's first State of the City speech at Umstattd Performing Arts Hall Thursday. Sherer, a long-time labor…...

2+ mon, 5+ day ago  (69+ words) Iran has been sending not only missiles around the region but also trolling tweets and videos around the internet. In Iran war, internet trolling is now part of global diplomacy Iran has been sending not only missiles around the region…...

2+ mon, 4+ week ago  (238+ words) Wilmington's city planning commission considered requiring an extra layer of review for new data centers. But it will be at least another month before that idea gets reconsidered. And no matter what happens, a rule change wouldn't apply to the…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1046+ words) How do you get teenagers to put their phones away for hours at a time? That is the question many schools are trying to solve as bans on cellphones sweep the U. S. " more than 30 states so far now restrict their use…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1005+ words) At the corner of East 40th Street and Chester Avenue in Cleveland sits a small, quiet brick building that blends in with many others Downtown. But, there's a data center in that building. This data center is not new, and it's…...