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Data centers in Miami County, Ohio: 1 project mapped
After a meeting that ran more than four hours, the Piqua Commission approved a development agreement on November 3, 2025, for a data center in the I-75 Exit 78 Business and Industrial Park at Farrington and Washington Roads, Miami Valley Today reported. It passed as an emergency measure, waiving the usual three readings. City officials said they could not name the company because of a nondisclosure agreement. City Manager Paul Oberdorfer said he did not know who it was. DCD reported the agreement was with J5 LLC, doing business as Shaytura LLC, for two 350,000-square-foot buildings on about 607 acres, built over three to five years. The terms included a 15-year, 100 percent exemption on the buildings' added value, with payments in lieu of taxes to the city and schools, and a 30-year real property tax exemption. Economic Development Director Chris Schmiesing described a $1 billion investment with about 50 full-time jobs.
Water was the first worry. Utilities Director Kevin Krejny said the city's plant, which draws on the Great Miami River, Piqua Quarry and Swift Run Lake, can treat 6.7 million gallons a day. The city uses about 2.2 million, and the project's peak draw would be capped at 2 million on the hottest summer days. By August 2026, Schmiesing was describing a closed-loop system using about as much water as "two full service restaurants".
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The second fight was over power. On August 18, 2026, before a standing-room crowd, the commission voted 4-1 for a 30-year franchise letting AES Ohio build and run electric facilities to serve J5 LLC, with a $1 million annual franchise fee paid by the customer, Miami Valley Today reported. Separately, Meta had pledged $8 million to the city (officials have not said whether Meta is behind J5 LLC), which interim city manager Rick Byron linked to first-responder needs such as a $2.5 million ladder truck. Commissioner Paul Simmons cast the only no vote. He had said the week before that 94.5 percent of the people there spoke out against the ordinance, and that residents had been "disenfranchised out of the referendum process last November" by the emergency vote. "I believe in our community and that our best days are in front of us. I support this project," said Vice Mayor Frank DeBrosse. Resident Jonathan Wessel told the commission the franchise was "the last piece of leverage that the city has in this deal." Power director RJ Monnier said the city does not buy power from AES and is "not subsidizing this data center in any way."
The citizen group Save Piqua then began circulating a referendum petition to suspend the franchise ordinance and put it to a public vote, according to a statement from the group published by Miami Valley Today. The group said it had filed petitions on August 11 for a charter amendment banning data centers and cryptocurrency mining in the city, along with recall petitions against Mayor James Vetter, DeBrosse and Commissioner Rick Walker.
Data center projects on record in Miami County
Grouped by the town each site sits in. The report above may name projects that have no record here yet.
Piqua1
| Project | Company | Status | Power | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| J5 LLC Data CenterPiqua | J5 LLC (Shaytura LLC) | Approved | 1,400 MW |
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