A spokeswoman for AWS said construction is expected to begin in early 2025. Beyond that, she could not offer a timeline for the project.
“AWS is expected to generate more than a hundred jobs in Fayette County by 2030,” said the spokeswoman, Virginia Milazzo.
The statement came Tuesday, more than a month after an Amazon spokeswoman told this newspaper that Amazon was considering a data center in Fayette County, about 25 miles east of Xenia.
“We recently filed documents as part of the process in exploring possible data center locations. This is part of our normal due diligence process as we are constantly evaluating new locations based on customer demand,” Milazzo told the Dayton Daily News then.
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This news outlet last month first reported that a new Amazon data center near Jeffersonville was possible after a reporter reviewed documents filed earlier this month by the Office of the Ohio Consumers’ Counsel (OCC) with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).
Earlier this month, the administration of Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said AWS would invest an estimated $10 billion to expand its data center infrastructure across Ohio, creating hundreds of jobs by the end of 2030.
At the time, a center in Fayette County was not confirmed.
The new data centers will host computer servers, data storage drives, networking equipment, and other technology to power cloud computing, including artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, Ohio government said.
The additional investment in Ohio builds on the $7.8 billion announced by AWS last year, which was in addition to the more than $6 billion already invested through 2022, bringing the company’s announced investment in Ohio since 2015 to more than $23 billion by the end of 2030, the DeWine administration said.
Construction continues in Fayette County on a $3.5 billion joint venture EV battery battery plant between Honda and LG Energy Solution near the same site on 454 acres.
The plant is being built just west of Ohio 729 and south of Interstate 71. The land encompasses Bluegrass Farms of Ohio’s soybean processing plant to the east, south and west. That plant’s address is 9768 Milledgeville-Jeffersonville Road, Jeffersonville.
