Data centers ask Ohio to file its objections with a data center
A day after Ohio towns banned the server farms outright, the industry has opened a feedback portal that runs on the buildings under complaint
…and we hear you, we really do hear you,” said Wade Harding of the Council on Large Quiet Buildings, unveiling the industry’s answer to Tuesday’s vote. “That is why we built a form.”
The council represents the server farms Ohio spent the evening rejecting. Its new portal lets residents file objections to data centers. The portal is hosted by a data center outside Urbana, the town that voted 76 percent to keep them out.
Harding said residents of Hubbard, which banned the facilities by 77 percent, are welcome to use the form too. He confirmed each complaint would be received, processed and archived inside a building the sender had just voted against. When a reporter asked whether Ohioans might prefer to object without the industry’s machinery involved, Harding said the council had considered this, and would print every complaint out as well.
Twenty-six objections had arrived by midday Tuesday, each one now living on a server its author had voted to evict. The council called that a dialogue.
