With $1 million in initial funding, Google is launching a fund to help modernize and improve Ohio's electric grid. The fund is part of the company's efforts to foster new technologies to meet growing energy demands in Ohio and comes as Google itself increases its presence throughout the Buckeye State.

"Ohio is becoming the backbone of the digital economy, so it's really important to lay the foundation of innovation as we grow."

Among them are whether the state is giving up too much in tax revenue for the number of jobs they’ll create, who will pay to add electricity generation to meet the centers’ surging demand, and whether the new demand will force fossil-fuel burning generators to stay online, making the world’s climate crisis worse.

Ohio is giving tech companies generous tax breaks, often amounting to millions more than the corporations are planning to invest toward Ohio workers. Ohio’s “Silicon Heartland” has brought in billions of dollars in investments from major names in the tech industry,

AEP is investing more in its systems nearly three years after widespread power outages impacted hundreds of thousands of Ohio customers.

He emphasized the urgency of the matter, noting that data centers are enormous electricity consumers, potentially driving up utility costs for Ohio residents and businesses while posing challenges to climate change mitigation efforts.

Ohio Consumers' Counsel attorney Bill Michael's line of questioning on Tuesday suggested companies like Amazon, Meta and Microsoft can afford to pay their fair share, when it comes to purchasing electricity.

With $1 million in initial funding, Google is launching a fund to help modernize and improve Ohio's electric grid. The fund is part of the company's efforts to foster new technologies to meet ...

Ohio officials’ opposition to private solar and wind investments in service to oil-and-gas interests looking to their own bottom line is discouraging enough. Equally concerning, however, is the misleading information and outright lies being used by special interests to try to turn Ohioans against solar power.

Please advise your staff that OSU football players have been making "jump-up-worthy" memorable plays for generations. Your recent voting contest included only three out of 16 total plays that were from prior to 1990.

TikTok told users the app will be "temporarily unavailable" as its Chinese parent company ByteDance pins its hopes on Donald Trump to save it.

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