'We're on a mission' | Local advocate trying to get data center regulations on Ohio ballot this November

Amazon defends water use as Ohio targets data center industry

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- As Ohio lawmakers prepare legislation aimed at the fast-growing data center industry, Microsoft is pledging greater transparency around its Ohio data center projects.

'We're on a mission' | Local advocate trying to get data center regulations on Ohio ballot this November

Inside the walls of Bethel's Ben Franklin shop, Jo Wilson has made a small table and chairs a megaphone for her mission.Wilson is advocating for Conserve Ohio, a grassroots campaign to get data center restrictions on the November ballot this year.The campaign is working to get just over 413,000 confirmed signatures to get a constitutional amendment on the ballot. The proposed amendment would ban the construction of data centers that consume more…