Amazon bought hundreds of acres of land in Ohio to build a massive data center. Are server farms and data centers different? Let's take a look.

Amazon plans to open its first data centers outside central Ohio. Here's where those centers may go and when construction will start.

Amazon purchased around 590 acres of land in northwest Fayette County for $102.4 million, part of a $5 billion investment into Jefferson Township. According to records from the Fayette County auditor,

Amazon has acquired 590 acres in Jefferson Township, Ohio, for a data center campus. The Record Herald reports Amazon Data Services, Inc. purchased 589.843 acres in Jefferson Township for just over $102 million last month. The company acquired two parcels of land from the Martin Land Co.

Amazon Data Services reportedly bought 243 acres of land for $60.2 million and another 346 acres for nearly $42.2 million.

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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.

Online retailer Amazon said Monday it will displace 432 of 500 workers at its Findlay sorting center in March as the company makes more than $20 million in improvements at the facility over six to eight months.

OBETZ, Ohio — The Obetz Police Department released body camera video from the moments officers responded to a tragic car accident last Friday. Sixty-one-year-old Chrystal Ramey was taking her nephew to work at the Amazon facility in Obetz during the snowstorm.

Ohio woman said her family has been fighting Amazon for years, and she feels the experience has changed their life forever.

Dual investigations are underway in neighboring Northeast Ohio communities to find out who dumped dozens of Amazon packages in a dumpster.

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.