Data Center Gas Plants Testimony and Commenting Workshop

Thursday, October 15, 7:00 PM and Thursday, October 22, 4:30 PM, 2026
Registration for the zoom here.
October 22 meeting in-person - New Albany Branch Library, 200 Market St., New Albany, OH 43054. 

Ohio is adding new utility scale gas plants to power data centers at an alarming rate -- 12 proposed and approved in the last year alone totaling 5300 MW -- plus the 9200 MW gas plant planned to power data centers at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant. 

If all are built to full operation, they could create 84.3 million tons of NEW greenhouse gas pollution per year – more than the country of Singapore – just as the world is entering a climate tipping point. 

While several data center gas plants have already been approved -- some with no public notice and no public hearing -- one more has a public hearing on Thursday, October 22: PowerConneX III, a 450 MW gas plant to power EdgeConneX data centers in New Albany. 

To help get people ready, Save Ohio Parks will hold its next Testimony and Commenting Workshop on Thursday, October 15, at 7 p.m. Learn how YOU can push back against this gas plant by submitting a written comment and testifying at the public hearing. 

Our workshop will go over:
- Talking points about the gas plant 
- How to submit written comments 
- What makes a strong public comment 
-  When and where to go for the public hearing 
- What to expect at a public hearing 
- What makes strong public testimony 

While every written comment helps, it is even better to testify at a public hearing. This is sworn testimony, so it is taken more seriously – and since much of the gas will come from fracking Ohio state parks and wildlife areas, all Ohioans have an interest.