"I don't want anybody thinking that there's one or two people who are making an overnight decision on this. That is not the case," said Missy Kendrick, president and CEO of Choose Columbus.

Soaring demand for data centers is powering one of the largest infrastructure buildouts in U.S. history. Tech companies are spending hundreds of billions of dollars in the race to control the future ...

Growth in the data center industry isn’t just expanding, it’s exploding. The number of U.S. data centers nearly quadrupled from 2010 to 2024, and demand is climbing with technologies like AI and cloud ...

Data centers play a central role in this transformation and have emerged as critical infrastructure for the modern economy. Local government regulations are also evolving, with permitting processes ...