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.
Parcel One is on Fent Road, bounded by Milledgeville-Jeffers Road, Old US Highway 35 NW, and Jeffersonville West Lancaster Road NW, Jeffersonville, Ohio. The surveyor's description states, “beginning from the southwest corner of Bluegrass Boulevard Phase II Right-of-Way Dedication Plat,” etc.
Parcel Two starts at the intersection of Milledgeville-Jeffersonville Road, and State Route 729, to the northeast corner of the Honda property, to include the right-of-way line of expansion of Bluegrass Boulevard. Both parcels are bounded on the north by Interstate 71.
News that Amazon was eyeing Fayette County in southern Ohio as a site for a data center development first surfaced in November. Local filings suggest the data center could go live in 2026.
In 2023, AWS said that it planned to invest an estimated $7.8 billion by the end of 2029/2030 on data centers in Ohio. $3.5bn of that is expected to go to New Albany, where the company has announced it plans to build a five-building data center campus.
November 2024 saw Amazon announce plans to build a $2 billion data center campus in Sunbury, Central Ohio. The company purchased land for the project at the end of last month.
