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5C Group / Vultr Data Center (Prime Ohio)

Springfield, Clark County, Ohio

Under constructionMixed receptionAI confirmedRecord updated October 28, 2026

5C Group / Vultr Data Center (Prime Ohio) is a data center under construction in Springfield, Ohio (Clark County), operated by 5C Group (Hypertec Cloud + 5C Data Centers); tenant Vultr (The Constant Company, LLC). The public record puts it at 150 MW planned, a reported $1.3 billion investment. It has documented support and documented opposition on record.

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Facility record

Under construction

Operator: 5C Group (Hypertec Cloud + 5C Data Centers); tenant Vultr (The Constant Company, LLC)
Facility type: Data center, AI use confirmed
Location: 601 Benjamin Drive, Springfield, Clark County, OH
Coordinates: 39.8664, -83.7936 (approximate)
Power capacity: 150 MW planned
Land: Not established from a public source
Investment: $1.3 billion
Announced: Not established from a public source
Utility: Ohio Edison / FirstEnergy
Power source: Grid
Cooling: Not established from a public source
Water use: Not established from a public source
Jobs: 120 permanent
Public subsidy: Enterprise Zone property tax abatement, $95 million, City of Springfield | Ohio Tax Credit Authority -- 10-year 50% Job Creation Tax Credit, $32 million, State of Ohio, 2025
Community reception: Mixed reception
Source confidence: Confirmed by multiple independent sources or official documentation

Opposition and litigation at this site

Partly. Both documented support and documented opposition to 5C Group / Vultr Data Center (Prime Ohio) in Springfield, Clark County, Ohio appear in the record, with no clear majority position. 6-month moratorium, citizen ban petition, and a county zoning restriction (I-2 heavy-industrial, of unclear applicability to this township-zoned site) -- see notes field for full context.

How the community has taken it

Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: mixed reception means documented support and documented opposition both exist with no clear majority position on record.

6-month moratorium, citizen ban petition, and a county zoning restriction (I-2 heavy-industrial, of unclear applicability to this township-zoned site) -- see notes field for full context.

Source: Springfield News-Sun

Public money on the record

Program	Amount	Granted by	Year
Enterprise Zone property tax abatement	$95 million	City of Springfield
Ohio Tax Credit Authority -- 10-year 50% Job Creation Tax Credit	$32 million	State of Ohio	2025

Notes on the record

5C Group (formed May 2025 when Hypertec Cloud acquired 5C Data Centers) owns/builds the campus in the Prime Ohio corporate park; Vultr (legal entity The Constant Company, LLC) is the AI/cloud tenant. A separate Ohio Tax Credit Authority approval (December 15, 2025) went to Crusoe Energy Systems LLC for a new data center in the City of Springfield, with a $444.5 million fixed-asset investment and 20 jobs, distinct from The Constant Company approval of October 27, 2025 for this project. As of October 2026 no cited source says whether the Crusoe project is at this campus or at another site in Springfield, so it is not combined with this record and its relationship to this project is unresolved. Capacity: 75 MW disclosed operating load at opening vs. 150 MW max design load (city FAQ) -- both real, tracked field carries the larger design figure. Investment: ~$1.3B total project cost (multi-source) vs. $901.3M JobsOhio incentive-scoped committed investment -- tracked field carries the total-project figure. 120 permanent jobs / >$14M annual payroll disclosed (WYSO); a separate JobsOhio incentive filing cites 20 committed data-infrastructure jobs (narrower, incentive-scoped count). Incentives: ~$95M city enterprise-zone abatement over 15 years; $32M+ state 10-year 50% Ohio Tax Credit Authority credit (Oct 2025) to The Constant Company. Community context: Springfield passed a 6-month moratorium on new data centers and a citizen petition to ban them was launched; Clark County (Jul 2026) restricted data centers to I-2 heavy-industrial zoning, but the county's own zoning administrator noted no I-2 parcels currently exist in county jurisdiction, and Springfield Township (where Prime Ohio sits) zones separately from the county -- this rule change may not directly bind this site.

What the record does not establish, and the document that would

In every fight on our tracker the decisive fact came out of a public records request. These are the requests for this site.

Cooling method and water use
Land area

Which document closes each gap

Cooling method and water use: The water service agreement, any groundwater appropriation permit, and the mechanical narrative in the site plan.
Land area: The rezoning application, the plat, or the deed recorded with the county.

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Other sites within 30 miles

Distances are between recorded coordinates, many of which are a city or county centroid, so treat them as approximate. Cumulative load on one utility and one aquifer is the question a planning commission rarely asks.

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Questions people ask about this site

Is there opposition to the 5C Group / Vultr Data Center (Prime Ohio) in Springfield?

Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the 5C Group / Vultr Data Center (Prime Ohio)?

No lawsuit over 5C Group / Vultr Data Center (Prime Ohio) appears in the record we track as of October 28, 2026. Residents most often reach a lawyer over water supply, well drawdown, noise from cooling plant, property value, or a rezoning approved without the notice the ordinance required. If any of that is happening near this site, it is worth a review whether or not a case has been filed yet.

How much water does 5C Group / Vultr Data Center (Prime Ohio) use?

No water withdrawal figure for 5C Group / Vultr Data Center (Prime Ohio) is on record here. Water use is rarely published voluntarily; it usually surfaces through a utility service agreement or a state withdrawal permit, both of which are public records. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.

Who operates 5C Group / Vultr Data Center (Prime Ohio), and how big is it?

5C Group (Hypertec Cloud + 5C Data Centers); tenant Vultr (The Constant Company, LLC) is the operator on record. Capacity on record is 150 MW.

How to cite this page

SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "5C Group / Vultr Data Center (Prime Ohio)," updated October 28, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/5c-group-vultr-prime-ohio-springfield-oh.

Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.34.1 (October 4, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/5c-group-vultr-prime-ohio-springfield-oh, retrieved October 29, 2026.

Corrections with a public source are welcome at the Compute Atlas record or through our contact page. The whole registry is available as CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0.

Sources for this record

As compiled and cited by Compute Atlas, with our own reporting appended. Archived links are used where the original has moved.

1.New $1.3 billion Springfield data center expected to open in early 2026 · WYSO · retrieved August 2, 2026
2.Vultr Announces $1 Billion Data Center Investment in Springfield · JobsOhio · retrieved August 2, 2026
3.5C Data Center FAQs · City of Springfield · retrieved August 2, 2026
4.Hypertec Cloud acquires 5C Data Centers, forms 5C Group · Data Center Dynamics · retrieved August 2, 2026
5.Clark County approves new zoning rules for data centers · Springfield News-Sun · retrieved August 2, 2026
6.Crusoe Energy Systems LLC, Ohio Tax Credit Authority scope of work, City of Springfield, Clark County (approved December 15, 2025) · Gongwer Ohio (Ohio Tax Credit Authority exhibit) · retrieved October 28, 2026
7.The Constant Company, LLC, Ohio Tax Credit Authority scope of work, City of Springfield, Clark County (approved October 27, 2025) · Gongwer Ohio (Ohio Tax Credit Authority exhibit) · retrieved October 28, 2026

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