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Microsoft Heath Data Center
Heath, Licking County, Ohio · All 45 Microsoft sites · Every Microsoft case on our tracker
Microsoft Heath Data Center is a data center under construction in Heath, Ohio (Licking County), operated by Microsoft. The public record puts it at announced October 2024, 227 acres. It has documented public support and no documented opposition.
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Facility record
Under construction
- Operator
- Microsoft
- Facility type
- Data center, AI use mixed
- Location
- Heath, Licking County, OH
- Coordinates
- 40.0150, -82.4600
- Power capacity
- Not established from a public source
- Land
- 227 acres
- Investment
- Not established from a public source
- Announced
- October 2024
- Utility
- AEP Ohio
- Power source
- Grid
- Cooling
- Evaporative
- Water use
- Not established from a public source
- Jobs
- 400 construction
- Public subsidy
- Ohio data-center sales/use-tax exemption (R.C. 122.175), 15-yr, awarded by the Ohio Tax Credit Authority Oct 28 2024 for Microsoft's three Licking County campuses (New Albany, Heath, Hebron); combined value estimated ~$72.5M (Policy Matters Ohio), not disaggregated by site. Microsoft declined real-estate tax abatements at Hebron/Heath, benefiting Lakewood Local Schools., State of Ohio, 2024
- Community reception
- Supported
- Source confidence
- Confirmed by multiple independent sources or official documentation
Timeline from the record
Newest first. Record entries come from the filings and reports the registry cites. Coverage entries are headlines from publisher feeds we monitor daily, linked to the outlet; last checked September 14, 2026.
- February 2026Under constructionGroundbreaking February 24, 2026; AMES Construction as general contractor; mass grading began February, targeted complete November 2026 Source: Microsoft Local
- April 2025ProposedMicrosoft pauses all Licking County sites
- October 2024ProposedAnnounced as part of $1B Licking County investment; Microsoft purchases 227 acres at 975 Thornwood Dr SW, Heath for over $32M Source: ABC 6 WSYX Columbus
Opposition and litigation at this site
Not that we can document. Local officials or residents have expressed public support for Microsoft Heath Data Center in Heath, Licking County, Ohio, and no opposition, petition, or lawsuit appears in the sources this registry tracks as of July 6, 2026. Microsoft agreed not to take real-estate tax abatements at Heath or Hebron, benefiting Lakewood Local School District.
How the community has taken it
Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: supported means local officials or residents have expressed public support and no opposition is documented.
Microsoft agreed not to take real-estate tax abatements at Heath or Hebron, benefiting Lakewood Local School District. Heath Mayor praised cooperative planning process and noted off-site infrastructure improvements along Thornwood Drive corridor.
Power and water
Powered from the AEP Ohio grid as part of Microsoft's Central Ohio (Licking County) expansion.
Microsoft's Licking County datacenters use direct evaporative cooling per Microsoft; no Heath-specific operational water-use (MGD) figure is published.
Public money on the record
| Program | Amount | Granted by | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio data-center sales/use-tax exemption (R.C. 122.175), 15-yr, awarded by the Ohio Tax Credit Authority Oct 28 2024 for Microsoft's three Licking County campuses (New Albany, Heath, Hebron); combined value estimated ~$72.5M (Policy Matters Ohio), not disaggregated by site. Microsoft declined real-estate tax abatements at Hebron/Heath, benefiting Lakewood Local Schools. | Not established | State of Ohio | 2024 |
Notes on the record
Site at 975 Thornwood Dr SW, Heath OH 43056; 227 acres. Part of Microsoft's $1B Licking County three-campus investment alongside Hebron and New Albany. Coordinates are approximate Heath city centroid; exact Thornwood Dr parcel not pinned. The $1B is Microsoft's three-campus Licking County commitment; no Heath-specific capital-investment figure is published (do not derive by subtraction).
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.
- Power capacity in megawatts
- Permanent jobs promised
Which document closes each gap
- Power capacity in megawatts
- The utility's large load service agreement, the interconnection request in the grid operator's queue, or the electrical site plan in the permit file.
- Permanent jobs promised
- The economic development application or incentive agreement, which usually states a job commitment and a clawback.
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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.
- Microsoft Hebron Data Center · Hebron · Microsoft2 mi · Under construction · Supported
- Vantage Data Centers OH2 (Millersport Campus) · Millersport · Vantage Data Centers9 mi · Under construction · 696 MW
- Aligned Data Centers, Pataskala · Pataskala · Aligned Data Centers11 mi · Cancelled · 200 MW · Contested
- CyrusOne New Albany COL-1 · Johnstown · CyrusOne15 mi · Under construction
- EdgeConneX MCN New Albany (South Campus) · New Albany · EdgeConneX15 mi · Under construction · 224 MW
- Cologix Johnstown AI-Ready Campus · Johnstown · Cologix15 mi · Under construction · 800 MW · Mixed reception
- AWS New Albany (Newton Court) · New Albany · Amazon Web Services15 mi · Operating
- QTS New Albany 2 · New Albany · QTS Data Centers16 mi · Under construction · 78 MW
Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Microsoft Heath Data Center in Heath?
Not that we can document. Local officials or residents have expressed public support for Microsoft Heath Data Center in Heath, Licking County, Ohio, and no opposition, petition, or lawsuit appears in the sources this registry tracks as of July 6, 2026. Microsoft agreed not to take real-estate tax abatements at Heath or Hebron, benefiting Lakewood Local School District.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Microsoft Heath Data Center?
No lawsuit over Microsoft Heath Data Center appears in the record we track as of July 6, 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 Microsoft Heath Data Center use?
No water withdrawal figure for Microsoft Heath Data Center is on record here. Cooling is recorded as evaporative, which is the strongest available clue: closed loop and air cooled plant draw far less than evaporative cooling. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.
Who operates Microsoft Heath Data Center, and how big is it?
Microsoft is the operator on record. We hold 45 sites for that company across the registry. No capacity figure is on record for this site. The site is recorded at 227 acres.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Microsoft Heath Data Center," updated July 6, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/microsoft-heath-oh.
Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.32.0 (September 7, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/microsoft-heath-oh, retrieved September 14, 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.Heath datacenter construction updates - Microsoft Local · Microsoft Local · retrieved July 6, 2026
- 2.Heath breaks ground on Microsoft data center expected to bring hundreds of jobs · ABC 6 WSYX Columbus · retrieved July 6, 2026
- 3.Ohio data centers exploit tax break · Signal Ohio · retrieved July 7, 2026
- 4.Understanding Microsoft datacenters in Licking County · Microsoft Local · retrieved July 7, 2026
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