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Microsoft Hebron Data Center
Hebron, Licking County, Ohio · All 45 Microsoft sites · Every Microsoft case on our tracker
Microsoft Hebron Data Center is a data center under construction in Hebron, Ohio (Licking County), operated by Microsoft. The public record puts it at announced October 2024, 223 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
- Hebron, Licking County, OH
- Coordinates
- 40.0100, -82.5000
- Power capacity
- Not established from a public source
- Land
- 223 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 contracted for civil work and mass grading; six-data-center campus planned west of Ohio 79 between High Street and Canyon Road; grading estimated complete November 2026 Source: Microsoft Local
- April 2025ProposedMicrosoft pauses all Licking County projects; says evaluating sites in line with investment strategy
- October 2024ProposedAnnounced as part of Microsoft's $1B Licking County three-campus investment (New Albany, Heath, Hebron) Source: Data Center Dynamics
Opposition and litigation at this site
Not that we can document. Local officials or residents have expressed public support for Microsoft Hebron Data Center in Hebron, 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, directly 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, directly benefiting Lakewood Local School District. Village of Hebron approved six-data-center campus plan.
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; county filings cite a ~252 gal/min water-capacity request for Hebron (a capacity request, not metered consumption). No confirmed operational 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
223 acres west of Ohio 79, between North High Street and Canyon Road, Hebron OH 43025. Six-data-center campus planned. Part of Microsoft's $1B Licking County commitment; individual site investment not separately disclosed. Coordinates are approximate Hebron village area. The $1B figure is Microsoft's three-campus Licking County commitment (not disaggregated); an 'up to $3B' Hebron figure appears only in a secondary blog and is not a committed capital-expenditure figure.
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 Heath Data Center · Heath · Microsoft2 mi · Under construction · Supported
- Vantage Data Centers OH2 (Millersport Campus) · Millersport · Vantage Data Centers8 mi · Under construction · 696 MW
- Aligned Data Centers, Pataskala · Pataskala · Aligned Data Centers9 mi · Cancelled · 200 MW · Contested
- CyrusOne New Albany COL-1 · Johnstown · CyrusOne13 mi · Under construction
- EdgeConneX MCN New Albany (South Campus) · New Albany · EdgeConneX13 mi · Under construction · 224 MW
- AWS New Albany (Newton Court) · New Albany · Amazon Web Services13 mi · Operating
- Cologix Johnstown AI-Ready Campus · Johnstown · Cologix14 mi · Under construction · 800 MW · Mixed reception
- QTS New Albany 2 · New Albany · QTS Data Centers14 mi · Under construction · 78 MW
Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Microsoft Hebron Data Center in Hebron?
Not that we can document. Local officials or residents have expressed public support for Microsoft Hebron Data Center in Hebron, 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, directly benefiting Lakewood Local School District.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Microsoft Hebron Data Center?
No lawsuit over Microsoft Hebron 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 Hebron Data Center use?
No water withdrawal figure for Microsoft Hebron 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 Hebron 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 223 acres.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Microsoft Hebron Data Center," updated July 6, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/microsoft-hebron-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-hebron-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.Hebron datacenter construction update - Microsoft Local · Microsoft Local · retrieved July 6, 2026
- 2.Microsoft to build data center in Hebron, Ohio · Spectrum News 1 · retrieved July 6, 2026
- 3.Microsoft to invest $1bn in data center campuses in Central Ohio · Data Center Dynamics · retrieved July 6, 2026
- 4.Ohio data centers exploit tax break · Signal Ohio · retrieved July 7, 2026
- 5.Understanding Microsoft datacenters in Licking County · Microsoft Local · retrieved July 7, 2026
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