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Project Astralus (Yellow Creek Township)

Columbiana County, Ohio

ProposedMixed receptionRecord updated October 14, 2026

Project Astralus (Yellow Creek Township) is a proposed data center in Ohio (Columbiana County), operated by Zuharis. The public record puts it at 510 acres. It has documented support and documented opposition on record.

Every line on this page traces to a public source listed at the bottom. Where a figure was looked for and not found, the row says so. A blank is never a zero.

Facility record

Proposed

Operator
Zuharis
Facility type
Data center
Location
Columbiana County, OH
Coordinates
40.6189, -80.6961 (approximate)
Power capacity
Not established from a public source
Land
510 acres
Investment
Not established from a public source
Announced
Not established from a public source
Utility
Not established from a public source
Power source
On site gas
Cooling
Closed loop
Water use
Not established from a public source
Jobs
Not established from a public source
Public subsidy
Not established from a public source
Community reception
Mixed reception
Source confidence
Reported by at least one credible outlet or filing

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.

  1. May 28, 2026
    Proposed
    Public information meeting on a data center plus on-site power plant on ~510 acres near SR 7. Owner projects a 500 MW shell by summer 2027 and an additional 500 MW starting fall 2027, with $3.5 to 4.5B private investment. Entitlements are planned for 2026. Source: The Review (East Liverpool)

Opposition and litigation at this site

Partly. Both documented support and documented opposition to Project Astralus (Yellow Creek Township) in Columbiana County, Ohio appear in the record, with no clear majority position. About 100 attended the May 2026 public meeting at Highlandtown VFD.

A new status, a permit, a reception finding, or a lawsuit. Nothing else, ever.

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.

About 100 attended the May 2026 public meeting at Highlandtown VFD. Many residents were opposed; union representatives spoke in favor.

Source: The Review (East Liverpool)

Power and water

Owner says the campus will generate its own power and not connect to the grid. Projected natural gas severance/royalty revenue implies gas-fired generation.

Own Ohio River intake developed with Buckeye Water District; owner claims water recycled in a closed loop with no discharge.

Notes on the record

Owner Tony Sharma's figures (500 MW + 500 MW phases, $3.5 to 4.5B investment, 2,000 to 5,000 permanent IT jobs) are company claims at a public meeting and are not independently verified, so they are kept here rather than in structured fields. Coordinates are the Yellow Creek Township centroid. The site is near 16 School Road and the SR 7 corridor near the Jefferson County line.

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
  • Tax abatements or other public subsidy
  • Permanent jobs promised
  • Which utility serves it
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.
Tax abatements or other public subsidy
The abatement, PILOT, or development agreement approved by the county, city, or development authority, and the state's data center sales tax exemption certificate if one was issued.
Permanent jobs promised
The economic development application or incentive agreement, which usually states a job commitment and a clawback.
Which utility serves it
The electric service agreement or the utility's filing with the state public utility commission.

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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 Project Astralus (Yellow Creek Township) data center in Columbiana County, Ohio?

Partly. Both documented support and documented opposition to Project Astralus (Yellow Creek Township) in Columbiana County, Ohio appear in the record, with no clear majority position. About 100 attended the May 2026 public meeting at Highlandtown VFD.

Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Project Astralus (Yellow Creek Township) data center?

No lawsuit over Project Astralus (Yellow Creek Township) appears in the record we track as of October 14, 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 Project Astralus (Yellow Creek Township) use?

No water withdrawal figure for Project Astralus (Yellow Creek Township) is on record here. Cooling is recorded as closed_loop, 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 Project Astralus (Yellow Creek Township), and how big is it?

Zuharis is the operator on record. No capacity figure is on record for this site. The site is recorded at 510 acres.

How to cite this page

SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Project Astralus (Yellow Creek Township)," updated October 14, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/zuharis-project-astralus-yellow-creek-columbiana-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/zuharis-project-astralus-yellow-creek-columbiana-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. 1.Review Online: Public information meeting held for data center in Yellow Creek Township (Zuharis, Project Astralus, ~510 acres, off-grid power plant) · The Review (East Liverpool) · retrieved October 14, 2026

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