$33 B Piketon SoftBank project is huge complex of more than 12 data centers across Pike County, affecting farmland, wetlands, streams. @jasonsalley.bsky.social Fallout Files substack: bit.ly/4vookOh More pollution, more illness for Ohioans. @amyactonoh.bsky.social @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social

We have the maps. It is not one data center. It is dozens of individual data centers spread across multiple properties throughout Pike County. Details here - open.substack.com/pub/thefallo...

Chillicothe, Ohio, has a 🤐 dirty secret - and it's buried beneath the factory that once made America's favorite cookware. 🥘🍳 Learn more about Wear-Ever. 📺 WATCH - Cooking up something toxic! The hidden cost of American-made. Link: youtu.be/Mb9zzaDBR0A?...

Did you know I made a documentary? Check out Piketon: Appalachia's Nuclear Nightmare. We premiered it last summer in Columbus. WATCH - youtu.be/U21vki0arD8?...

Ohio EPA found sulfuric acid dumped on the ground and chromium waste sitting in buildings more than a year after the owner told regulators that hazardous wastes had been properly disposed. FULL STORY HERE - open.substack.com/pub/thefallo...

A Ross County village wastewater plant was discharging pollution into Paint Creek at up to eight times the legal limit for four straight months — a formal notice of violation has been issued. FULL STORY HERE - open.substack.com/pub/thefallo...

🏭⚡ Ohio’s massive data center expansion is now under the microscope. State officials gathered today for the first hearing of the new Select Committee on Data Centers.

Ohio just hit pause on data center tax breaks as the legislature takes a hard look at what the state's data center boom is actually costing. Details here - open.substack.com/pub/thefallo...

The power grid serving America's data centers has been breaking for two straight days. Prices at some locations hit $2,500 per megawatt-hour on Tuesday morning. Link in the comments below -

Sewage has been flowing into a Harrison County creek for five months. The village's wastewater plant has had no operator since March. The council resigned. The mayor doesn't live there. Ohio's AG is now suing. Details here - open.substack.com/pub/thefallo...

The property now includes a Walmart and a newly built Aldi. No vapor intrusion testing of those buildings has been conducted to determine whether cancer-causing chemicals migrating upward through the soil are entering the structures. freepress.org/article/they...

State moves to mandate PFAS warnings in annual water reports, ending years of voluntary disclosure by utilities. Details here - open.substack.com/pub/thefallo...

Data center alley is jamming the grid again today. Lines running into Ashburn, Virginia, the heart of data center alley, hit the $2,000-per-megawatt-hour price cap repeatedly today. The congestion those data centers are created pushed prices into negative numbers in other parts of the grid.

Heavy rain across southern Ohio has caused the small village of Piketon’s sewer systems to back up.

The Ohio EPA inspected the Parker Hannifin contamination site in Waverly and found the groundwater treatment system has been shut down for two years, and TCE violations went unreported to regulators. Link: open.substack.com/pub/thefallo...

Stack Infrastructure wants to build a 333,000-square-foot data center in New Albany — and to do so, they need to permanently fill a wetland. The site sits in an area where state and federal wildlife officials have flagged federally endangered bats, endangered fish, and an endangered bird.

Solar power system for Lawrence County's Strata Expanse Data Center cleared for construction - The solar power system that will serve the Strata Expanse Data Center in Lawrence County has received state construction approval, with groundbreaking set for June 1, according to permit documents.

As Monday's grid emergency pushed PJM to the edge, an aging Pennsylvania power plant operating under special federal environmental restrictions was brought back online to help keep the lights on. Details here - open.substack.com/pub/thefallo...

PPG is discharging water into the Scioto River at concentrations between 1.5 and 2.5 times the level Ohio EPA considers safe for groundwater — directly into a river that runs through Pickaway County. The permit allows it. That does not mean it is safe. freepress.org/article/ppg-...

Anduril is going to make cruise missiles at its Pickaway County facility. Details here - open.substack.com/pub/thefallo...

#BREAKING | The grid managing electricity for 67 million Americans declared an energy emergency today — and asked the federal government for permission to disconnect data centers from the grid and run their diesel backup generators. Details here - tinyurl.com/yc2fmprr

A probable cancer-causing chemical has been in the groundwater near Circleville since at least 1998. Details here - tinyurl.com/3yj2mwfv

...a table on page 5 should be required reading for every Ohio lawmaker who voted for House Bill 15, every regulator who approved fracking on state park land, and every official who has stood at a podium and described data center growth as an unqualified win for Ohio. freepress.org/article/data...

5.3 GW of wind and solar was never built in Ohio — almost all AEP data center interconnection requests as of March. @jasonsalley.bsky.social on @saveohioparks.bsky.social study: bit.ly/4nlxKqO Who to blame? Ohio GOP, Jobs Ohio and OOGA. @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social @amyactonoh.bsky.social

Ohio approved hundreds of data centers with minimal oversight. A new report says residents are now paying the price — in higher bills and diesel exhaust. DETAILS HERE - tinyurl.com/2k6usxe3

The grid operator managing electricity across the region published a document in January naming data centers as the driver of some of the highest power demand growth in Ohio — then revealed the projections Ohio used to justify its energy policy were overstated. Details here - tinyurl.com/mw7c9ph2

Ohio’s rural towns are losing more clean water to broken pipes than they deliver — and families are still stuck paying the bill. Should Columbus and D.C. step up? Details here - tinyurl.com/4veft68v

With control over major site‑development funding and a statewide property database, JobsOhio is shaping where growth happens while operating largely outside public view.

Google's $1 billion data center in Franklin Furnace needs a wetland permit. Ohio EPA is holding a public meeting Wednesday night — and it's only 30 minutes long. Show up. 🏭 Link: medium.com/@jasonsalley...

OSHA has released its report on the toxic release from the Austin Powder Company in Vinton County, and it is serious. Details here - tinyurl.com/4m882ex6

An Ohio senator just asked Congress to strip the laws protecting your air, water, and wildlife — so toxic industries can get built faster. Here's exactly what he wants gone. 🏭 Details here - tinyurl.com/rxy2bv42

Centrus just announced who will be building its billion-dollar nuclear expansion in Piketon.⚛️ Details here - tinyurl.com/4n3rz6wm

One Ohio Senator wants to finally drag JobsOhio kicking and screaming into the light. Details here - tinyurl.com/bdh6jdtc

Here are the latest job-loss numbers in Ohio from the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services WARN system. ODJFS LINK: tinyurl.com/nmr9xx5a

IN OHIO, BIG BROTHER IS DEFINITELY WATCHING! They're scanning your face and tracking your car in Ohio. Two surveillance technologies are tracking residents' faces and vehicles with no laws against it. Full story here - bit.ly/4dArxoc

You are not a suspect. But the machine doesn't know that — and there's no law requiring it to find out before officers show up at your door. LINK: tinyurl.com/bdfyhyme

Ohio EPA orders sand mine operator to clean up abandoned Pike County site. Here is what the order says - bit.ly/4thujDl

PUCO just ordered AEP Ohio to cut annual revenues by $58.7 million. Full story - bit.ly/4sOXxcQ

Toxic chemicals were still detected in groundwater beneath the Waverly Walmart property in 2025. Details here - bit.ly/4e0OWPH

The new White House app requests several unusual permissions. No explanation provided. 📱🔍👇 Details here - bit.ly/4sHfw55

An Ohio petition seeks to BAN all data center construction. Plus, 4 bills dropped the same week, also targeting data centers. Full story here - bit.ly/3NO7rMQ

The Ohio EPA said that E. coli violations were "too numerous to count" for 4 straight months. Link - bit.ly/4dS5dq8

DOE releases propaganda video promoting Piketon megaplant while communities still denied RECA compensation open.substack.com/pub/thefallo...

Anduril Industries and Palantir Technologies landed the software contract for Trump's Golden Dome missile defense system. Details here - www.ohioatomicpress.com/anduril-news...

Police say it’s a tool. Critics say it’s mass surveillance. Is Flock the rise of the police state? LINK: www.ohioatomicpress.com/flock-invest...

Kentucky Gov. announces $1.76B uranium plant at contaminated Paducah GDP site. Same pattern as Pike County: 75 years of radioactive contamination, RECA denied, cleanup unfinished — now celebrate "economic development." ☢️⚠️👇 Link: www.ohioatomicpress.com/nuclear-news...

People think data centers are all about AI. They’re not. They’re the engine room for mass data farming and large‑scale digital surveillance. AI is just the billboard on the front. LINK: tinyurl.com/32wymj48

The same man behind one of the biggest wins in tech history also backed some of the most spectacular collapses. Now he’s making his biggest bet yet — on AI. Link: open.substack.com/pub/thefallo...

On Friday, three cabinet secretaries and a Japanese billionaire will be in Piketon. Here is the reason why! Details here - bit.ly/4uUSNEj