Amazon promises to build more Ohio data centers

• That would bring Amazon's total investment to over $23 billion since 2015, making it the state's second-largest private sector commitment behind only Intel.

Between the lines: Amazon wants to expand its data center footprint "outside of Central Ohio in additional communities across the state."

Yes, but: Data centers can also bring challenges to communities, as they require massive amounts of energy and land and can be noisy eyesores.

• There are already around 100 data centers here, and a 146% expansion in inventory from 2012-2021 has gobbled up our electricity grid capacity, we previously reported.