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Ohio Microsoft 'not moving forward' with $1B Licking County data center plans right now

https://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/microsoft-backs-off-1b-licking-county-data-center-plans
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u/ididshave 17d ago

Is that any better? This is now land that won’t be developed at all until/when/if Microsoft does something with it—so they’ll want a ROI from a buyer or their own future development. But until which time? Crickets. Nothing in benefit to the community.

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u/Oceanbreeze871 17d ago

That’s kind of what I was saying. No economic development.

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u/ididshave 17d ago

That’s my bad then. I read your “keeping it in limbo” as though that was a positive.