Data centers in Summit County, Ohio: 2 projects mapped

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Summit County's one attempt at a large new data center ended quickly. Quantum HPC, an Ohio technology company, proposed Project Triton near an old limestone mine in Norton. It was pitched as a campus of more than $2 billion, running on its own on-site power "completely independent from the public electrical grid," in the words of CEO Dale Hobbie. The plan went to Norton's planning committee in July 2025. At a standing-room public meeting on October 13, 2025, residents asked where the company had built before, how it would control the noise and how it would cool the servers. Quantum said the cooling water would be brought in by truck, and that this would be its first data center. "We don't want you here," one Norton resident told the company. Norton City Council did not approve the project, and it did not go ahead.

What the county does have is a handful of existing facilities that, as Signal Akron put it, "have largely avoided the spotlight". Its survey counted seven: two ark data centers sites on East Miller Avenue in South Akron (the former Involta) that rent server space to other companies, a business known as colocation; Cogent and Lumen sites in Akron doing the same; Fairlawn's municipal broadband data center; a hosting operation near the Akron-Canton Airport; and Viking Data Centers. Viking runs crypto-mining and AI computing out of Goodyear's former tire plant at 428 Seiberling Street in East Akron, a 380,000-square-foot building that the company says draws 150 megawatts around the clock.

The state is still subsidizing the smaller operators. In March 2026 the Ohio Tax Credit Authority approved a 10-year break worth more than $4.5 million for ark's Akron and Independence sites. In return the company must invest $136 million, add 10 jobs and keep both sites open for at least 13 years. Greater Akron Chamber president Steve Millard called the Akron site "not a super-sized data center" and said FirstEnergy had confirmed it could power the facility at its existing size.

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