Amazon acquires 400 acres near new Intel development in Ohio
I live next to where this is going in (walking distance).  We already have a huge Google Data Center, One of the Ohio-east region availability zones.  A Meta data center and office park, and a dbt data center under construction all within a short radius.   We also have a vitamin factory being built, we have a large Amazon Fulfillment center, an R&amp;D lab for a perfume company, and an R&amp;D lab for plastics packaging.  All of this has been built over the last 3 or 4 years.<p>This particular spot has electricity and water available from multiple service providers.  It has one of the lowest seismic activity ratings in the US.  We don&#x27;t get hurricanes and very rarely get tornados.  It is very flat and has great access to highways.  We are within a 12 hour drive of something like 60% of the population of the US.<p>There are huge tax incentives to support Intel&#x27;s Ohio One, which may have 6-10 fabs built within the next few years.  The Intel project is paying for highway development the power and sewer extensions and more.<p>Spin off development is adding a slew of hotels, big box stores and other development all happening at the same time.<p>The local schools are rated very highly, and we are only a short drive from The Ohio State University, which is one of the largest universities in the country.<p>Columbus has a vibrant startup scene with several unicorns in the last couple of years.<p>They are taking our quiet country town on the outskirts of Columbus, of about 15K people to 100K people over the course of the next 7 years.  They are taking many square miles of farmland to make this happen.  They are bulldozing over everyone and anything that gets in their way.  The developers are making money hand-over-fist.  In particular Les Wexner&#x27;s development company &quot;The New Albany Company&quot;.  Wexner is one of the key players behind all of this development.<p>I live on land that goes back in my wife&#x27;s family to a Revolutionary war grant.  I&#x27;m pretty sure we will be pushed out within the next year or two as well.  The only thing that has stopped them so far is that we have most of the land set as conservation land, which is hard to undo and just pave over.<p>That doesn&#x27;t stop the bulldozers from pushing things around next door to us and right up to our property line.<p>They cut down huge swaths of forest with 100, 150+ year old trees.  They got permission to wipe out acres and acres of wetlands without having to worry about mitigation by donating the money to some wildlife fund instead.<p>We have a pair of displaced bald eagles that have been spotted flying around the area now trying to find a new home.