OH…Silicon Valley East

Tech giant Google plans to build two more data centers in Ohio to help power its artificial intelligence technology and other tools, the company and state officials announced. With one data center already up and running near Columbus, the two new locations will bring Google’s total investment in Ohio to more than $2 billion dollars. Ohio is seeing a wave of big investments by the technology industry. Intel is building a $20 billion dollar chip factory just east of Columbus, and Honda and LG Energy Solution of South Korea are building a $3.5 billion dollar battery plant between Columbus and Cincinnati that the automaker envisions as its North American electric vehicle hub. The area around Columbus also is home to data centers operated by Facebook and Amazon. The two new Google data centers will be built in Columbus and Lancaster.