| The Residents Forced to Choose Amid Ohio's Tech Boom This article was featured in the Daily Prospect newsletter. Sign up for it here. NEW ALBANY, OHIO - As Karen Bucher, standing on her front porch, started to describe the noise she said keeps her and her husband up at night, a massive boom thundered across the few remaining fields around their subdivision in Licking County, Ohio. The Buchers' home is one of 37 in a loop around Bermuda Drive, now surrounded by data centers and construction sites owned by Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft, as well as a massive microchip factory being built by Intel. The Buchers and their neighbors are the last holdouts here in the New Albany epicenter of Ohio's tech and data center boom, but within a year, they said, they too will leave, and all their homes will be demolished. |
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