{"id":198285,"date":"2026-03-22T18:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T22:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/22\/softbank-and-aep-plan-massive-ohio-gas-fired-ai-data-center-campus\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T18:15:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T22:15:13","slug":"softbank-and-aep-plan-massive-ohio-gas-fired-ai-data-center-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/22\/softbank-and-aep-plan-massive-ohio-gas-fired-ai-data-center-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank and AEP plan massive Ohio gas-fired AI data center campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asahi.com\/ajw\/articles\/16439486\">SoftBank and AEP plan massive Ohio gas-fired AI data center campus<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asahi.com\/ajw\/articles\/16439486\">https:\/\/www.asahi.com\/ajw\/articles\/16439486<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-22 18:05:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.asahi.com\">www.asahi.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The U.S. Department of Energy has partnered with Japan&#8217;s SoftBank Group and electric utility AEP to construct a large gas-fired power plant and AI server warehouse in Ohio.<\/li>\n<li>The project, valued at $33.3 billion, is funded in part by a wider trade deal between the U.S. and Japan, committing $550 billion to projects aimed at reducing China&#8217;s dominance in electronic components.<\/li>\n<li>SB Energy, a SoftBank unit, plans to connect a 9.2-gigawatt gas plant to the local grid to power the new data center at the Portsmouth site in Pike County, Ohio.<\/li>\n<li>The arrangement involves upgrading and building transmission lines in southern Ohio, with combined investments totaling $4.2 billion.<\/li>\n<li>The initiative aims to support U.S. artificial intelligence leadership, secures energy and computing capacity, and seeks to balance the financial burden of data centers more equitably.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SoftBank and AEP plan massive Ohio gas-fired AI data center campus https:\/\/www.asahi.com\/ajw\/articles\/16439486 Publish Date: 2026-03-22&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":198286,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/p.potaufeu.asahi.com\/cbcf-p\/picture\/30645211\/3bb799fbe7cdbe42d4c4bd8c1ec85b0f.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-198285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198287,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198285\/revisions\/198287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}