Cologix Johnstown Campus

Capacity: announced vs energized

Announced-to-energized gap: 0.80 GW. Every figure below is a single dated, sourced claim. Current best per series resolves by evidence tier, then date. See the methodology.

Promised online: 2025. 9 months past the claimed date, with no energized capacity on record. Claimed by Cologix (source).

Key facts

Reported facts

Structured facts sourced from citations already on this record. Each fact traces to a source in the References section below.

154-acre / 800 MW / eight buildings (primary)

On Nov 20, 2024, Cologix announced it acquired land in Johnstown, Ohio, for a new AI-ready data center campus on approximately 154 acres, planned for eight AI-ready data centers at full build-out delivering a potential 800 MW of scalable capacity across 2.0 million square feet. First-phase development was anticipated to begin in 2025. Land was acquired from Johnstown Land Company, an affiliate of New Albany Company (Cologix, Nov 20 2024)

Over $7B investment framing (primary)

Cologix's Nov 20, 2024 campus announcement is framed on the company page as plans to invest over $7 billion to support hyperscale and AI-ready digital infrastructure in Central Ohio. Treat the dollar figure as company-stated investment framing for the broader Central Ohio AI-ready buildout tied to this release, not as an independently audited CAPEX total (Cologix, Nov 20 2024)

COL7 pre-lease / 36 MW facility (primary)

Cologix's COL7 facility page places COL7 on the Johnstown Campus at 12017 Duncan Plains Road, Johnstown, OH 43031, and lists site capacity of 36 MW, about 120K sq ft of DC space, three Scalelogix and one Digital Edge data halls, block-redundant power, and liquid-to-chip ready cooling with air-cooled chillers. The Columbus market page set marks COL7 and COL8 as available for pre-leasing (Cologix COL7)

COL8 Scalelogix / 21 MW (primary)

Cologix's COL8 facility page describes a purpose-built Scalelogix data center on the Johnstown Campus at 11719 Duncan Plains Road with site capacity of 21 MW, about 25K sq ft of DC space plus additional configurable shell, and liquid-cooling readiness for advanced workloads (Cologix COL8)

Columbus footprint / interconnection ecosystem (primary)

Cologix's Nov 20, 2024 Johnstown campus release states that with over a decade in Central Ohio it already operates four Columbus data centers totaling about 500,000 square feet and 80 MW, interconnected through a diverse fiber ring that includes Ohio's most comprehensive carrier hotel. The interconnection ecosystem is described as 50+ unique network and cloud providers, two public cloud onramps (AWS Direct Connect and Google Cloud Interconnect), and the Ohio IX internet exchange (Cologix, Nov 20 2024)

Land seller / Mayor Barnard support (primary)

Cologix says the Johnstown property was acquired from Johnstown Land Company, an affiliate of New Albany Company. Johnstown Mayor Donald Barnard is quoted welcoming the investment and framing updated local planning policies as a catalyst for the project (Cologix, Nov 20 2024)

Phase 1 start anticipated 2025 (primary)

Cologix states development of the first phase of the eight-building, 800 MW Johnstown campus is anticipated to begin in 2025, with further details on timeline, capacity, and AI-ready infrastructure to be shared as the project progresses (Cologix, Nov 20 2024)

On the data center map

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The deal

financier

JobsOhio · state economic-development backing cited

developer

Cologix

land owner

Johnstown Land Company · Affiliate of the New Albany Company; sold the 154 acres (price undisclosed).

utility

AEP Ohio · Local electric utility (PJM footprint) serving Licking County / Johnstown.

Power

Power source

grid

Grid operator

PJM

Interconnection

The PJM grid demand right now: 93.0 GW (EIA-930, 2026-10-02 04:00). Cologix Johnstown Campus's announced 0.80 GW would be 0.9% of the grid's current load.

County water status: No drought in Licking County, week of 2026-09-29 (US Drought Monitor). Data centers are large water users for cooling; this is the neutral local water picture.

Why here

Cologix Johnstown Campus sits on greenfield in Ohio, Johnstown. It connects to the PJM grid, draws on grid power. This siting summary is composed from the record's held fields, not speculation; see methodology.

Financial structure

Planned campus investment

$7B. Cologix plans to invest more than $7 billion to develop the Johnstown campus. company filing ↗

Regulatory paper trail

The filings and rules on record for this site and its jurisdiction, most recent first. Each is a sourced, dated artifact you can follow to the primary document.

Facilities at this campus

• COL7colocation
• COL8colocation
• Cologix Johnstown AI Campus800 MW
• Cologix Johnstown Campus800 MW

Timeline

1. Show 6 earlier updates
2. Aug 2026
   party added
   utility: AEP Ohio
3. Oct 2026
   Current: Announced

Sources

• Cologix Expands Central Ohio Footprint with Land Acquisition for New AI-Ready 800MW Data Center Campus ↗
• Cologix invests $7bn in Licking County, Ohio, data center campus ↗
• Colocation in Columbus: COL7 Data Center ↗
• COL8 Scalelogix Facility (Johnstown Campus) ↗

6f07a860-1b32-475f-b4ff-bc63bb17ca86 · Tracked with DEPLOY's verified-vs-claimed methodology. Every term is defined in the glossary. Announced numbers are claims, not built capacity.

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