Midway Energy & Technology District

A building full of computers that store and process information for other companies: the websites, apps, banking, streaming, hospital records, emergency dispatch and AI services people use. It is not an office. Very few people work inside one relative to its size, and it runs 24 hours a day.

No. A hyperscale campus runs several hundred megawatts. This plant is 150 megawatts, and is sized for co-location: power generation built alongside one computing campus that buys its output directly, in the 20 to 120 megawatt range.

No end user has been proposed or agreed to. No contract exists and no company has been selected. What we can tell you is the categories of buyer a co-located site this size is built for, and roughly what each one draws. The ranges below are typical demand for each category of facility:

Two things to read from that table. The upper end of every range sits below the plant's 150 MW: the generation is sized to one campus rather than to a share of the grid. The eventual operator would need its own approvals from the city, in public.

The county was advertising it. In November 2025 we answered a public listing for industrially zoned land near US 23/30, land the city rezoned to General Manufacturing in May 2024.

No. We hold an option: a paid right to buy the land at an agreed price from a local family, exercised at the time of approval. Until then we do not own it, and the family does. The commercial terms are confidential under our agreement with the owner. Any purchase becomes public record at the county.

Without approval the option lapses and the land stays with its owner. If our option lapses, the zoning does not revert and the listing does not come down. What gets built there is a question for the city, with or without us.

The 150 MW is generated on the site and delivered directly to the user, behind the meter. We are not asking AEP for 150 MW of new large-load capacity and we are not asking for a large-load tariff. For the generation, the mechanism that drives the increases shared widely today is not a factor in our project.

Not for grid capacity, for the reason above: the generation is being built with the load rather than taken from what exists.

Expected daily use

The site listing we worked from cited over a million gallons a day available. That figure dates to 2021, and is not a current number:

From November 2026, another industrial user takes up the remaining capacity of the existing water treatment plant. The city is working with that user to expand the plant. The expansion would cover that user's needs and return roughly 150,000 gallons a day of spare capacity to the city. That expansion uses up what the existing plant can be expanded to. Beyond it, more capacity means building a second treatment plant.

Natural gas, burned in reciprocating engines, is subject to federal emissions standards for stationary engines. Final numbers depend on the final engine selection, which does not exist yet.

What is settled is which process applies: an Ohio Power Siting Board certificate, plus an Ohio EPA air permit. The air permit must be issued before ground is broken or any engine is installed, and it must demonstrate Best Available Technology for whatever class the plant falls in.

When you see the real numbers, and how to object

Ohio EPA publishes a draft permit for public comment before any permit is final, with its own engineering evaluation showing the calculations. Subscribe at epa.ohio.gov/public-noticesfor Wyandot County and you'll be told the day a draft is issued and when comments close. If you don't comment during that window, you generally lose your standing to appeal the permit later.

A first look is already done. On August 27 and 28, 2026 we measured ambient sound at six positions around the site, day and night: 64 dBA in the daytime and 59 dBA at night. That was a screening pass with a NIOSH meter, not a compliance measurement, and late-summer readings run high because of insect noise. We will hold ourselves to the lower winter number.

Here is the sequence from here, and what gets published at each step:

• Before Council votes.A preliminary sound model, published, showing the plant's contribution at the nearest home in dBA and dBC, with an updated site layout if the model calls for one.
• After first frost. A Class 1 calibrated baseline by an INCE-certified acoustician, measured once insect season ends so the quietest condition sets the baseline. Published on this website.
• With the permit. The final acoustic study, filed as a permit condition. Exceed it and the plant is in violation.
• After construction. Verification at the same six positions, published.

The peer reviewer is chosen by the City and paid by Smartland Energy. If the model exceeds the sound limit, we redesign before we build.

We support a project ordinance setting 55 dBA at the closest receptor as the standard our equipment is designed to meet, with baseline monitoring before construction and verification testing after.

The Ohio Power Siting Board reviews noise as part of deciding whether this plant can be built at all, and it can attach binding conditions to its certificate. A comparable 350 MW behind-the-meter plant in Wood County was approved in February 2026 with 34 conditions attached. Those conditions are enforceable.

Once operating, noise from a permitted source is an Ohio EPA complaint matter. The city can also attach its own conditions on the data center side through zoning.

At the average through the build there would be roughly 660 workers on site on a working day, with peaks higher. Haul routes get planned with the county engineer to keep them off residential streets. Once running, the plant is a small permanent staff commuting in, fuel arriving by pipeline rather than truck, and occasional maintenance.

Two separate approvals:

1. The City of Upper Sandusky decides what land uses are allowed here, and controls the water, by ordinance.
2. The State of Ohio. The Ohio Power Siting Board decides whether a plant this size may be built at all: 50 MW is the trigger and this is 150 MW, with no behind-the-meter exemption in the statute. A staff investigation, a public hearing in or near this county at which any person may testify, and eight findings the Board must make, including minimum environmental impact and an express finding on farmland.