For residents who’ll live with what gets built

A data center is bringing AI to your town. Make it explain itself.

Show Your Work leverages AI to see what a proposed data center could mean for your electric bill, water and community, and what to ask before decisions are made.

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Meta Bowling Green

Bowling Green, Ohio · 514 MW · Approved · under construction

Energy

Will this raise my electric bill?

The short answer

The available records do not establish what residents would pay. Meta says its gas-supplied power will not raise utility customers’ rates; BG Independent News reports that this information was not corroborated.

Source: BG Independent News ↗

What’s proposed

BG Independent News reports that the Ohio Power Siting Board approved a 350 MW gas plant next to the data center. Reported filings describe the planned plant as supplying power directly, without a physical grid connection.

Source: BG Independent News ↗

What’s unresolved

Meta also says it will pay for grid upgrades through its FirstEnergy partnership. The records do not state the amount, timing or how costs would be recovered. They do not establish a binding protection for other customers’ bills.

Source: BG Independent News ↗

What to ask next

Which service agreement sets the data center’s contracted grid load and who pays for the required upgrades?

Ask: Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, Toledo Edison / FirstEnergy, and Meta.

Six questions every community should ask.

See what the records establish, what’s still a promise, and what remains unknown.

“Even AI experts don’t understand the ins and outs of data centers. Residents shouldn’t have to walk into a hearing knowing only who to believe. They should know what to ask.”
— Sophia Bender Koning, builder of Show Your Work