(Columbus Dispatch) - Microsoft has abandoned its $1 billion data center project in Licking County, Ohio, citing a strategic investment review. @dispatch.com $MSFT www.dispatch.com/story/busine... - ThreadSky

carlquintanilla.bsky.social • 53 days ago

(Columbus Dispatch) - Microsoft has abandoned its $1 billion data center project in Licking County, Ohio, citing a strategic investment review.

@dispatch.com $MSFT
https://www.dispatch.com/story/business/2025/04/07/microsoft-backs-out-of-plans-to-build-data-centers-in-licking-county/82973097007/

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tlarson28.bsky.social•53 days ago

As if Ohio wasn’t shitty enough 💩

rrrvvvwww.bsky.social•53 days ago

Whoops!

gravity44.bsky.social•53 days ago

More winning!

pollyannat.bsky.social•53 days ago

maybe they can't afford it with the tariffs? between losing all the money from the stocks going down and prices of building going up.

richardlaya.bsky.social•53 days ago

Ohio is just Florida without ocean front property. Racist and not governed by particularly bright people.

johnnyscience1.bsky.social•52 days ago

Hey! I live in Ohio… and I agree 💯

richardlaya.bsky.social•52 days ago

Sorry for you. How are the cats and the dogs?

johnnyscience1.bsky.social•52 days ago

Contrary to what we’ve been told, they seem to be quite fine, thanks for asking 😆

mikeymartin70.bsky.social•53 days ago

itismashagain.bsky.social•53 days ago

The AI insanity is coming to a quicker end due to Trump’s insane tariffs.

whiteroseresist.bsky.social•53 days ago

Here we go…

dwaynefuhlhage.bsky.social•53 days ago

Despite at 15-year 100% tax abatement
https://www.wosu.org/2024-10-02/new-albany-city-council-approves-15-year-tax-break-for-420-million-microsoft-data-center

guitarsparky.bsky.social•53 days ago

Is there anyone in place to keep the economy from crashing like 2008 and Covid. When credit markets freeze we need to make sure the banks get help. It won’t come from trump

williamwillyloman.bsky.social•53 days ago

@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

Let’s not overlook this, too…

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/08/climate/steel-project-federal-cuts-middletown-ohio/index.html?cid=ios_app

turboe4truth.bsky.social•53 days ago

But trump is going to bring back steel!!!!! Lolololol.

mxtdoliver.bsky.social•53 days ago

I'm pretty sure that's called "not winning" in economics.

jeromyo.bsky.social•53 days ago

Lock Him Up, etc?

dennis-101.bsky.social•53 days ago

Is that a red state?

rollingnscratching.bsky.social•53 days ago

Yup. Voted trump, gov red, senators red.

There are some blue areas.

l-edwards.bsky.social•53 days ago

This gonna be the 2025 headline, day after day.

jazzcomposer.bsky.social•53 days ago

In my opinion, many companies are finding that genAI is a disappointment since correct output can never be better than the model, plus genAI produces hallucinations.

Has the genAI bubble started to burst?

Read the "Reduce Hallucinations" section at the bottom of:

https://www.llama.com/docs/how-to-guides/prompting/

devikk.bsky.social•53 days ago

And so it begins all of the jobs in the economy that was humming along under Biden is hitting a brick wall.

Make sure you remind all the maggots in your family at the generational decline that’s upon them.

And also remind those who didn’t vote that this shit bag they’ll hand down for generations 🖕🏽

samonek.bsky.social•53 days ago

Biting my tongue because as a Californian I know what it's like for random internet people to spew hate about my state but....

tamrg.bsky.social•53 days ago

Don’t bother, us Ohioans with brains know it’s a shit show here, we’ve got it coming. Worse bc the state gov’t thinks there’s a MAGA mandate now and are being more idiotic than usual.

muirwithin.bsky.social•53 days ago

First Intel, now MSFT. The Ohio tech renaissance now relies on a guy with a mullet in flip flops who calls himself the “Elon Musk of missiles”

phxflyer.bsky.social•53 days ago

People in Ohio can than Trump, Vance and the republicans for this.

phxflyer.bsky.social•53 days ago

*thank*

Fat thumbs

bobbymax716.bsky.social•53 days ago

Way to go Ohio ....Pretenders - Chrissie Hynde.

starlightwishes.bsky.social•53 days ago

@edzitron.com thinks it's likely that AI is getting kicked to the curb. At least until it grows up. Come back in 2 or 3 decades.

oldblueblood.bsky.social•53 days ago

Hope so.

redmist27.bsky.social•53 days ago

Move your data center to Canada #microsoft

lakerider.bsky.social•53 days ago

How the hell are they supposed to get chips?

mira-sorrel.bsky.social•53 days ago

Perhaps Microsoft is expecting that US will not need a lot of data processing in the near future.

turboe4truth.bsky.social•53 days ago

lol. Tariffs. Working so well.

kymstress5.bsky.social•53 days ago

BS! Nobodys buying that. These billionaires need to experience a "Trading Places" situation so they can find their moral compass.

scuffleuffagus.bsky.social•53 days ago

LIcking County, OH 2024 Election Result:

Donald J. Trump and JD Vance - 64.20%

🤷‍♀️

bookersghost.bsky.social•53 days ago

bird-nerdco.bsky.social•53 days ago

Slack-jawed mouth-breathing lard ass

cbusdms.bsky.social•53 days ago

Columbus, OH here: Is this the winning that we were promised?

travelprose.bsky.social•53 days ago

Please tell me this will let me go back to Office 2007 . The last time I understood how to use my Word and Excel program. 🙏

spicymixofsweet.bsky.social•53 days ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣

kingcanoga.bsky.social•53 days ago

Licking county. lol.

lucasaurelius.bsky.social•53 days ago

Good.

devokneivel.bsky.social•53 days ago

They should put it in Canada, where building materials, copper and electricity are cheap.

dmiskiel.bsky.social•53 days ago

The first of many.

mtannenbaum.bsky.social•53 days ago

GOP districts in the Midwest going to see a CAPEX recession of epic proportions.

gripnoir.bsky.social•52 days ago

The old "Strategic Investment Review" euphemism. Probably more accurate to say the effort has, what's the term? Oh yes, "paused." https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-trump-deportation-salvador-maryland-40136c5aa844b6c12ba20ee67ab4df9a

filetofsoul312.bsky.social•53 days ago

pre3chorded.bsky.social•53 days ago

Gonna produce eggs instead

raventerp1.bsky.social•53 days ago

Maybe they might want to move to a blue state.....

leeleeuniteamerica.bsky.social•53 days ago

Everything seems totally fine in Trumpland.

noshadylady.bsky.social•53 days ago

Ngl love this for ohio

44lights.bsky.social•53 days ago

Way to go Ohio.

Idiots.

thom6502.bsky.social•53 days ago

I think they have to close some datacenters.

scrapplehaggis.bsky.social•53 days ago

Gee, I wonder why? https://www.cleveland.com/open/2025/03/dewine-signs-bill-to-end-dei-and-indoctrination-on-campus-ban-faculty-strikes.html?outputType=amp

annleftwapo.bsky.social•53 days ago

This was inevitable. Tenured professors were fired under the guise of loss of funds due to Covid. So glad I retired early.

https://www.dispatch.com/story/opinion/columns/guest/2022/01/24/opinion-what-did-ohios-universities-did-wrong-during-pandemic/6592389001/

links-dad.bsky.social•53 days ago

Good. Let the red states reap the fruits of their votes.

stablegeenyus.bsky.social•53 days ago

Born and raised in Ohio. Love my state, hate the corrupt government. 44% of us didn't vote for that bastard.

links-dad.bsky.social•53 days ago

I know, and I understand, I do. But holy hell something needs to happen to wake up 5-10% of these states to get that electorate to see none of this is in their best interest.

patresha10.bsky.social•53 days ago

Can’t blame them in this current disastrous political climate 🤷‍♀️

michelson.bsky.social•53 days ago

I'd like to know when they bail on their Three Mile Island investment.

lifeinfuquayvarina.bsky.social•53 days ago

Anything to do
With Coal?

swgeneralmills.bsky.social•53 days ago

Just cite the asinine tariffs.

mungomortimer.bsky.social•53 days ago

That type of project will never return to Ohio. Maybe Ohio can open up an I-Phone store!!!! MAGA!!!

patresha10.bsky.social•53 days ago

lol 😂

tamrg.bsky.social•53 days ago

Store? No one will be able to afford them. More like iPhone screw factory, if we’re lucky.

mungomortimer.bsky.social•53 days ago

LOL

notrebecca.bsky.social•53 days ago

Thanks to Hair Fuhrer and that Lutnick idiot, iPhones will soon cost $4K.

cathyedwards24.bsky.social•53 days ago

Blame the #OHGOP

martinaenglington.bsky.social•53 days ago

They’re converting the proposal to chicken hatchery instead.

kaithar.bsky.social•53 days ago

I'm going to... tentatively... put 3 details in proximity and let others draw their conclusions: 1/ Most of the big DC builds lately have been explicitly AI capacity. 2/ LLM AI is a fad bubble that is overdue for a spectacular implosion. 3/ Gimmicks are often early targets for cost-cutting.

bhegerle.bsky.social•53 days ago

Cost of servers shot up 104%, strangely.

kirisaki.moe.observer•53 days ago

I'm not sure GPU's costing more figure well into this strategic investment

zelderberry.bsky.social•53 days ago

Microsoft relocation to Toronto in the works.

rubenkelevra.bsky.social•53 days ago

Makes sense. Most customers are outside the US. :)

bobhawaii.bsky.social•53 days ago

Good

msbmoran.bsky.social•53 days ago

But hey Ohio got to own the libs, which is a much bigger deal right @ohiocapitaljournal.com @ohiosenatedems.bsky.social

resipsaloq.bsky.social•53 days ago

Hard to give a shit about a state that gave us Trump, JD Vance and b Ernie used car piece of shit salesman Moreno over Sherrod Brown and Tim Ryan. Yeah, too bad Magats, those would have been some fine paying secure jobs for you. You sure owned us. Thoughts and prayers.

tamrg.bsky.social•53 days ago

Ohio federal reps are also totally MIA right now, unsurprisingly. Licking surely voted heavy for Trump, hope they enjoy what they (don’t) get. State gov’t now taking its cues from MAGA as well, and I’m afraid folks here aren’t smart enough to vote the state GOP out.

annleftwapo.bsky.social•53 days ago

State government and Householder.

sdowns.bsky.social•53 days ago

They will blame Biden and the dems. Many of them are too far gone to see they voted against their best interests again.

notrebecca.bsky.social•53 days ago

I will never understand the MAGA in Ohio who tend to have an affinity for awkward closeted men.

punkiehatestherain.bsky.social•53 days ago

I live in Licking County. I voted for Harris. We libs are here, and we care. Intel is sitting 1/4 finished, on top of my family's home. The lives that were ripped apart. The small farms and neighbors are gone, and now what to do with all that land? Wexner and his New Albany co have a plan. 🫥

dconrad.bsky.social•53 days ago

I'm sorry. That's terrible. I feel for you, and I have decided to abandon my plan to jokingly ask about their other project in "Stroking County" (sorry)

punkiehatestherain.bsky.social•53 days ago

Lol! Believe me, I've heard it all!😂

punkiehatestherain.bsky.social•53 days ago

This is a big revenue haul for the New Albany Co. They annexed all that land, and the taxes are higher than licking county. People actually think farming is coming back! Farmers can't afford the land now. It's a mess that trump created. And the majority voted for him.😐

oldgamernerd.bsky.social•53 days ago

One needs to be self aware in order to avoid the sort of self inflicted wounds that the Republicans keep inflicting upon themselves.
If being forced to sell the family farm counts as winning, what do they consider losing?

notrebecca.bsky.social•53 days ago

It's frustrating when people vote MAGA, i.e., against their own interests, because they screw other people over too.

martinaenglington.bsky.social•53 days ago

Don’t forget gym Jordan.

essayjenkins.bsky.social•53 days ago

Millions of Harris voters still live here. We're deeply gerrymandered, and we passed laws to stop it. But SCOTUS, and our state GOP is keeping us from correcting it.

resipsaloq.bsky.social•53 days ago

Yes, that's a tough battle. . It's the reason Jim Jordan exists. But maybe losing everything g will get Dems back in power again. Then they need to learn how to keep it. But that doesn't explain trump or moreno or Vance. You still have a lot of cult there . Wish you well in the battle!

stablegeenyus.bsky.social•53 days ago

Hey now. We didn't all vote for those scumbags. Plenty of resisters here fighting the good fight. It's a full-time job with the level of corruption we have down in Columbus.

eheart.bsky.social•53 days ago

I was born and raised my kids in Ohio and left for husband’s job at 49. Now living in NC and struggling to finally turn my new state blue. Ohio is dead to me. The majority took the fascism train to Trumptown.

resipsaloq.bsky.social•53 days ago

I have high hopes for NC!

eheart.bsky.social•53 days ago

I did, but with the cheating the Republicans are doing and the SAVE Act they will vote for, they’re going to make sure we cannot vote.

murgatroidbonbon.bsky.social•53 days ago

scottishelena.bsky.social•53 days ago

The only good thing that will come from this is that AI will finally fucking die.

onecommonsensemom.bsky.social•53 days ago

Vance: I am eating your jobs. I’m an eating your retirement.

lenday.bsky.social•53 days ago

So much winning............................

moray76.bsky.social•53 days ago

A big blow to JD Vance country.

nboyer.bsky.social•53 days ago

Now Columbus-area residents can make Nike’s instead. And all the frackers who were VERY excited about selling their natural gas to Microsoft’s data center are screwed. Those laid off gas workers can put screws in iPhones. #FaceEating🐆 🐆 🐆

oldblueblood.bsky.social•53 days ago

🤣😂

joanniespeaks.bsky.social•53 days ago

It’s happening.

gregmussio.bsky.social•53 days ago

I went back to Ohio
But my pretty countryside
Had been paved down the middle
By a government that had no pride

The farms of Ohio
Had been replaced by shopping malls
And Muzak filled the air
From Seneca to Cuyahoga Falls

Said, ay, oh, way to go, Ohio

epluribus.bsky.social•52 days ago

OH is a wasteland after the GOP meth fire

retainingwater.bsky.social•53 days ago

Trumponomics

oldblueblood.bsky.social•53 days ago

When does the bankruptcy come?

wiese2154.bsky.social•53 days ago

Everything Peter Navarro knows about free trade, he learned the hard way in prison.

bethmeacham.bsky.social•53 days ago

Oh look, my MAGA infested birthplace gets screwed.

dee1di.bsky.social•53 days ago

Isn't that state red?

So, they should be okay with the lost jobs.....

Many companies will start holding back spending money.....

getinformed23.bsky.social•53 days ago

The fallout from this self inflicted calamity by an elected, mentally diminished conman will get worse. Brace for it. Nobody will be left unscathed

notrebecca.bsky.social•53 days ago

"...citing a strategic investment review." i.e., it's going to be too expensive under Trump's Recession/Depression/Tariff Clusterfuck

armywife33.bsky.social•53 days ago

Microsoft should invest in communities where their workers might actually want to live. Young women and couples starting families are not going to want to live in a state that has lawmakers who want to end their reproductive rights.