J5 LLC Piqua Data Center Campus (Washington Road)

J5 LLC hyperscale data center campus — planned facility on 607.7 acres at Farrington and Washington roads

Announced last observed as of 2026-10-06 · Project announcement

Resolution R-107-26 and its staff report (meeting date 15 September 2026): under the Development Agreement and Water and Wastewater Agreement (Resolution R-114-25) and the Electrical Services Agreement (Resolution R-80-26), the city will build water and electrical infrastructure 'supporting the J5 LLC d/b/a Shaytura LLC data center project'; J5, LLC d/b/a Shaytura LLC conveys Inlot 9312 (parcel N44-101868, 0.987 acres) and Inlot 9314 (parcel N44-101870, 0.386 acres), carved out of its 607-acre purchase, for a water booster station and an electric substation. evidence

City of Piqua, Ohio (City Commission, via CivicClerk) · published 2026-09-15

The Economic Development staff report and text of Ordinance O-7-26 (AES Ohio franchise) state that 'J5 LLC is a hyperscale data center operator that intends to construct a facility that will be located on 607.656 acres of land located at the northeast corner of the intersection of Farrington Road and Washington Road, in Piqua, Ohio', which seeks a direct connection to the interstate transmission grid. The ordinance was passed on 18 August 2026 (as recorded in Ordinance O-19-26). evidence

City of Piqua, Ohio (City Commission, via CivicClerk) · published 2026-08-03

Draft minutes of the 11 August 2026 public hearing on Ordinance O-7-26 record the city power system's staff explanation that the data center needs a 138 kV transmission connection the city lacks and that 'the project is requesting 1400 megawatts for their operational load', with about 10 MW for construction served on the city network, and that J5, LLC is a counterparty to the AES Ohio agreements. Draft minutes of the 18 August meeting record the third reading and passage of O-7-26 (30-year AES Ohio franchise to serve J5 LLC, with a $1 million annual franchise fee). evidence

City of Piqua, Ohio (City Commission, via CivicClerk) · published 2026-08-31

Draft minutes of the 6 October 2026 meeting record approval of Resolution R-109-26 (Washington Road improvements, $529,223 low bid, reimbursed from the J5-funded escrow) and the commission's vote not to repeal Ordinance O-7-26, sending the franchise referendum to a special election on 2 February 2027. Later-status context: no data-centre construction, withdrawal or cancellation is recorded. evidence

City of Piqua, Ohio (City Commission, via CivicClerk) · published 2026-10-20

The web map definition lists the 'parcel_joined' feature service (services3.arcgis.com/wCWf4EGMg4PzHwzA) used for the locator as its parcel layer, alongside the tract layers of the same organisation and the State of Ohio county boundaries. The organisation is identified as Miami County, Ohio by its portal record (source us-midwest-east-p1-agol-portal-miami-oh). evidence

Miami County, Ohio (County GIS) · publication date not stated

The public ArcGIS Online portal record for organisation wCWf4EGMg4PzHwzA, the organisation id in the parcel_joined feature-service URL used for the J5 LLC locator, names the organisation 'Miami County, Ohio' (url key 'MiamiCountyOhio'), identifying the county as the publisher of the parcel geometry. evidence

Miami County, Ohio (County GIS) · publication date not stated

Companies

• Owner: J5 LLC (current) evidence
• Operator: J5 LLC (d/b/a Shaytura LLC) (intended) evidence