1 Who is actually building this? Reading a deed · cross-document entity resolution 2 How it was assembled & hidden Reading an options-to-assignment chain · the confidentiality-first sequence 3 How big is it — and what won't they tell you? Reading an air permit · recognizing a CBI redaction 4 What it does to the water Reading an NPDES permit · the 7Q10 low-flow screen 5 What it costs the public Reading a cost estimate · reading a contract clause 6 Why you had to dig for this Reading statutory exemptions
Public record · Lima, Ohio
A 340-acre data center,
built to be invisible.
A Delaware shell. Withheld land prices. 114 backup generators. A consumptive cooling loss that dwarfs a river running at 0.2 cfs. The record was made thin on purpose — here it's reassembled in the open, and every figure is checkable.
The primary artifact · for the resident & the official Read the impact study
The environmental and economic study that should precede any abatement or rezoning —
assembled from the public record. Where the record is silent, the silence is the finding.
14 of 15 chapters on the record · 1 gap named
Open the study →
For the researcher 3,382 files
Browse the record
Straight to the documents, records, timeline, and entities. Provenance-first;
follow any citation to its source.
Enter the library → For the newcomer 6 chapters · ~18 min
Read the story
A path that teaches you to read the record one document at a time — no jargon, no
prior knowledge.
▶ Start the story → The corpus at a glance
Source files
3,382
21 collections
Records
160
deeds · permits · filings
Timeline events
232
dated
Entities & places
90
83 relationships
Essays
12
long-form
Pre-launch. Assembled from public records the developer didn't write.
Sourced figures carry their citation; open leads
stay labeled as [inference] until a source corroborates them. Nothing here
is legal advice or a verdict — verify every figure against its cited source.