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WVXU ·The Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate responded to questions on top issues during a Columbus public forum. The post Vivek Ramaswamy talks gun control, death penalty, data centers and more appeared first on Signal Cleveland .
Signal Cleveland ·The proposal has been in the works for almost two years, but the identity of the company looking to buy 2,900 acres in Mason County has been shrouded by non-disclosure agreements.
WVXU ·Data centers have become a major Ohio campaign issue, with related ballot measures in 18 counties, polls showing broad local opposition, and both governor candidates calling for limits.
WVXU ·AgrAbility connects aging and injured Ohio farmers with the free assistive technology they need to stay out in the fields.
WOSU ·An NSF-funded nine-week AI research program placed students from Sinclair, Tri-C, Ohio State and Northwest State on projects with CWRU, Ohio State, UC and OSC mentors.
Ohio Supercomputer Center ·A Scioto Analysis cost-benefit study ranked a mostly-renewable power requirement first and a construction ban second for new Ohio data centers, with current policy barely breaking even.
Ohio Capital Journal ·Miami University trustees approved a new Center for AI under the provost. It will provide AI resources, build external partnerships and help plan an April 2027 AI conference in Oxford.
Miami University ·Eight startups from UC's Venture Lab accelerator pitched at the 1819 Innovation Hub's Demo Day, including AI tools for short-form video production and circuit board debugging.
University of Cincinnati ·Cincinnati fintech Payload, based at UC's 1819 Innovation Hub, raised a $9M Series A led by Fifth Third, its first major outside funding, as it nears about $6B in yearly payment volume.
University of Cincinnati ·CWRU added new academic programs, including an applied AI minor, BA/BS and post-baccalaureate options in artificial intelligence, and new data science degrees.
Case Western Reserve University ·The Ohio Supreme Court blocked a citizen initiative that would have let residents sue data centers over noise and water standards; it targeted a proposed $4B AWS facility in Wilmington.
FOX19 ·Lima paused data center construction and new outside water requests for 18 months while it writes standards, leaving its existing water deal with a Google project in American Township in place.
GovTech (via The Lima News) ·JobsOhio's data and AI chief says worker AI literacy, not computing power or capital, is Ohio's biggest competitive gap; the AI Ready Ohio training program aims to reach 10 cities next year.
Axios Columbus ·Columbus venture studio Rev1 Ventures named Jennifer Hankins, formerly of Tulsa Innovation Labs, as CEO, noting it was the top Ohio entry on TIME's first list of best U.S. incubators and accelerators.
Rev1 Ventures ·Youngstown drone maker Agilis Air raised $1.4M from investors including AgEagle and North Coast Ventures to ramp production and develop autonomy for GPS-denied environments.
PR Newswire ·JobsOhio reports strong momentum for the free AI Ready Ohio program, which is working toward 3,000 new certifications in 2026, as Columbus AI Week hosted training for staff from 250+ organizations.
JobsOhio ·The Ohio Supreme Court ordered Trenton to let voters decide on a resident-led ban on large data centers, with residents citing aquifer and electric-cost worries and city leaders pointing to economic benefits.
Spectrum News 1 ·Sonic Fire Tech, a Cleveland company using sensors and infrasound to put out flames, raised $15M in a round led by The O.H.I.O. Fund with Khosla Ventures to scale certification and manufacturing.
Axios Cleveland ·Beam Benefits co-founder Alex Frommeyer's new Columbus startup, Stack, raised a $21M seed led by 8VC and A*, with Heartland Ventures and The O.H.I.O. Fund, for its employer health-benefits platform.
Axios Columbus ·UC is a partner on a $40M U.S. Department of Labor award led by Jobs for the Future to expand registered apprenticeships for jobs that build and maintain AI, semiconductor and nuclear infrastructure.
University of Cincinnati ·Cleveland Clinic and CHIME held an AI summit with more than 900 registrants, covering AI in diagnostics, clinical care, research and medical education, plus ethics and bias concerns.
Cleveland Clinic ·Intel says its roughly $28B Ohio One campus is still on track for a first fab by 2031, though local officials know of no equipment orders yet and it's unclear who will run the plant.
WOSU ·OpenAI agreed to about 8 GW of AI computing capacity at the PORTS-Pike campus in Pike County with SB Energy and NVIDIA, projecting 35,000 construction jobs and 2,500 long-term jobs.
OpenAI ·Columbus City Schools will use approved AI tools this year under a policy based on the state model, after Ohio required every district to adopt an AI policy by July 1, 2026.
ABC6 ·Through its AI in the Majors initiative, Miami will add field-specific AI skills to every department. The first 13 departments start in fall 2026, and the rest follow by 2027-28.
Miami University ·PUCO now requires data centers to give AEP Ohio 180 days' notice before returning to default service and to pay the full cost of that power so other customers don't absorb it.
Spectrum News 1 ·Columbus-based RWX, which builds CI/CD and testing infrastructure for AI coding agents, closed a $12M Series A led by Hyde Park Venture Partners, with The O.H.I.O. Fund participating.
Business Wire ·UC added Anthropic's Claude as a model option in its BearcatsGPT platform for teaching, research and operations, limited to public-classified university data.
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