Chuck Darwin<p>Power Failure: On Landscape and Abandonment</p><p>The power needs of Ohio’s <a href="https://c.im/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>data</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/centers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>centers</span></a> are already staggering, </p><p>but the near future is hard to even imagine. </p><p>By 2030, in Central Ohio alone, demand will skyrocket to more than 5,000 megawatts<br>—roughly equivalent to the power consumption of all of New York City. </p><p>That power must be delivered to those facilities somehow <br>-- And so along with the data centers, miles and miles of new high-voltage <a href="https://c.im/tags/transmission" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transmission</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/lines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lines</span></a> are needed in the state. </p><p>American Electric Power has chosen distressed farms and politically weak rural communities as sites to clear paths for more transmission lines, <br>and for good reason: </p><p>⚠️these communities have the least influence to resist such encroachment.</p><p><a href="https://longreads.com/2025/01/16/power-failure-on-landscape-and-abandonment/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">longreads.com/2025/01/16/power</span><span class="invisible">-failure-on-landscape-and-abandonment/</span></a></p>