COLUMBUS, Ohio - Two companies are asking the Ohio Supreme Court not to dismiss the case of an AI data center being built in the Village of Lordstown.

This issue was taken to the Ohio Supreme Court earlier in November, where companies Bristolville 25 Developer LLC and BHGH Properties LLC asked the court to order the Village of Lordstown to review and act on their plan for the data center.

However, Lordstown Solicitor Matthew Ries told 21 News that the reason they haven't reviewed the companies' proposal yet was that it was "barebones" and engineers were missing information.

Court documents filed on Monday, November 24 state that the information that the solicitor claimed was missing is required in step two of the village's site plan review process, which can only happen after the village engineer is engaged on the project through a work authorization.

"The village has a clear legal duty to provide the work authorization before demanding step two materials, but the village is demanding those materials anyway. And two village officials, [Kellie] Bordner and Mr. Ries, have separately told Bristolville in writing that its initiation of the zoning process is futile because Bristolville's project was effectively dead on arrival, as it will be banned on an ordinance yet to go into effect," the filing reads.

The ordinance in question was an ordinance passed on November 4 to ban data centers in the village. However, that ban doesn't go into effect until December 4.

On top of that, the companies are arguing that their plans for the data center date back to October 20, before the ordinance was even passed, so zoning laws would have permitted the data center at the time.

The companies further argue that no case law exists to support dismissing the case.

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