Posted on 01/23/2026 6:12:56 AM PST by DFG
Residents of a small town in Ohio are furious that the state has approved a power plant that would generate more than a million pounds of climate-warming carbon dioxide emissions daily, according to documents reviewed by the Daily Mail.
Hilliard, a town of nearly 39,000 people, will soon be home to a 73-megawatt natural gas fuel cell system that will power a fleet of data centers for Amazon Web Services. The company said the fuel cells are needed to sustain electricity consumption for planned expansions to these data centers.
Fuel cells convert the methane in natural gas into electricity without combustion, a process that causes energy loss due to heat output. That's why proponents say they are more efficient than traditional combustion engines.
This does not mean fuel cells are a strictly clean form of energy. The project's 228 fuel cells will emit up to 1.45 million pounds of CO₂ a day, according to a disclosure from the city of Hilliard.
It appears the city arrived at this number by evaluating the proposal, which states that the fuel cell system, manufactured by Bloom Energy, will emit anywhere from 679 pounds to 833 pounds of CO₂ per megawatt-hour (MWh).
Over the course of 24 hours of regular operation, the facility will emit 1.19 million pounds of CO₂ on the low end, and about 1.46 million pounds of CO₂ on the high end, exactly lining up with what the city of Hilliard has claimed.
The city has requested that Amazon or AEP Ohio, the public utility company that will run the plant, include carbon capture technology to lessen emissions.
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Is Amazon gonna share some of that power with the town or is it all for Amazon?
Oh for God’s sake this is what the people are worried about, the carbon emissions? And they want them to pipe the carbon dioxide to Underground facilities? This is what liberals do waste all of our time energy and money on nonsense.
“No Power Plants Without Representation”
Great news for Ohio. Now build 10 more. Mmm I wonder what the school board and unionized teachers are saying about the property tax revenue.
Why capture the co2? The plants can use it and Ohio is still a farm state.
“The grass will be greener on the other side.”
Or “Oh my God, these generators are producing plant food!”
Good lord. When did Americans become such wussies.
CO2 feeds plants and has no effect on the weather. Fear is a powerful Communist tool.
“ Oh for God’s sake this is what the people are worried about,”
No this is what a few nut jobs and the UK Daily Mail is worried about.
I had a good friend who lived close to a nuclear power plant for years. If you aren’t afraid of the plant, its a sweet deal. Almost zero property taxes and the roads and utilities were always very well kept.
That is exactly what I was thinking...as long as it wasn’t in direct eyeshot of my backyard, I would be grateful, especially in my tax and spend town and state.
These people are retards. When they started to blather about poisonous C02 back in the Nineties, we should have laughed them off the stage. We didn’t, and look where we are now.
They have indoctrinated entire generations with this pap.
Because when you make an investment you have an obligation to give part of the returns away?
Do you do that?
“Is Amazon gonna share some of that power with the town or is it all for Amazon?”
My neighbor works for the power company at the generating plant. He said they have a billion dollar contract to expand the plant to power an AI facility. I believe all of the new power will be for the AI facility.
The Louiswu wrote: “Is Amazon gonna share some of that power with the town or is it all for Amazon?”
If the town wants a share, then the town needs to share the expense. The town will receive many jobs from the construction and operation of the power plant.
I wonder how they weigh the CO2. If it is that heavy it will bury the plant.
How do they weight the helium?
EC
It is a fast-growing affluent white collar suburb which lies northwest of the city of Columbus in Franklin County. Like most of northern Franklin County, it is upscale and once-upon-a-time was solidly Republican (so was Columbus, believe it or not) but not anymore.
Hilliard voted against Trump 3 times and even more heavily against J.D. Vance and Bernie Moreno. You get what you vote for, Hilliard; get ready to glow in the dark, LOL.
“This does not mean fuel cells are a strictly clean form of energy. The project’s 228 fuel cells will emit up to 1.45 million pounds of CO₂ a day, according to a disclosure from the city of Hilliard.”
Are the people in Hilliard in danger of suffocation from the CO2? If not, it looks like the tentacles of the Left have reached that town.
no chance that the people of this town are worried about carbon emmissions.
Yep. Hillard is an AWFL town.
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