Landowners Take Note: Data Center Buyouts Are Not Royalty Checks

At the Aug. 27 open house for the Piketon power project, an SB Energy poster showing an aerial view of the site drew the biggest crowd in the gym. It wasn't the environmental impact board or the electricity charts. It was the map — because it showed people their own houses. The Columbus Dispatch was in the room. What its reporter found is a story MDN readers are going to see repeated across Ohio over the next decade, and it is worth understanding clearly before it lands in your county and before you get a knock on your door asking if you want to sell.

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