Data centers in Stark County

Panattoni Development Co. purchased a 100 acre property near Faircrest Street SW and Kropf Avenue SW in Perry Township for a proposed 240 megawatt hyperscale data center, expected to be the largest taxpayer in Stark County, and the Stark County Regional Planning Commission has approved the project. On September 1, 2026 Stark County residents sued Perry Township trustees, Panattoni, and other local officials in state court, alleging Open Meetings Act violations in how the township's noise ordinance and a tax exemption resolution tied to the project were adopted. The lawsuit challenges the approval process, not the project's zoning itself, and has not changed its approved status.

Microsoft confirmed it is the company behind a proposed data center campus on up to 350 acres along state Route 75 between Breese and Hume roads in Perry Township.

The City of Canton has received early plans for proposed data centers on Millerton Street SE and Orchardview Drive SE, described by officials as still in the planning stages with the developers undisclosed. Canton City Council separately approved new citywide data center zoning regulations in an 8 to 3 vote after a packed, contentious public hearing where some residents were turned away for lack of room.

Project Shelby is a proposed roughly 320 megawatt, four building data center campus on the former Ford property near Marietta Avenue NE and Georgetown Road NE in Canton, a different site from the existing Millerton Street and Orchardview Drive proposal already tracked in Stark County. The developer, Panattoni Development Co, is the same firm behind the already approved Perry Township Faircrest project but this is a separate site and filing. No formally filed zoning application has been confirmed and no end user or tenant has been publicly disclosed as of early September 2026.