Trenton, OH City Council Approves 15-Year 75% Tax Abatement for Prologis 250 MW Data Center Campus

Trenton, Ohio City Council approved a 15-year, 75% property tax abatement for Prologis to build a 250 MW data center campus — four buildings on 140 acres, including a dedicated electrical substation. Butler County had no prior data-center heat score; this is an emerging site. Prologis is the developer of record; the end-use hyperscaler tenant has not been publicly disclosed.

The abatement structure — public infrastructure cost (the dedicated substation, added grid load) borne by ratepayers and the broader tax base, while the developer captures the location value under a 15-year holiday — matches the extraction pattern the timeline has tracked in the broader data-center fiscal-capture story (2026-06-11–data-center-fiscal-capture-tax-exemptions-state-budgets-electoral-salience); confirming whether the substation cost is specifically socialized to AEP Ohio ratepayers would require the underlying rate case or developer agreement, not yet public.