05/21/2026
Marie Nemes-Crawford, Editor
May 28th: David Frash – Anduril Industries
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Presiding: President Rob Radcliff
Greeter: David Crawford
Pianist: Anita Wilson
Invocation: Dr. Mark Smith
Song Leader: Jim Reitano selected “America”, “Battle Hymn of the Republic”
Attendees: R.Radcliff, D.Wolfe, Crawford, Nemes-Crawford, Brown, C.Chamberlain, Droste, Duvall, Foster, Fountain, Gibson, Hedges, Hooks, Horning, Justinger, Lambert, Lanman, Mavis, McCrady, McNemar, G&S Montgomery, Neff, Poling, Rawlins, Reitano, Rhodes, Riegel, Robinson, Sneed, Spangler, Saunders, B.Tootle, Weller, White, Wilson, R.Wolfe, Wolford, Gouge, Hill
Visitors: Anita Wilson brought along her husband, Dr. Mark Smith is visiting town, Molly Fountain brought her mom, Jane Pulson guest of Jean Droste
Visiting Rotarian: Larry Davis from Sunrise
Club Announcements:
- Ellery update: Rob talked to his son this morning. Hopefully moving to a rehab facility soon.
- Jim Hooks received his Major Donor award today from Jayme Fountain. Jim joins Dick Patrick, Charlie Hedges, Dannie Fouts, Susanne Phillips, and James River as members from our club forever recognized as financial supporters of the Rotary Foundation.
- Applications for Drexel Poling Service Above Self Award for community members- please see Michele Lanman for application. Due the 28th of May.
- May will be a diaper drive – please bring in child diapers or give money to Connie – larger sizes are in more need. Bottoms Up out of Lancaster will be the recipient, they distribute to Pickaway Co.
- Monday Community Kitchen is cancelled because of the holiday
SAA: Tom Duvall
- Business Person of the Year- portrait of Carly Neff by Dave Webb presented
- Birthday/Anniversary
- 1891 – America Red Cross established
- Eat more fruits and vegetables day
- New travel center being built – Racetrack
- River Ridge new homes on N. Court – builder is Horton Homes
- N. Court gas station is a Shell
- Alta development – behind old Carnival- Multi-family ~ 19 acres; single family homes ~ 41 acres
- Walnut St. rebuild of sewers, water, gutters, repaving – $1.5 million
Scholarship Drawing: This week’s winner of $20 is Charlie Hedges – BABY bean is $20.
Program: Matt McCollister: Montrose Group: Economic development group
- Data Center is a facility that stores, processes and distributes large amounts of digital data using computer systems and networking equipment
- Data centers support everyday services like banking, healthcare, cloud computing, education and emergency systems
- Need data centers, why? Streaming movies and music, gps navigation, cloud file storage, medical records, reservation systems, social media, smart home devices
- Impact in our supply chain: Vertiv is adding 730 jobs in $50M expansion at two Ohio locations. They are a Westerville company that produces cooling wraps for data centers.
- Data centers challenges: water usage, electric usage, noise
- Resolution: Jurisdictions may limit the amount of water data centers can use. Utility providers are working with data centers to manage the burden on our 13-state PJM grid. Jurisdictions can require buffer zones, mounding, trees, etc. to reduce noise.
- Data center companies often pay 2-3 times more for land than other industrial projects
- Average cost of land for projects in New Albany area is $300,000/acre
- Increase in land taxes goes from $50-$100 per acre to $3,500-$4,000/acre after data center goes in
- The increase in land taxes is not abated, providing increase to schools, municipalities and county taxing agencies
- Data center construction requires upwards of 500 construction workers
- Data centers employ 20-50 people per building once up and going. For entry level jobs they are working with local tech schools teaching students what they need.
- Data center jobs pay $85,000-$100,000 per year
- Approach for data’s centers is changing – Hilliard and New Albany are still building
- When measuring size – use giga-watts: Northern Virginia number 1 in the world; Pacific NW number 2 in the states; Ohio is currently third
- Ohio is third because we started early and data centers like to cluster. AEP providing the electricity transmission lines has been the big draw.
- Pickaway county has good, flat land that is why data centers are looking for land for sale
- Minimum acreage? 25 acres at least – need to build two or three buildings
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The Presidential charity is Soldiers Monumental Society – caring for the graves of our service men and women