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Elion to build Flint Grid battery energy storage near New Albany

Published

30 July 2026

Topic

ai

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Cloud Infrastructure

Geography

United States

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Fusion42 · 30 July 2026 · Fusion42 review

California-based Eolian is building a 200-megawatt, multi-hundred-million-dollar battery energy storage system in Licking County, Ohio. The project, Flint Grid, is designed to support the high energy demand from the dense concentration of datacenters in the New Albany area, a major US tech hub.

This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of Cloud Infrastructure. Wire is Fusion42's founder-focused intelligence feed: each story is connected to the funds and startups it names — every one with a live profile on Raise or Scout — so founders can follow the capital and the momentum behind the headline rather than just the headline itself. Wire analysis is one of the live surfaces Arthur reasons over.

◆ The Wire takeaway

Your AI product's next bottleneck isn't the model, it's the power grid. Private capital is now building dedicated energy infrastructure just to keep Ohio's datacenters online, reshaping the geographic calculus of where you can affordably run your workloads.

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