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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

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United States

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Read at dispatch.com

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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, and 3 sources have reported it between 30 Jul 2026 and 15 Aug 2026.

◆ 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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3 sources · first reported 30 Jul 2026 · latest 15 Aug 2026

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