Trumbull County, Ohio

County ranked by announced AI data-center load

1.5 GW Announced AI load

Campuses

Lead operator

SoftBank

Resi rate Δ (FirstEnergy)

+3.4%

Home price Δ (3y)

+16.4%

Property tax Δ (3y)

+7.2%

Population (2024 ACS)

201K

Median HH income (2024 ACS)

$56,435

Key takeaways

Trumbull County's population peaked at 241,863 in 1980 and has fallen to 201,367, a 17% loss. The Stargate Lordstown build occupies the former GM Lordstown assembly plant that closed in March 2019.Source: Census ACS 2023 B01003 + sources[0] (Wikipedia: Trumbull County OH and Lordstown Assembly)
The Lordstown site has changed hands four times in six years: GM sold to Lordstown Motors for $20 million in 2019, Foxconn paid $230 million in 2022, and SoftBank's Crescent Dune LLC bought the property for $375 million in August 2025 to retool for Stargate equipment.Source: sources[0] (Wikipedia: Lordstown Assembly)
FirstEnergy's Ohio Edison residential rate rose 3.4%, from 9.2 to 9.6 cents per kWh, the smallest delta of any top-10 AI county. The bill-side impact of the new 1.5 GW Stargate load has not yet flowed through to retail.Source: data/cache/utility_rate_yoy.csv (Ohio Edison Co, OH)
Home prices rose 16.4% over three years against a median household income of $55,088 and a $128,100 median home value, a sign that the speculative spillover from the AI build has begun even before Stargate energizes.Source: data/cache/realestate_yoy.csv + Census ACS 2023 B19013, B25077

Manufacturing still employs 18.9% of Trumbull's workforce despite the Lordstown plant closure, the highest manufacturing share of any Ohio AI county. The local trades have not yet exited the labor market the Stargate retool needs to rehire.Source: Census ACS 2023 C24050 (Trumbull County, OH)
Only 83.2% of Trumbull households have wired broadband, the lowest connectivity rate of any Ohio AI county. The Stargate campus will sit inside a region where residential fiber gaps run alongside the fiber the campus itself is pulling.Source: Census ACS 2023 B28002 (Trumbull County, OH)
Trumbull's poverty rate is 16.8%, more than double Fairfield's 8.2%. The 1.5 GW Stargate buildout is the first major capital event landing in this county since GM closed, and it lands on the most economically stressed population of the Ohio AI cluster.Source: Census ACS 2023 B17001 (Trumbull County, OH)
Veterans make up 9.0% of Trumbull adults (14,347 veterans), the highest veteran share of any Ohio batch-3 county. Youngstown Air Reserve Station's proximity is part of why the Lordstown labor pool retained operations-and-maintenance skills the Stargate site can draw from.Source: Census ACS 2023 B21001 (Trumbull County, OH)