Ohio is being turned into the Silicon Valley of the Midwest through the construction of data centers, the installation of Flock cameras, and the development of drone programs.
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The Jimmy Dore ShowAug 3, 2026
Sources document all three elements: large data center builds in Ohio (Piketon, Middleton Township, New Albany, 138 data centers around Columbus), widespread Flock camera deployments (Cleveland, Akron, Marion, over 1,000 across Cuyahoga County), and drone activity (Anduril's autonomous drone factory near Columbus and commercial drone services).
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… That is exactly he is the technocracy's dream. Um, I think him and Vivek Ramaswamy have been very strategically placed in order to usher in the surveillance state and the technocratic state. I think we're seeing that play out. I live in Ohio. I ai A-I have a front row seat to that, where they are turning Ohio into the Silicon Valley of the Midwest. That's exactly what's happening here. We have data centers going up all over the place. There's Flock cameras. They've got drone programs in the works. Like, all of that stuff is coming to fruition, and I think that there may even be, um, uh, that that faction may have a, uh, a plan and a reason to want to oust Donald Trump so that they can usher that in even sooner. …
The Jimmy Dore Show · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Supports. Multiple data center projects are under construction or announced in Ohio, including a 10-gigawatt DOE-backed campus in Piketon and a Meta hyperscale site in Middleton Township.[1][2][3]
Supports. Columbus is described as having 138 data centers in and around the city, with major operators including Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Meta and Vantage, and as drawing comparisons to a leading tech hub.[4]
Supports. Flock license plate reader cameras are deployed across Ohio, with Cleveland operating 100 and more than 1,000 across Cuyahoga County, and local police in Marion and Akron using related systems.[5][6][7][8]
Supports. Ohio awarded $310 million to Anduril for a $1 billion facility to produce autonomous military drones, and commercial drone services operate statewide.[4][9]
Context. The sources show drone manufacturing and commercial drone services, not clearly government drone programs as the post describes, so the drone element is only partly matched.[4][9]
Context. Ohio's data center buildout is a hot political issue, with local moratoria in some places, which tempers but does not contradict the claim that the buildout is underway.[8][10]
Sources
10 sources: 2 fact-checkers, 8 not rated
- 1Transcriptreuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 2DOE unveils 10-gigawatt Ohio data center, gas-powered ...apnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 3Campus 4 CMH116 - New Albany, OH 43054thedronebrothers.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 4Columbus Emerges as Midwest Tech and Manufacturing Hubglobest.com · not rated · cited for: supports, context
- 5Cleveland city council votes to continue Flock Safety ...cleveland19.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 6Cleveland to keep Flock cameras, pause data center projectssignalcleveland.org · not rated · cited for: supports
- 7THE SHADOW NETWORK: FLOCK, FUSUS, AND DRONES AND THE ...news.marionwatch.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 8Free AI Training & Certification in Ohio | AI Ready Ohioaireadyohio.org · not rated · cited for: supports, context
- 9Ohioskyelink.org · not rated · cited for: supports, context
- 10Jon Husted, Sherrod Brown on key issues in Ohio Senate racermb.reuters.com · not rated · cited for: context
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