Pike County
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Sep 29, 2026
Jay EdwardsGUEST
I don't understand why we're not trying to keep – By giving your money, yeah, it's a lot more work.
Jay EdwardsGUEST
But instead of giving Bank of America $100 million, which, by the way, is a rounding error for them, why don't we give $5 million to Hocking Valley Bank in Athens and give $5 million to the Atomic Credit Union down there in Jackson County or Pike County, Vinton County National Bank? Spread it out and give these folks more money.
Jay EdwardsGUEST
Then you can ensure, number one, that that investment that that bank's going to make stays in the state of Ohio or keeping Ohio's money in Ohio.
Jay EdwardsGUEST
It goes a long way towards investment and development.
Gary McNamaraHOST
And such opportunities are sorely needed in the area.
Gary McNamaraHOST
Uh, Pike County has the fifth highest unemployment rate in Ohio, and the latest census data show that 19% of its residents live in, uh, in poverty.
Gary McNamaraHOST
Large manufacturing projects have brought opportunity to Piketon before.
Gary McNamaraHOST
When the uranium enrichment plant was starting operations in the 1950s, the poverty rate stood at over 40%, but it dropped to 20% after the 1980 census.
Brianna AlbizuCORRESPONDENT
As a result, at least five state roads were closed or blocked due to high water washouts and mudslides.
Brianna AlbizuCORRESPONDENT
In Lauraville and Hawking County, Waverly and Pike County, and along the Pickaway County border, water rescues helped evacuate people to safety and to emergency shelters.
Brianna AlbizuCORRESPONDENT
Evacuation orders have since been lifted
Jay FoxHOST
In Ottawa County, a Toledo woman is dead after a crash on I-80 Saturday morning.
Angela AnnCORRESPONDENT
He compared the potential penalty to the already existing law for misuse of the Ohio law enforcement gateway system, and that could include jail time and job loss.
Jay FoxHOST
In Southern Ohio, the entire Waverly Public School District in Pike County is closed today due to a morning bomb threat.
Jay FoxHOST
Students that were either en route or at school were returned home by bus.
Jay FoxHOST
Waverly police are investigating.
Angela AnnCORRESPONDENT
He compared the potential penalty to the already existing law for misuse of the Ohio law enforcement gateway system, and that could include jail time and job loss.
Jay FoxHOST
In Southern Ohio, the entire Waverly Public School District in Pike County is closed today due to a morning bomb threat.
Jay FoxHOST
Students that were either en route or at school were returned home by bus.
Jay FoxHOST
Waverly police are investigating.
speaker_6HOST
It has silver hair, a quiet demeanor, and offers you a warm meal.
speaker_5HOST
Another family that blended right into a quiet rural community was the Wagner family in Pike County, Ohio.
speaker_5HOST
This is a very recent case from April 2016, and the community was absolutely shocked when eight members of the Roden family were found slaughtered across several homes on Union Hill Road.
speaker_6HOST
An entire extended family wiped out in a single night.
Tom RotenHOST
The Ports Pike Technology Campus in Piketon is planned to be the world's largest, I said the world's largest artificial intelligence data center and power generation site.
Tom RotenHOST
This is being built on the former Portsmouth gaseous diffusion plant, a decommissioned Cold War uranium enrichment site in Pike County, Ohio.
Tom RotenHOST
And this is a public-private partnership involving SB Energy, AEP Ohio, OpenAI, and the U.S. Department of Energy.
Tom RotenHOST
Remember, back in the spring, there was a huge announcement with federal, state, local officials, as well as...
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Tom RotenHOST
Yeah.
Vina ColleyGUEST
And there's been a lot of money that's been missing.
Tom RotenHOST
So this money is a result of what happened with what we've been talking about, your former employer, the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Piketon, which is in Pike County, but obviously affects Scioto County.
Tom RotenHOST
You're from Scioto County.
Ryan FriedmanCORRESPONDENT
Now, story three is about scale, industrial, almost national scale.
Ryan FriedmanCORRESPONDENT
NVIDIA has agreed to provide up to $105 billion in residual value guarantees for a massive new data center campus in Pike County, Ohio.
Ryan FriedmanCORRESPONDENT
The site is a former uranium enrichment facility.
Ryan FriedmanCORRESPONDENT
OpenAI has signed a 20-year lease for roughly eight gigawatts of computing capacity.