CHILLICOTHE, Ohio. Alignment Engine has provided Heritage Headlines with the slideshow it used at the Sept. 8 public review meeting on the proposed computing and manufacturing project at the former Mead and Pixelle mill.
The company sent the file after a request to the contact listed on the last slide: community@alignmentengine.com and 330-649-2397. The response came quickly. The 19-page deck is attached to this story. It is a company presentation, not a city document and not an Ohio EPA finding.
Heritage Headlines covered the packed session at Chillicothe High School the next day and noted that Alignment Engine’s David Stanfill said the slides would be released later. This posting follows that promise. Readers looking for crowd reaction, unanswered questions from the floor, and the city’s remaining decisions should start with that earlier report.
The slides describe a data hall and computing-device manufacturing operation inside an existing mill building on about 6.5 acres. Alignment Engine calls that roughly 1.3 percent of a campus it puts at about 490 acres. The company contrasts that footprint with another local data center it lists at 480 acres. The other project is not named in the deck.
Alignment Engine frames the site as a brownfield reuse with its own power, process water, and wastewater treatment, and with utilities already permitted by the Ohio EPA. The water slides show the same five-step loop the mill has used: bring water in from wells and, when needed, Paint Creek; use it; recycle it; treat it on site; return it to the river under the existing state permit. One chart puts treated wastewater at 12 million gallons a day now, 28 million at the old mill, and 28 million “anticipated at capacity.” A power chart lists current demand at 9 megawatts, 89 megawatts anticipated at capacity, and 95 megawatts for the legacy mill. Those figures belong to the company.
On noise, the deck shows a chiller yard and estimated levels falling with distance, with 35 dB(A) at about 665 feet and a claim that nearest homes sit about 650 feet away, under half a decibel over background. A bar chart compares fence-line noise today, conversation, the old mill, and an anticipated 39.4 dB at the fence. The company says plant buildings would block sound. None of those measurements have been independently verified here.
The jobs slide lists manufacturing, trades, engineering, and management titles with salary ranges from the low $40,000s to more than $200,000. A comparison slide claims 240 permanent jobs versus 20 at the unnamed larger site, an average wage near $40 an hour, and “now hiring.” Alignment Engine says it is not asking for a tax abatement. A tax chart projects income, sales, and potential property-tax figures that rise with head count and an estimated $500 million in value. Those are company projections.
A community-commitments slide says U.S. Paper Mill would keep managing the WearEver groundwater plume, keep taking Paint Street landfill leachate through the on-site treatment plant, stay under NPDES and Title V permits, and continue odor and campus cleanup work after pulp operations ended.
What the slides do not do is settle the city’s remaining work. Chillicothe’s 60-day pause on new data-center approvals still runs through Oct. 23. Council has been reviewing possible changes to the Unified Development Code. Permits, water, power, and land-use questions sit with the city and state regulators, not with a presentation.
The last slide repeats the public contact: community@alignmentengine.com and 330-649-2397. Job listings are posted at alignmentengine.com.
Heritage Headlines is publishing the file as received so residents can read the same pages shown at the high school. Company claims stay company claims until the city and Ohio EPA put them on the record.
