Every morning in the Ohio Capital Journal’s free newsletter, The Eye-Opener, we round up the news and commentary from across Ohio and around the country and world that is catching our attention. We call this feature Catching Our Eye, republished here.

Please subscribe to our free daily newsletter to get all the Ohio news you need to know right to your inbox every weekday morning.

If you already subscribe, please share with your family and friends so they know about the Ohio Capital Journal too: https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/subscribe/

Catching Our Eye

• Data centers, wind, and solar. The Dayton Daily News’ Bryn Dippold reports, “Could wind and solar projects have fueled Ohio’s data center growth? Advocacy group says ‘yes’.”

There are 1,000 megawatts in 1 gigawatt 1 gigawatt can power approximately 800,000 homes, roughly the population of Seattle 1.2 gigawatts is roughly the output of a nuclear power plant A hyperscale data center, like the ones planned for communities in Ohio and drawing public opposition, can use more than 100 megawatts of energy Roughly 100 MW of electric power can support 80,000 U.S. households (for comparison, the city of Hamilton’s population is about 63,000)

A new report from the advocacy group Save Ohio Parks argues that wind and solar projects canceled in Ohio could have generated nearly enough electricity to meet the growing demand from data centers.

• Voter privacy. Cleveland.com’s Sabrina Eaton reports, “Ohio voter records sent to DOJ spark Democratic lawmakers’ concerns.”

Ohio’s Democratic members of Congress sent a letter to Secretary of State Frank LaRose on Tuesday that demanded he explain what sensitive voter information he turned over to the federal government, what legal authority he relied on and what safeguards — if any — are in place to protect it from misuse.

The letter accuses LaRose of exposing nearly eight million Ohioans to “unnecessary risks, including misuse, unauthorized access, leaks, and identity theft, without any clear safeguards or accountability.”

• Radiation. WVXU’s Nick Swartsell reports, “Decades after UC radiation experiments, students and families call for better memorial.”

A UC radiologist named Eugene Saenger headed up a Department of Defense-funded project between 1960 and 1972, studying the effects of radiation on the human body.

It’s unknown exactly how many people Saenger experimented on over the course of more than a decade. Records show it’s at least 90.

Many participants thought they were undergoing treatment for their late-stage cancers when Saenger put them in a machine and exposed their bodies to high levels of radiation.

• Gun storage. NPR reports, “About 7 million kids live in a home with a loaded and unlocked gun, a study finds.”

An estimated 32 million children in the United States live in homes with firearms, nearly 7 million of whom have at least one firearm in the household that’s unlocked and loaded. That’s according to a new study published in JAMA Network Open.

• Cleveland cops. The Cleveland Scene’s Mark Oprea reports, “As Cleveland Seeks to End the Consent Decree, Do Residents Trust the Police?”

The city’s Police Accountability Team, as well as the federal monitor team and the Cleveland Community Police Commission, will soon each be surveying Clevelanders on that very question.