Amazon has paid $116.6 million for nearly 400 acres near the Intel site in New Albany, but isn't saying what it plans to do with the land.

Amazon bought the property last week, consisting of three parcels, one on the west side of Beech Road NW, and the others straddling both sides of Miller Road on the east side of Beech Road. The property is just north of 113 acres the tech company bought three years ago for $21.8 million on the east side of Beech Road south of Miller Road.

All the parcels are in land that New Albany annexed last year from Jersey Township for the Intel development, among other projects.

The purchase is also in addition to 93 acres Amazon purchased in September for $16 million on the southeast corner of Jug Street and Harrison Road, where it planned to build a 170,000-square-foot data center.

Amazon did not release any details of what it is has planned for the new site.

Data centers expanding across central Ohio

Amazon now operates a 459,000-square-foot data center nearby at 2570 Beech Road NW in New Albany, in addition to data centers in Hilliard and Dublin, and a distribution center at 1245 Beech Road SW.

The region contains 4.6 million square feet of data center space, ranking ninth among the country's metro areas. Nearly 2 million square feet of that space was added between 2012 and 2021, trailing only Washington, D.C., and Dallas in new data space over that period.

This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: Amazon buys hundreds of acres in New Albany, mum on what it plans