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I don’t care where it is in the climate, the opposition to data centers is so well funded that these people will come out the woodwork to oppose it in central Indiana. Instead of approvals for re zoning just tell them where they can go.
Well funded opposition? Apparently you don’t live in Indianapolis, where the opposition is grass roots residents who take time off from their jobs to go attend hearings, who take time out of their lives to attend public meetings. None of these people are funded. I think you may be confused with who all the data centers are paying off to support them.
Data centers are a double edged sword. Users love the concept and application of AI, while the means to meet the demand use massive amounts of resources. For the people building the data centers, they need to use a fully closed loop cooling system reducing the amount of water wasted and have a means of producing on-site energy so all rate payers are not footing the bill as well as limting the strain placed on an already teetering electrical grid.
Projects like these come along once a generation and our City should embrace them along with the direct and indirect benefits that they bring with the Billion dollar investment.
It really appears the IEDC initiated the Indiana attraction for the data centers, first up north and then LEAP, and then all over the central part of the state. Unfortunately the IEDC did NOT do their due diligence on both the water and electrical availability.
Once the public learned of it all, the misinformation and self protection movements began. The data center developers also did not do their due diligence, nor public relations efforts to gain support. Once they realized they had to use closed loop water for cooling, and possibly pay and construct their own power generation, the public had already decided to fight them every step of the way. This was not good for anyone involved, so now the smaller site proposals are also being attacked by neighbors and politicians with misinformation as their weapons of resistance. In any case the AI folks need to advance their platforms so my phone doesn’t tend to rewrite the opposite of what I actually write. Ha!
As one person quoted in the story said, it is indeed an absolutely unprecedented time. Let’s hope that as our state’s economic development people get dollar signs in their eyes, we don’t forget how fortunate we are to have natural resources in central Indiana like Eagle Creek (first a creek, now a reservoir, always a natural space worth protecting). Indeed, J.K. Lilly Jr. helped create the park through his donation of land and desire to protect this place. It’s ironic that the company founded by his family will operate on the LEAP site that proposes to return treated wastewater to his former home at Eagle Creek. As these developments and technologies develop so quickly, it doesn’t seem clear what we even need to treat in the water these centers will use. Mother Nature deserves more than crossing our fingers and hoping for the best. Thanks to those Marion County leaders who have joined with Hoosiers to call for protection of Eagle Creek and alternate innovative water use solutions for LEAP.
The problem is that data centers do not bring much in the way of new local taxes because the General Assembly gave that away. And, they do not really create much in the way of jobs or spin-off economic development.