State’s big, bold LEAP District play draws some reflection

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    1. Great question. Data centers employ very few people and typically benefit from special legislation that means they pay little to nothing in taxes. They are also electricity hogs. And they don’t generate any real spinoff development. What’s more, per recent reporting from the Wall Street Journal, a lot of the construction workers building them are actually traveling labor, not necessarily locals. 1,430 acres going to Meta/Facebook data centers doesn’t sound like high value economic development to me.

      We need a megasite like LEAP to be competitive for major advanced manufacturing projects, but if we end up filling it with data centers, it will be an opportunity missed.

  1. In 2023 an employee of Andretti UK called me at my home in Indiana to let me know that if I wanted to do business in Indiana, I needed to sponsor Andretti with the Indiana economic development corporation because since the state could not sponsor a Formula One team, they came up with an innovative way to sponsor Formula One, using inability grants for formula E with the battery innovation center, because according to the UK employee, those sustainability grants were unlimited in Indiana.

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