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Oh, wow! Truly visionary! Possibly, almost one whole job per acre. What a great use for great use for our urban area land! I can’t wait for see use replace open space with giant, ugly windowless monoliths that contribute nothing to urban vitality. JUST KIDDING! Someone please kill this. This is the most terrible kind of deal that will benefit little compared to huge cost to society in our region. ANY other option, residential, commercial, or keeping open space…This would be a suckers bet if there ever was one. ANYTHING would be better than taking this life-sucking vampire squid wrapping around our face and jamming its blood funnel into what smells like money. Don’t fall for this sucker pitch. The only good answer to this is NO-NO-NO. Indy, DO NOT entertain this idea, DO NOT pass go, DO NOT collect $200. INDY, DO BETTER!
At this point, Indianapolis should take any opportunity that allows them to collect more tax revenue especially property tax revenue.
AES Indiana will be laughing all of the way to the bank. Any additional investments to handle the load will just be passed on to all of the Indianapolis ratepayers as the IURC will just rubber stamp any capital investment.
How about constructing an underground facility. It helps with temperature control and with a suitable roof design you could still maybe build slab homes on it. There is a working 5 story limestone mine under part of Carmel with car dealers and homes above.
It could work and not be an eyesore.
What are the incentives to get this here? What are the long term ramifications? What if there’s better data storage solutions in the next few years that make these centers obsolete?
I’m not necessarily opposed but let’s get some answers
Stae law makers would like to see Indiana one big data center with mis-guided tax incentives.
Thanks to the IEDC, Indiana has become the new ‘cheap’ and easy place for investment groups and mega data tech companies to assimilate their massive use and abuse of electricity and water for the sake of quicker artificial intelligence. The only gains are eventual more property taxes and some jobs during construction. Otherwise no real contribution to our communities. Pittsboro and Monrovia just approved their proposed mega sites. Indy doesn’t really need to install a third one.
Indy’s and Indiana’s strategy is too much based on the idea that being cheap is the way to attract business. You may get something like a server farm that way, but it sure doesn’t attract lots of really good jobs. Finance, tech, corporate HQs, and biotech and new pharma jobs go disproportionately to where people want to live—not where land is a bargain and places are crummy. Austin, Denver, Charlotte, and Nashville thrive by focusing on quality of life including vibrant, walkable districts, better streets, parks, et cetera and they are getting way more good new and high powered jobs in those areas than we are. Yes they have certain other advantages, but we aren’t make the best go or it here. We give away 468 acres for a server farm that creates one job per acre. This is bargain-bin urban planning and economic development at its worst.
I’d be very surprised if this project generated anywhere near 400 jobs. Most data centers employ vastly fewer people. I continue to believe that data centers are not where our state should be looking to incentivize development. What if, instead we worked to attract a satellite office of this company?
Exactly. They accidentally added an extra zero. It will be more like 40 jobs.
Without transparency this project should not even be considered for approval.