Project Zodiac

Residents were invited to listen to presentations from representatives from Google and city utilities before having a chance to ask their own questions about the data center which is already operational.

The forum is a response to growing opposition to the upcoming data center and encourages residents to come and submit questions.

Data centers are cropping up all over Indiana and the country, despite public opinion shifting heavily on the projects.

The Google data center is under construction. But opposition to it continues to build. Fort Wayne Community Development Director Johnathan Leist sat down with Ella Abbott to talk about its benefits to the community.

The Indiana Department of Environmental Management invited public comment on the request to add a further 143 emergency diesel generators to the Google Data Center currently underway.

The state organization invited members and nonmembers to participate in a conversation about accountability around data centers.

Since developers of the Google data center went before state and county officials, the number of emergency generators they say they need on the site has quadrupled. A public hearing on the proposal is set for Nov. 13.

If built, it would have the potential to put out the third most greenhouse gas emissions of any industrial facility in the state.

The Project Zodiac developers building a Google data center in southeast Fort Wayne can expand the number of wetlands they will fill.

The project would involve the construction of additional data center buildings and involve the destruction of roughly 10 acres of wetlands.