INDIANAPOLIS — The fate of Google's proposed billion-dollar data center on the southeast side of Indianapolis will be decided at a public hearing later this month.

The tech giant needs nearly 470 acres of farm land near I-74 and Post Road to be rezoned. The Metropolitan Development Commission voted to do just that last month, but the city-county council has to approve all zoning decisions.

At Monday's meeting, Councilor Michael-Paul Hart, who represents the area where the center would be built, called that zoning decision down for a public hearing.

"What was really good was seeing all those people out there, holding the signs, doing everything they need to do so that every councilor here can see how serious we are about that data center," Hart said.

That opposition is born out of the f

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