El Puente
By Brian Daggy and Jim Love, Members, Boone County Preservation Group
Another large data center is slated to come to Indiana, but can Hoosiers really afford it? In late August, the Lebanon Planning Commission approved Meta’s 1,500-acre data center. The project would be the largest data center ever built in Indiana. The company will break ground inside the LEAP District this fall, endorsed by state leaders as the crown jewel of Indiana’s economic development. But beneath the headlines about the unspecified number of jobs and hefty corporate tax breaks lies an even bigger story, one that Hoosiers can’t afford to ignore.
Meta’s new facility is projected to consume more than 1,500 megawatts of electricity each day, which is an almost unfathomable amount of energy. To put that into perspectiv
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