BLOOMINGTON − Fearing heavy water use could jeopardize Lake Monroe , Monroe County officials are considering strict limits on data centers and small nuclear power reactors.

Data centers have been proliferating in the U.S. because of the explosive growth of generative artificial intelligence — think ChatGTP, Copilot, Gemini — and developers have flocked to build data centers in Indiana because of low electricity costs and state tax incentives.

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