FORT WAYNE — While opposition to data centers continues to grow around Indiana, a massive project in Allen County is already well into construction.
A few weeks ago, in the middle of November, more than a hundred people showed up to make sure the Indiana Department of Environmental Management heard their opposition to a data center being built in southeast Fort Wayne.
“We’re not just here to defend our neighborhoods in the backyard of this data center, we’re here to defend everyone down river,” Kelly Atkins said to represenatives from the Indiana Department of Environmental Management at a hearing about the latest request from the Google data center. At the end of the hearing, the crowd of speakers began chanting at the representatives; “Deny, deny, deny.”…