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Recent Indiana data center news

• Apr 22, 2026

  PR Push Seen as Key to Overcoming Data Center Opposition

  Parker Slaybaugh of Virginia Connects/LINK Public Affairs outlined a three-phase strategy to build local support for data center projects before, during, and after development.

  • Main announcement:Parker Slaybaugh (vice president, Virginia Connects/LINK Public Affairs) presented a three-phase strategy aimed at building local support for data center projects before, during, and after project development at Data Center World on April 22, 2026.
  • Background/details: The remarks were made amid heightened tensions and local opposition to data center expansion, including a cited incident in Indianapolis where shots were fired at a local official’s home alongside a note opposing data centers.
    • Event: Data Center World
    • Date: April 22, 2026
    • Location: Washington (dateline)
    • Agenda/subject: public relations and community engagement strategies for data center projects
• Apr 22, 2026

  Patented: Verizon’s Signal Spoof Detection at Base Stations and More North Texas Inventive Activity

  Dallas-Fort Worth reported 171 patents granted for the week of March 24 and Verizon was granted a patent for detecting GPS/satellite signal spoofing at cellular base stations.

  • Main announcement: Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington (19100) 171 patents granted for the week of March 24, ranked No. 8 out of 250 U.S. metros; notable individual patent: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (U.S. Patent No. 12587857) for signal spoof detection at base stations using a comparison of a station’s known “true position” with a calculated “real time position” and generating an alert when the distance exceeds a threshold. Named inventors on the Verizon patent are Jerry Gamble, Jr. (Grapevine, TX) and Sumanth S. Mallya (Flower Mound, TX).
  • Background/details: The article is a patent roundup (Dallas Invents) listing utility and design patents connected to North Texas; it enumerates classification counts (G: Physics 53; H: Electricity 49; DESIGN: 31, etc.), top assignees (e.g., Texas Instruments Inc. 17; Traxxas L.P. 17; Samsung 8; Verizon 6) and highlights many granted patents across domains (telecom, AI/ML, medical devices, robotics, energy, networking). For each patent the report includes patent number, inventor(s), assignee, application file/date, and abstract (no speculative outcomes).
• Apr 20, 2026

  What environmental issues are Hoosiers facing this Earth Day?

  Indiana Public Media’s Noon Edition aired an Earth Day program on environmental regulations.

  • Program details: Aired April 20, 2026; audio length 51:13; the show featured interviews about environmental regulation rollbacks, with topics including data centers and water pollution. Guests named in the program were Kerwin Olson (Citizens Action Coalition), Christian Freitag (Conservation Law Center), David Van Gilder (Hoosier Environmental Council), and Janet McCabe (former deputy administrator, U.S. EPA).
  • How to participate & distribution: Listeners were invited to call 812-855-0811 or toll-free 1-877-285-9348 and to email questions to news@indianapublicmedia.org; the episode is available on IPM’s site and via the linked YouTube video (WTIU & WFIU - Indiana Public Media).
• Apr 17, 2026

  AI Infrastructure Brief: Power, Capital, and the Feeling That Something Is Tightening

  Matt Vincent (Data Center Frontier) summarized the week’s announcements showing an accelerating AI data-center buildout paired with mounting power and coordination constraints.

  • Main observation: The industry is prioritizing power and speed: major deals and project announcements include Bloom Energy and Oracle planning up to 2.8 GW of deployment, Aligned Data Centers breaking ground on a 540 MW Project Caprock, an EdgeConneX affiliate proposing a 430 MW natural gas plant in New Albany, Ohio, proposals for 2 GW in New Mexico and 1.2 GW in Irwin County, Georgia, and Microsoft expanding datacenter operations in Cheyenne. The Maine legislature passed a temporary, exemption-inclusive ban on data centers, signaling emerging social-license constraints.
  • Capital and implementation details: Financial moves include Switch raising $768 million via ABS, Fluidstack reported in talks for a $1 billion round at an $18 billion valuation, and Jane Street signing a $6 billion AI cloud agreement with CoreWeave; CoreWeave also expanded a multi-year relationship with Anthropic. Utilities are signing long-term power agreements (e.g., NiSource with Alphabet and expanded ties with Amazon). AWS has launched “Project Houdini” to accelerate construction timelines. All items are factual recaps of announcements and reports from the week (no speculative outcomes included).
• Apr 16, 2026

  Rural Co-ops Navigate a New Era of Load Growth, Rising Costs, and Policy Pressure

  The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) CEO Jim Matheson outlined NRECA’s 2026 policy priorities and warned that rural co-ops are under acute strain from surging loads (notably AI data centers), rising costs, and premature power plant retirements.

  • Main announcement/action: NRECA is prioritizing rolling back onerous EPA regulations, permitting reform, raising the USDA Rural Utilities Service (RUS) lending cap, and FEMA reform as its top 2026 advocacy goals; Matheson described roughly 900 co-ops in 48 states serving 42 million people across 54% of U.S. land mass, and noted that two cooperatives (Michigan and Indiana) have signed power purchase agreements for the full output of a previously shuttered Michigan nuclear plant that is being restarted by a third-party operator.
  • Background and other details: Matheson stressed the operational challenge of AI data center “step function” loads, said current battery tech provides roughly ~4 hours of storage versus a desired ~100 hours for long-duration storage, flagged broad supply-chain and equipment cost increases, noted co-ops serve 92% of persistent poverty counties, and mentioned roughly 200 co-ops have moved into rural broadband deployment.
• Apr 16, 2026

  Data Center Protests Are Growing. How Should the Industry Respond?

  Data Center Watch reports community opposition has halted and delayed numerous U.S. data center projects.

  • Main findings: Data Center Watch says $18 billion in projects have been halted and $46 billiondelayed over the past two years; the group has identified at least 142 activist groups across 24 states blocking or opposing data center construction. Key affected projects and values are cited throughout the article (examples listed below).
  • Context and examples: The article is a reporting/summary of recent project cancellations, postponements, and opposition rather than a new project announcement. Examples include Tract (two Arizona projects, $14 billion withdrawn), QTS & Compass (Prince William, VA, $24.7 billion, 2.4 GW, legal challenges), and Amazon proposals ($6 billion in King George, VA and other contested sites). The piece compiles project statuses, industry commentary, and technical/community concerns (power, water, health, jobs).
• Apr 14, 2026

  Data centers are moving inland, away from some traditional locations

  Synergy Research Group and Sightline Climate reported a geographic shift and widescale delays in U.S. data center construction.

  • Main announcement:Synergy Research Group finds the planning and build “center of gravity” for data centers is moving inland to Texas and Midwestern states (Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri). Sightline Climate reports 16 GW of data centers slated to open in the U.S. this year but only 5 GW are under construction now and expects 30–50% of projects to be delayed; 25 GW are announced for 2027 with only 6 GW under construction.
  • Background and details: Delays are driven by component shortages (memory, storage, batteries, electrical transformers, circuit breakers) and local opposition (e.g., the Seminole Nation banning data centers on tribal lands). Major cloud and AI firms named as project sponsors include Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, and CoreWeave. The article also references Pennsylvania’s $70 billion push for data centers and notes many 2028–2032 projects have not broken ground.
• Apr 14, 2026

  Opposition Toward OpenAI Brings Two Violent Attacks on CEO’s Home

  San Francisco police reported two attacks on OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s home within four days.

  • Main incident: At about 2:56 a.m. on Sunday, San Francisco police responded to possible shots fired in Russian Hill; a passenger fired a round from a car window, the license plate allowed SFPD to detain Amanda Tom (25) and Muhamad Tarik Hussein (23) and officers seized three firearms. Two days earlier a Molotov cocktail was thrown at Altman’s property gate by Daniel Alejandro Moreno-Gama (20); Moreno-Gama was arrested and charged with suspicion of attempted murder, arson, and possession/manufacture of an incendiary device.
  • Background and related details: The article references Altman’s blog post and OpenAI’s April 6 report “Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age”, highlights rising anti-AI and anti-data center sentiment (including a separate shooting at Indianapolis Councilman Ron Gibson’s home), and notes a proposed $15 billion data center backed by OpenAI and Oracle and local pushback in multiple towns.
• Apr 13, 2026

  Hyperscale Growth Shifts Inland as AI Drives Power Demand

  Synergy Research Group reports US hyperscale data center expansion is shifting inland as AI-driven power needs prioritize Texas and the Midwest.

  • Shift details: Synergy finds Texas and the Midwest currently account for about one-third of US hyperscale capacity but are expected to capture more than half of new development; there were 580 operational US hyperscale data centers (end of 2025) and 437 additional US data centers in the pipeline (out of 803 planned globally), with the average capacity of new data centers over the next three years almost double that of currently operational facilities.
  • Context and drivers:Power availability has become the dominant site-selection criterion, alongside land, network access, incentives, and permitting; Texas is identified as the most active market, Northern Virginia remains the largest cluster (but not the primary expansion focus), and Midwestern states named include Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan, and Missouri; market concentration remains high with Amazon, Microsoft, and Google holding 58% of global capacity.
• Apr 10, 2026

  DCF Poll: Data Centers and the Public Trust Gap

  Bill Kleyman (via LinkedIn) warned the data center industry is at a “very fragile moment,” and Data Center Frontier has launched a poll asking what the industry needs to rebuild public trust.

  • Main action:Bill Kleyman published a LinkedIn post asserting the industry faces escalating hostility—citing proposed legislation for an AI/data center moratorium, an entire state (Maine) seeking to ban new data centers, and a recent shooting with a ‘No Data Centers’ note left at a lawmaker’s home. Data Center Frontier has framed this as the prompt for this month’s DCF Poll asking what the industry needs to rebuild trust.
  • Background/details: The article references multiple sources and concrete developments: Sanders/Ocasio-Cortez press release on an AI/data center moratorium bill, a Maine moratorium/ban reported by CNBC and DataCenterDynamics, a Washington Post opinion on rising tensions, and a PBS report of the Indiana shooting. It also notes industry commentary (CoreSite myth-vs-truth doc) and broader coverage (Bloomberg video on labor demand).