Data centers in Morgan County, Indiana: 1 project mapped

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Morgan County's data center is Google's, though for most of 2025 nobody in Monrovia was allowed to know that. The project began as "Project Louie": at a community meeting on February 10, 2025, the county plan commission presented a rezoning request that the Morgan County Economic Development Corporation had filed for 391 acres on West Keller Hill Road in Monroe Township, just east of Monrovia, on behalf of an unnamed company. The commissioners approved it unanimously on February 18. In May they approved a development agreement under which, the Indianapolis Business Journal reported, the developer pays no local tax on qualified computing equipment for 40 years, on top of a 10-year, 50% abatement on property tax for the data center buildings, with state tax breaks from the Indiana Economic Development Corp. worth up to $42 million over 35 years. The commissioners had signed a non-disclosure agreement keeping the owner's name private. Google confirmed it was the developer in October 2025, a month after it withdrew a data center plan in Franklin Township in Indianapolis in the face of local opposition, and that same month the commissioners rezoned another 158 acres, bringing the site to 549 acres between Keller Hill Road, North Antioch Road, State Road 42 and West Union Church Road.

Google has promised to spend at least $1 billion and to hire 50 people per data center building; current plans call for four. It has not said publicly how much power or water the campus will use, but filings described by the Business Journal show AES Indiana planning a 1,200MW substation on the site, and documents in a case before the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission put water use at about 4 million gallons a day. Run near that capacity for a year, the paper calculated, the campus would use nearly twice the electricity of all AES Indiana's residential customers. Construction began in November 2025. "Nobody here wants to live across the street from an industrial project like this, and yet you are asking me and my neighbors to carry that burden," Sean Walker, who lives across Antioch Road, told the commissioners before their October vote. Gina and Darin Madsen, who bought their Monrovia house two dozen years ago, told the Arnolt Center for Investigative Journalism they had little time to react; "It was already set in stone," Darin Madsen said. Critics have raised energy and water use, noise and property values, and some have sued the county, Indiana Public Media reported.

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