New Carlisle

Yeah.

That's why that anthropic data center out in New Carlisle is so, so valuable to, uh...

Amazon is building it, but Anthropic is, is, is actually using it.

So this is a, gives our municipalities a rare opportunity to, to negotiate really good deals.

And so we were part of that process when that sign was dedicated.

Move on a little further, we go through New Carlisle, we get out to Rolling Prairie.

At the intersection of Route 20 and 6, where they crisscross there, 20 and 2, I guess, there's a place that used to be called Bob's Barbecue for a long, long time.

Bus loads of people.

Two massive data centers under construction in Indiana highlight how the process changes when a federal permit is required.

Project Raynor, the 1,200-acre Amazon data center campus in New Carlisle in northwest Indiana, includes wetlands and streams regulated by the Clean Water Act.

The first federal application filed by the company requested authorization to fill in nearly 10 acres of wetlands in order to build the campus.

The Army Corps responded by requesting another plan with less impact.

Yeah, Bryce got it exactly right.

I would just add that, um, although we've stopped around 20 data center projects, we now have about 11 of them that are under construction, uh, and indeed a few that have already started operating, including what is one of the largest currently operational data centers in the world, the Amazon site in New Carlisle, Indiana.

That's gonna be Anthropic's, uh, AI data center.

Uh, you, you mentioned, um, f- actually, first, before I even get to that, why Indiana? A- and is, is...

Because when residents don't want the project in their backyard, that can have very concrete consequences.

That's how near New Carlisle, Indiana, residents opposed a proposed data center and, after an 8-hour meeting in December 2025, the county council rejected the rezoning it required.

After that meeting, council member Amy Drake told residents they had been forgotten, ignored and taken advantage of in the past, which was a very valuable reminder that a developer hoping to build in a place that has, let's face it, limited direct incentives to welcome an industry that's not associated with a lot of local jobs, well, that developer needs to put something on the table and offer something his neighbors actually want.

And usually, everybody loves a water network that doesn't leak, right? Which is why the big guys' pledges are awesome.