Franklin Township Schools now supports Google data center

'It’s called progress': Owners of farmland eyed for Google data center speak out

Owners of Indianapolis farm discuss proposed Google data center INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – The property owners who have agreed to sell a large piece of farmland in Franklin Township to Google for a data center believe it’s the best option available for the land. Kevin Pelko, who owns the proposed data center site along with his wife, said, “I wish we could back up time to 1966 and there wouldn’t be any thought of this, but times change.” About to tur…

Franklin Township Community School Corporation supports Google data center

FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP The Franklin Township Community School Corporation has announced support for controversial plans for a Google data center.The Indianapolis City-County Council voted last week to hold an extra hearing on the data center proposal, scheduled for Monday, September 22. It'll be the last step before a final vote on the project."It's peaceful," said Judy Jones.Judy Jones has lived off Davis Rd. for 45 years."I raised my family here wi…

Franklin Township Schools now supports Google data center

INDIANAPOLIS — In a reversal from its early August opposition, the Franklin Township Community School Corporation now supports a plan to build a giant data center on 463 acres of farmland near the I-74 and Post Road interchange in southeast Marion County. “The agreement reached with the City of Indianapolis and Google ensures that fair property tax revenues flows to our schools,” reads a statement from Superintendent Chase Huotari. “This means t…

Governor Mike Braun: We Want To Be Open For Business To Anyone

Source: WISH-TV / WISH-TV Tony Katz:   Governor Mike Braun joins us, right, and now the Governor of Indiana, and sir, let’s start with this data center conversation, because there’s a lot of back and forth here in Indianapolis with this Google data center. There’s a conversation about the power these data centers use, up a question about whether or not they bring any jobs or are these jobs all taken by people on H1B visas and therefore it’s not…

Franklin Township Schools reverses stance, backs controversial Google data center

Less than a week before a vote that could determine the fate of a controversial data center campus in southeast Indianapolis, the local school district has come out in support of Google's plan.