Union Township residents show up in force to protest data centers proposed for rural community

Union Township residents show up in force to protest data centers proposed for rural community

The Porter County Expo Center was a mass exercise in solidarity Tuesday evening as over 1,000 Union Township residents crammed into the main ballroom to vehemently oppose two data centers proposed for Wheeler. The sea of orange T-shirts that read “Wheeler Country Not Corporate” covered nearly every body in the 530 chairs, while hundreds more stood on three sides around them. That visual message was audibly reinforced at a deafening level as the …

Bessmer residents want answers about 4 million square foot data center coming to city

An aerial view of a proposed data center site within Bessemer's city limits. Residents who live near the property are concerned about a lack of information about the project and disruptions from the center -- which, if built to planned capacity, would be one of the largest in the United States and could become one of the largest single consumers of electricity in the state. (Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News)This article originally appeared on I…