New🔴: NIPSCO is requesting IURC approval of a 15-year special contract with a 2,400 MW data center customer, whose identity is not revealed but is "one of the largest corporations in the world." The data centers will be served with gas, batteries, and possibly coal.

A new 500 MW customer -- most likely, another data center -- is proposing to come to Fort Wayne, according to a new AEP submission. Its ~10 miles away from a 1,200 MW Google data center under construction.

We (Citizens Action Coalition) are now tracking more than 10,000 MW of data centers being planned and constructed in Indiana by the Big 4 tech companies. These facilities could use more than 80% of our electricity. Dozens of additional large data centers have also been proposed by others.

🔴 NEW 🔴 Lomborg for years has argued in op-eds, lectures, and the media that there are more important global issues to prioritize than climate change, writing in April that “it is not the existential threat that some would have us believe.”

i'm very glad this technology is being forced onto us everywhere on all levels

The ink isn't even dry on AES Indiana's IRP, which found SMRs are not cost effective under any scenario, and the utility is announcing it is doing a study on siting SMRs at its power plants!? More imprudent and wasteful spending that will result in rate hikes for Indy residents.

AI and Crypto data centers need to be the first ones to lose power in a brown out.

A data center development recently caught ignoring environmental laws in Indiana is also being picketed by union workers for relying primarily on out-of-state labor. Not only do data centers provide few permanent jobs, they aren't even using local labor to build 'em! local150.org/news/local-1...

New: Duke Energy Indiana is proposing to force ratepayers to subsidize a transmission project to serve a Meta data center and other C&I customers at River Ridge. The cost of the project just 🚨doubled🚨 to $216 million. Data centers are making your utility bill go up📈

Went to a community input meeting for new data center zoning Everyone hates data centers, it’s pretty great

DTE is teaming up with big AI to raid Michiganders’ wallets, jacking up utility bills so billionaires can power a massive data center that will suck up 25% more power than DTE customers already use.  Tell me, how does this help the rest of us? www.mlive.com/news/2025/10...

spanfeller makes an oblique data center reference in her speech about making big energy users pay their fair share, to thunderous applause

CenterPoint has proposed a $29.9 million transmission project to serve "Project Raider" located along the transmission line stretching between two coal plants in southwest Indiana. Project Raider will use 600 MW of power, suggesting it is a data center or very large industrial customer.

New analysis by AES Indiana shows that new nuclear SMRs are wildly uneconomic and would significantly raise utility bills for Hoosiers, even assuming big price declines by 2035 and lavish subsidies by federal and state government.

Electricity now costs 267% more (!!) for 1 month vs. what it cost 5 years ago near data center hotspots. Awesome reporting from Josh Saul @dinabass.bsky.social Leonardo Nicoletti @naurtorious.bsky.social Demetrios Pogkas (gift link) www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

You should read the whole piece from @edzitron.com but if you only read one paragraph, make it this one: OpenAI has burned so much money that there is no more money. Read that again: it's not just OpenAI that's broke. All of VC is broke. www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...

Tell the PA Department of Environmental Protection to DENY the Homer City fracked gas plant air permit! This will be one of the largest fracked gas plants in the country and it will power an energy-sucking data center. Take action by Sept. 29th: secure.everyaction.com/DztxH0ymAUW5...

The moment Google withdrew its petition for an AI data center in Indianapolis last night.🎉 Organizing works! We can win when we fight back against Big Tech! AI data centers are NOT inevitable. This is the ninth one stopped in Indiana thanks to communities organizing in opposition. 💪

It’s important for everybody to understand that when your electricity bill doubles, it is doubling to pay for data centers which will be housing mainframes to operate AI using your electricity and your water, and you will pay through the nose to develop a technology to replace you

The IBJ - Indianapolis Business Journal just layed out the whole Google data center proposal in ONE article Whew 😲😲😲 www.ibj.com/articles/faq...

ICYMI: LG&E wants to spend $3B on 2 new gas plants & extend the life of two new coal plants, largely due to future data center demand. Other states have higher energy bills now because of data centers, but LG&E says it has a mechanism to protect KY ratepayers... which some are very skeptical of.

"A secretive appropriations process killed or reined in three bills regulating the use of pricing algorithms. A bill to monitor data center electricity use was also culled." #California calmatters.org/economy/tech...

Your power bill is going up, your water is being poisoned, your air is polluted, and if you live near a data center you just get used to the non-stop humming of the place. But look on the bright side: AI is making a tiny handful of billionaires even richer so Google can get basic math wrong.

We live in a version of the universe where a mega corporation needs more power than a major American city so that an AI data center can run a chatbot of John Cena sexting a kid.

HEY friends: recently seen heaps of "disclosures" from AI companies of the energy cost per question you type into chatbots (most recently from Google)? Presenting per-query 'efficiency' is part of big tech's efforts to hide its extremely real and happening-right-now climate impacts! NEW POST -->>>

Data center deluge: Towns are “just so in the dark about how big these facilities are going to be, where they’re going to get their power from, where they’re going to get their water from." prospect.org/environment/...

Louisiana has to build three new natural gas power plants to accommodate the "AI" data center that Meta just crammed through because said center will use *Three Times* as much electricity (and, thus, attendant resources) as the *Entire City Of New Orleans*, every year. Y'all this isn't sustainable.

What happens when a massive data center is built 1,000 ft. from your house? For one couple, it meant their water ran dry and their electricity bills doubled. @nytimes.com interviewed Beverly & Jeff Morris, who live in New County, GA, about what it’s been like living across from a Meta data center.

Surging data center demand fuels US power price hikes www.semafor.com/article/07/2...

“A data center like Meta’s … typically guzzles around 500,000 gallons of water a day … Because electricity is more costly for data centers than water, companies often prioritize building their facilities in places with cheap power, even if the area is drought stricken.” Paywall-free gift article:

OH's energy regulator sides with everyday ratepayers and utility AEP in their battle with Big Tech over who covers the costs of the data center boom. Ratepayer's comment to PUCO captures it nicely: “citizens should never be asked to financially subsidize the largest companies in the world.”

Boy the clean-energy industry's strategy of abandoning the climate movement and tying on to the data center buildout has really swayed a lot of GOP (sarcastic)

As electricity-guzzling data centers flock to Indiana, utilities are proposing the most expensive gas plants in state history, the Governor and President are pushing to keep uneconomic coal plants open, and local govs are banning renewables. A disaster for ratepayers & climate.

Great story on how Hoosiers across the state are getting organized, fighting back, and WINNING against large data center developments that threaten their communities. 5 data centers defeated...and counting!

Maryland needs to block this. A lot of Maryland’s financial woes are directly caused by Virginia and it’s time for it to stop: MD could get hit with $800 million energy bill due to VA data center needs Source: WMAR 2 News Baltimore search.app/nP6EnpNBauPo...

As we talk about Microsoft and Amazon pulling back on data center projects, don’t ignore what’s happening in China, where “projects are failing, energy is being wasted, and data centers have become ‘distressed assets’ whose investors are keen to unload them at below-market rates.”

I talked to Heatmap about Indiana's data center boom and backlash to the impacts it will have on neighbors, taxpayers, ratepayers, and the environment. "[W]e’re talking about $1.7 billion per data center in sales tax exemption, just on the electricity portion of their bill."

Indiana was the perfect state for data centers. Then the backlash came. @zeitlin.bsky.social reports, feat. @beninskeep.bsky.social ⬇️

data center demand growth is cannibalizing the skilled labor required to produce the energy those data centers require www.latitudemedia.com/news/demand-...

An update on that high voltage power line they're trying to build for a data center.

NEW: At least 10 states lose more than $100 million per year in tax revenue to data centers. The loss of revenue is surely worse than we can yet document — of the 32 states with data center tax incentives, 12 fail to disclose even *aggregate* revenue losses. 👇🏾 goodjobsfirst.org/cloudy-with-...

Hoosiers defeat another dubious data center proposal! 💪 That is the fifth data center proposal in Indiana to be withdrawn in the past year after staunch, organized local opposition.

Wild to see someone denying AI's extreme environmental impact. AI data centers planned in Indiana could increase total retail electric sales in the state by more than 50% by 2032, sourced primarily from fossil fuels.

👀Okay, I'm going to shout into the void here, but this is remarkable. Data centers are driving up energy costs in VA in a spectacular way. Since the start of 2025, nearly 12% of *ALL* wholesale power costs in VA are attributable to congestion charges from data center demand in Northern VA.

The new data center in New Carlisle will end up consuming about the same amount of power as about half of Indiana's 2.8 million households. www.nwitimes.com/news/local/a...

Even if somebody says that a specific company or data center uses renewable energy for their AI, that just means they are wasting renewable energy that should be going to schools, hospitals, and homes, while we are powering those with fossil fuel