Indiana
DataCentersExposed tracks 63 AI data centers in Indiana — 3 operating and 27 in the pipeline — across 18 counties, drawing 17.5 GW of reported power demand from 8 tracked corporate operators. State and local governments have granted those operators $1.9B in tracked tax abatements.
Sources: Methodology, Coverage scorecard
Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated May 29, 2026
Indiana at a glance
The largest footprint in Indiana belongs to Amazon.com, Inc., behind 6 tracked facilities. Alphabet Inc., Meta Platforms, Inc., and Microsoft Corporation round out the most active operators in the state. Many of these sites are filed under shell or project names rather than the parent's — our operator column resolves them back to the real corporate parent wherever the chain is documented.
Geographically, the buildout clusters: St. Joseph County leads Indiana with 7 facilities and a composite risk score of 38/100. Hendricks County and Boone County follow. Our county risk score weights project exposure (40%), power demand (30%), water draw (15%), and land footprint (15%); the full breakdown is shown on each county page.
Indiana is not done growing. 27 facilities are in the pipeline — proposed, permitted, or under construction — which is where residents still have a say at zoning hearings and in rate cases. Each pending project is a decision about land, water, electricity prices, and tax revenue that hasn't been finalized.
We also surface the accountability trail: 7 state bills mentioning data centers and 6 recent news items are tracked for Indiana below, pulled from LegiScan and GDELT and refreshed automatically. Legislation is linked to the counties and operators it names; news is classified by community sentiment.
2035 Buildout Outlook
Under the model's moderate-growth scenario (5%/yr annual load growth), PNNL's IM3 model sites about 1 standardized 36 MW campus in Indiana by 2035 — roughly 36 MW of new electricity demand and ~35 M gal/yr of cooling water. Under the higher-growth scenario (15%/yr) that climbs to 2 campuses (72 MW). For scale, we currently track 63 real data centers in Indiana (17.5 GW of reported power).
- High growth136 MW · ~35 M gal/yr cooling water
- Higher growth272 MW · ~70 M gal/yr cooling water
The model assigns ~100% of these campuses' cooling to evaporative water cooling in Indiana (the rest to mechanical/air cooling), a split it derives from local water stress and wet-bulb temperature.
These are modeled candidate sites, not announced or permitted facilities. PNNL's IM3 model places identical 36 MW unit-campuses at feasible locations under each scenario — it shows where demand could concentrate, never a specific parcel. Figures use a market-gravity weight of 50. How the model works.
Top operators in Indiana
Per-deal tax breaks on record
- St. Joseph County data center tax package$1.9B
Specific incentive records we have matched in Indiana (state certified-exemption lists, agreements, and disclosures) — most have no public per-site dollar value, so a count is shown rather than an invented figure.
County risk leaderboard
| County | Facilities | Pipeline | Risk |
|---|---|---|---|
| St. Joseph County | 7 | 3 | 38 |
| Hendricks County | 2 | 1 | 18 |
| Boone County | 2 | 1 | 14 |
| Tippecanoe County | 2 | — | 6 |
| Lake County | 7 | 6 | 4 |
| Hancock County | 2 | — | 4 |
| Monroe County | 1 | — | 4 |
| Marion County | 6 | 3 | — |
| Porter County | 5 | 1 | — |
| Clark County | 4 | 4 | — |
| LaPorte County | 2 | 2 | — |
| Allen County | 2 | 2 | — |
Pipeline & proposals
- Proposed5.2 GWPrologisOperator unknown · Shelby County
- Proposed500 MWSentinel Data Center: Project ShirleySentinel · Lake County
- Proposed407 MWMeta Jeffersonville (proposed)Meta Platforms, Inc. · Clark County
- Proposed250 MWSabey Data CenterOperator unknown · Marion County
- Proposed3 MWQLevr Data CenterOperator unknown · Clark County
- ProposedAmazon Data CenterAmazon.com, Inc. · Jasper County