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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Metrobloks
- Address and locality
- 2505 N. Sherman Ave. · Indianapolis · Marion County · Indiana
- Lifecycle status
- reported permitted
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 75 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 13 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000956
What the source record says
$500M (two phases; first ~$150M), 75 MW data center on the 14-acre former Sherman Drive-In site at 2505 N Sherman Dr, Indianapolis. ~168,000 sq ft with 36 backup generators. MDC approved rezoning 6-2 on 2026-04-01. Coordinates approximate from the cited street address (pending parcel-precise geocode).
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
- 2026-04-01 · reported permitted
Indianapolis Metropolitan Development Commission approved the rezoning 6-2.
Sources and attribution
- Metrobloks pitches $500m data center in Indianapolis, Indiana · Data Center Dynamics
- Controversial data center is approved for Martindale-Brightwood · WFYI
- Metrobloks' $500 million data center approved despite neighborhood concerns · WRTV
- Martindale-Brightwood residents cite environmental concerns in suit against data center plan · The Indiana Lawyer
- HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) / HIFLD
- Indianapolis council approves data center for Martindale-Brightwood · WFYI
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID metrobloks-martindale-brightwood-indianapolis-in. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added.
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