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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Surge Development LLC
- Address and locality
- 3400 W 500 N · Hancock County · Indiana
- Lifecycle status
- reported cancelled
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 10 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001388
What the source record says
First development phase was reported to include five buildings and a substation; no capacity (MW) or investment figure was disclosed before the application was withdrawn.
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
- 2025-04 · reported proposed
Planned Unit Development rezoning application for the 775-acre Hancock County MegaSite (data center and industrial use, Buck Creek Township, ~15 miles east of downtown Indianapolis near the Indianapolis Regional Airport) filed with the county; a public informational meeting was held 2025-05-08. Submitted renderings depicted Google-branded buildings, though no end-user was named.
- 2025-05 · reported cancelled
Surge Development LLC withdrew its PUD rezoning petition, announced via a county government news release the evening of 2025-05-13, after weeks of public backlash. Baxtel's tracking record for the site lists status as 'Project cancelled before construction.'
Sources and attribution
- Surge: Hancock County MegaSite · Baxtel
- Developer Pulls Application to Build Data Center in Hancock County · WIBC
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID surge-hancock-county-megasite-buck-creek-township-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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