Indianapolis
Indiana's capital city, where a council committee now recommends a data-centre moratorium through 2027.
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Why did Indianapolis choose zoning rules over a moratorium on data centres?
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Data Centres: Boom and Backlash: Indianapolis backs freezing new data centresIndiana counties turn pauses into bans
Data Centres: Boom and BacklashA third of Indiana counties resist
Data Centres: Boom and BacklashBackground
Indianapolis is the capital of Indiana and the seat of Marion County, the state's largest city by population. It sits near the geographic centre of Indiana on the White River.
On 1 July 2026 the city's Metropolitan Development Commission voted 5-3 to advance a special use zoning district, SU-47, for data centres, over resident calls for an outright moratorium. That approach was overtaken twelve days later: the City-County Council's Metropolitan Economic Development Committee voted 10-3 on 13 July 2026 to recommend a full moratorium on new data-centre approvals through 31 December 2027 instead, targeting hyperscale facilities over 70 feet tall near residential areas. Council President Maggie Lewis sponsored the amendment and Mayor Joe Hogsett backs the pause; the full City-County Council votes on 10 August 2026.
The move comes amid a statewide wave in which roughly a third of Indiana's 92 counties have adopted some form of data-centre restriction, from ordinances to moratoriums to outright bans in counties such as Marshall and Cass.