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Four Republican St. Joseph County Council members are asking Amazon Web Services to voluntarily pay into a fund that would give homeowners property tax relief, despite the council granting the tech giant an abatement in August 2024.

Amazon on Wednesday invited the news media into its data center for the first time to talk about job creation, as many in the public worry about how the growing number of data centers will impact energy and the environment.

After Microsoft announced it won't seek property tax breaks for its data centers, four St. Joseph County Council members have asked Amazon to renegotiate their $4 billion property tax abatement over 35 years.

A St. Joseph County Council committee will consider new restrictions on low-frequency sound, the kind we feel rather than hear, that's emitted by industrially zoned operations like data centers.

South Bend’s Cultivate Food Rescue was honored at AWS re:Invent for its cloud-based pantry system and data tools that help move rescued food to families faster.

Amazon Web Services late Monday announced plans for $15 billion in investment to build new data centers in "Northern Indiana," in addition to the $11 billion data center they're building east of New Carlisle.

The South Bend Regional Chamber has created a webpage with information, including frequently asked questions, about Amazon Web Services' $11 billion data center project near New Carlisle.

After receiving the St. Joseph County Area Plan Commission's unfavorable recommendation Tuesday, the rezoning request needed for a data center near New Carlisle goes to the county council for a final vote Sept. 23.

The St. Joseph County Area Plan staff has given no recommendation, meaning neither favorable nor unfavorable, to a request to rezone over 1,000 acres along scenic Chicago Trail from agricultural to industrial.

Amazon will have to reapply for a wetland permit for its New Carlisle data center project, after it was learned that a contractor impacted a nearby wetland without permission.