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The Indiana House on Monday passed a bill to give local communities 1% of state sales tax that data centers are exempted from, while eliminating the public rezoning process that a growing number of communities have used to stop data centers.

The commissioners passed a resolution Thursday, urging local governments and utility providers “to develop and implement a comprehensive regulatory framework.” It also calls on developers to publicly disclose how much water they expect to use and where they’d get their power – along with steps they’d take to avoid financial impacts on local residents.

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.

New York data center developer Western Hospitality Partners plans a 10-shell data center on a 300-acre industrially zoned site on South Bend's southwest edge.

St. Joseph County Assessor Mike Castellon says Senate Enrolled Act 1 will force a 35% reduction in the county's total assessed value for property taxes, thanks to new exemptions on business personal property.

Republican County Council member Amy Drake says someone sent Department of Child Services investigators and several county police officers to her Granger home at 2 a.m. for a welfare check. She wants DCS and police to investigate and prosecute the caller.

After an eight-hour meeting stretching from Tuesday into Wednesday, the council voted 7-2 against a New York developer's request to build 14 data shells, each the size of Notre Dame Stadium, on 1,000 acres of farmland near New Carlisle.

Supporters Monday held a press event saying the data center would not raise electric rates or stress water resources, but critics countered Tuesday with their own event refuting those claims.

The St. Joseph County Council is set to vote Tuesday on a rezoning needed by a New York developer to build a data center on over 1,000 acres along Chicago Trail near New Carlisle.

Mishawaka Mayor Dave Wood says he's not in touch with the issues opponents have raised regarding a proposed data center near New Carlisle, but he thinks the project's job and tax revenue would benefit the local economy.