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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.

City of Elkhart officials plan to soon take input from experts as they update their zoning ordinance for battery energy storage systems.

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.

Brett McNeil takes a satirical look at the times in which we live.

Michigan City has approved incentives for a planned data center development. Phoenix Investors plans to repurpose the vacant Federal Mogul property on Royal Road into a data center campus.

The city of Mishawaka rushed to stake its claim to serve the planned Microsoft data center when it learned that St. Joseph County officials, knowing Granger residents oppose being annexed by the city, plan for a private nearby water utility to instead serve the site.

Amazon community engagement manager Amy Jaballah says the company has no more grant funding rounds planned for now but will always look to help local nonprofits and boost STEM skills among area youth.

With tech companies looking to invest billions of dollars into data centers, Ivy Tech is helping prepare local residents for new job opportunities. The college plans to launch two programs at its South Bend/Elkhart campus this fall.

The developer wants to rezone 1,057 acres along scenic Chicago Trail, designated as green space or agriculture in county and town plans, to build a data center. New Carlisle town officials say they'll already have their hands full with the massive data center that Amazon is building nearby.

Suburban and rural fire territories say it's increasingly difficult on their own to provide fire and ambulance services that people have come to expect.