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Google Fort Wayne Data Center (Project Zodiac)
Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana · All 53 Google sites · Every Google case on our tracker
Google Fort Wayne Data Center (Project Zodiac) is an operating data center in Fort Wayne, Indiana (Allen County), operated by Google. The public record puts it at announced April 2024, 700 acres, a reported $2 billion investment. It has documented support and documented opposition on record.
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Facility record
Operating
- Operator
- Facility type
- Data center, AI use confirmed
- Location
- Fort Wayne, Allen County, IN
- Coordinates
- 40.9900, -85.0560
- Power capacity
- Not established from a public source
- Land
- 700 acres
- Investment
- $2 billion
- Announced
- April 2024
- Utility
- Indiana Michigan Power (I&M)
- Power source
- Mixed
- Cooling
- Not established from a public source
- Water use
- Not established from a public source
- Jobs
- 200 permanent; 1,000 construction
- Public subsidy
- 35-year sales tax exemption (IEDC), extendable to 50 years, Indiana, 2024
- Community reception
- Mixed reception
- Source confidence
- Confirmed by multiple independent sources or official documentation
Timeline from the record
Newest first. Record entries come from the filings and reports the registry cites. Coverage entries are headlines from publisher feeds we monitor daily, linked to the outlet; last checked September 14, 2026.
- December 2025OperatingGoogle announces Fort Wayne data center is operational December 11, 2025; first phase live Source: WANE 15
- April 2024ProposedGovernor Holcomb and Google announce $2B campus (Project Zodiac) in northeast Indiana; announcement and groundbreaking both April 26, 2024 Source: State of Indiana
- April 2024Under constructionGroundbreaking April 26, 2024 near East Tillman Road and Adams Center Road, Fort Wayne Source: Data Center Dynamics
Opposition and litigation at this site
Partly. Both documented support and documented opposition to Google Fort Wayne Data Center (Project Zodiac) in Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana appear in the record, with no clear majority position. Phase 2 expansion: IDEM approved fill of ~2.5 acres of regulated wetlands for five additional buildings; over 100 residents testified in opposition citing flood control and water quality concerns.
How the community has taken it
Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: mixed reception means documented support and documented opposition both exist with no clear majority position on record.
Phase 2 expansion: IDEM approved fill of ~2.5 acres of regulated wetlands for five additional buildings; over 100 residents testified in opposition citing flood control and water quality concerns. Google committed $1.2M to ACRES Land Trust for 22-acre wetland conservation.
Power and water
188 MW Honeysuckle Solar PPA; demand-response program with I&M to balance AI compute loads with local grid availability; goal of 24/7 carbon-free energy by 2030
Public money on the record
| Program | Amount | Granted by | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 35-year sales tax exemption (IEDC), extendable to 50 years | Not established | Indiana | 2024 |
Notes on the record
Site near East Tillman Road and Adams Center Road, SE Fort Wayne (Allen County). 700+ acres, multi-building campus explicitly optimized for Gemini AI platform and machine learning. Google STAR workforce program launched with Ivy Tech Community College. Coordinates are approximate site area; exact parcel centroid not verified from public permit records. Previous inkfreenews.com source replaced with WANE 15 which confirmed the same Dec 11 2025 operational story.
What the record does not establish, and the document that would
In every fight on our tracker the decisive fact came out of a public records request. These are the requests for this site.
- Power capacity in megawatts
- Cooling method and water use
Which document closes each gap
- Power capacity in megawatts
- The utility's large load service agreement, the interconnection request in the grid operator's queue, or the electrical site plan in the permit file.
- Cooling method and water use
- The water service agreement, any groundwater appropriation permit, and the mechanical narrative in the site plan.
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Other sites within 30 miles
Distances are between recorded coordinates, many of which are a city or county centroid, so treat them as approximate. Cumulative load on one utility and one aquifer is the question a planning commission rarely asks.
- QTS Van Wert Data Center Campus · Van Wert · QTS Data Centers26 mi · Proposed
Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Google Fort Wayne Data Center (Project Zodiac) in Fort Wayne?
Partly. Both documented support and documented opposition to Google Fort Wayne Data Center (Project Zodiac) in Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana appear in the record, with no clear majority position. Phase 2 expansion: IDEM approved fill of ~2.5 acres of regulated wetlands for five additional buildings; over 100 residents testified in opposition citing flood control and water quality concerns.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Google Fort Wayne Data Center (Project Zodiac)?
No lawsuit over Google Fort Wayne Data Center (Project Zodiac) appears in the record we track as of July 6, 2026. Residents most often reach a lawyer over water supply, well drawdown, noise from cooling plant, property value, or a rezoning approved without the notice the ordinance required. If any of that is happening near this site, it is worth a review whether or not a case has been filed yet.
How much water does Google Fort Wayne Data Center (Project Zodiac) use?
No water withdrawal figure for Google Fort Wayne Data Center (Project Zodiac) is on record here. Water use is rarely published voluntarily; it usually surfaces through a utility service agreement or a state withdrawal permit, both of which are public records. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.
Who operates Google Fort Wayne Data Center (Project Zodiac), and how big is it?
Google is the operator on record. We hold 53 sites for that company across the registry. No capacity figure is on record for this site. The site is recorded at 700 acres.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Google Fort Wayne Data Center (Project Zodiac)," updated July 6, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/google-fort-wayne-in.
Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.32.0 (September 7, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/google-fort-wayne-in, retrieved September 14, 2026.
Corrections with a public source are welcome at the Compute Atlas record or through our contact page. The whole registry is available as CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0.
Sources for this record
As compiled and cited by Compute Atlas, with our own reporting appended. Archived links are used where the original has moved.
- 1.Gov. Holcomb announces Google is building a $2B Data Center in Northeast Indiana · State of Indiana · retrieved July 6, 2026
- 2.Google announces $2bn data center campus in Fort Wayne, Indiana · Data Center Dynamics · retrieved July 6, 2026
- 3.$2 billion Google data center now operational in Fort Wayne · WANE 15 · retrieved July 6, 2026
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