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Microsoft La Porte Data Center
La Porte, La Porte County, Indiana · All 45 Microsoft sites · Every Microsoft case on our tracker
Microsoft La Porte Data Center is a data center under construction in La Porte, Indiana (La Porte County), operated by Microsoft. The public record puts it at announced June 2024, 489 acres, a reported $1 billion investment.
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Facility record
Under construction
- Operator
- Microsoft
- Facility type
- Data center, AI use mixed
- Location
- La Porte, La Porte County, IN
- Coordinates
- 41.5950, -86.7350
- Power capacity
- Not established from a public source
- Land
- 489 acres
- Investment
- $1 billion
- Announced
- June 2024
- Utility
- NIPSCO
- Power source
- Grid
- Cooling
- Not established from a public source
- Water use
- Not established from a public source
- Jobs
- 200 permanent
- Public subsidy
- 35-year data center sales tax credit (IEDC), extendable to 45 years per additional $1B invested within first 15 years, Indiana, 2024
- Community reception
- No reception on record
- 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.
- March 2026Under constructionSite preparation began March 2026; Buildings 1-3 under construction through end of 2027; full completion expected 2029 Source: Data Center Dynamics
- 2025PermittedEntitlement (permitting) phase completed; expanded plan to 17 buildings filed Source: Data Center Dynamics
- June 2024ProposedGovernor Holcomb announces $1B Microsoft data center at Radius Industrial Park, La Porte; announced June 4, 2024; Indiana's fourth major data center announcement of 2024 Source: City of La Porte, IN
Opposition and litigation at this site
Nothing on record as of July 24, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Microsoft La Porte Data Center in La Porte, La Porte County, Indiana appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.
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Public money on the record
| Program | Amount | Granted by | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 35-year data center sales tax credit (IEDC), extendable to 45 years per additional $1B invested within first 15 years | Not established | Indiana | 2024 |
Notes on the record
Radius Industrial Park, La Porte IN (La Porte County, NW Indiana). Initial plan 245,000 sq ft on 489 acres; expanded to 17 buildings with adjacent rezoning sought. First-phase six data centers plus substation. Microsoft stated 'Community-First AI Infrastructure' principles. Coordinates are approximate Radius Industrial Park area. Announcement date corrected from 2024-09 to 2024-06 per IEDC press release dated June 4, 2024.
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
- How the community has received it
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.
- How the community has received it
- Planning commission and governing body minutes, public comment records, and any petition or lawsuit filed in the county.
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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.
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- New Carlisle Chicago Trail Data Center (rezoning denied) · New Carlisle · Undisclosed14 mi · Cancelled · Opposed
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Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Microsoft La Porte Data Center in La Porte?
Nothing on record as of July 24, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Microsoft La Porte Data Center in La Porte, La Porte County, Indiana appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Microsoft La Porte Data Center?
No lawsuit over Microsoft La Porte Data Center appears in the record we track as of July 24, 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 Microsoft La Porte Data Center use?
No water withdrawal figure for Microsoft La Porte Data Center 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 Microsoft La Porte Data Center, and how big is it?
Microsoft is the operator on record. We hold 45 sites for that company across the registry. No capacity figure is on record for this site. The site is recorded at 489 acres.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Microsoft La Porte Data Center," updated July 24, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/microsoft-laporte-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/microsoft-laporte-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 plans for new $1B Microsoft Data Center in Northwest Indiana · City of La Porte, IN · retrieved July 6, 2026
- 2.Microsoft expands plans for La Porte, Indiana, data center campus · Data Center Dynamics · retrieved July 6, 2026
- 3.HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) / HIFLD · retrieved July 23, 2026
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