Google Michigan City data center
Google lists a data center at Michigan City, Indiana and says it is being built. It is being built, since September 30, 2026.
How much power it needs, how much water it would use and who would use it have not been disclosed.
How to read this page. Every fact links to the source it rests on; a number in brackets is its place in the source list. A figure no source gives reads Not disclosed, and nothing is estimated. Where sources give different figures, each is shown with who gave it, and another source's figure never stands in for the record's own. Entries are added and never overwritten; corrections are listed under What happened.
What is known
Each figure as its source gave it. The number in brackets is its place in the source list.
- Land
- Not disclosed
- Power it would draw
- Not disclosed
- Water
- Not disclosed
- Who leads it
- as stated by the source
- Who would use it
- Not disclosed
- Jobs once it runs
- Not disclosed
- Tax each year
- Not disclosed
Every field, with who said it and when (Researcher view)
Impact figures
| Field | Value | Who says so | Source | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| How much power it needs | Not disclosed | |||
| How much water it would use | Not disclosed | |||
| How loud it would be | Not disclosed | |||
| Jobs once it runs | Not disclosed | |||
| Tax it would pay each year | Not disclosed |
The record's fields
| Field | Value | Who says so | Source | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who is building it | as stated by the source | September 30, 2026 | ||
| Who is constructing it | Not disclosed | |||
| How much land | Not disclosed | |||
| Where its power comes from | Not disclosed | |||
| Grid connection | Not disclosed | |||
| How it is cooled | Not disclosed |
The developer's figure is what the company said; what a permit allows is the ceiling a permit sets; measured means observed. Water is in gallons a day or a year, whichever the source stated; a tax claim given as a range shows both ends, each linked to the source that gave it.
Still not public, and where it would show up
The record adds each the day a source gives it. Why these documents.
- Water useA state water right filing or a water supply agreement.
- Who would use itA lease announcement or a tenant named in a filing.
- Power the campus would drawA utility or public service commission docket, an interconnection filing, or an air permit for an on site plant.
- Jobs and taxAn incentive agreement, a county's economic development filing or a fiscal note.
What happened
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(content date)
Google launched a Facebook page dedicated to its Michigan City data center for community engagement [2]
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· Status: being built (the day the page was read; it gives no date of its own)
Google lists Google Michigan City data center at Michigan City, Indiana on its own page of data center locations, read September 14, 2026. [1]
The full Google Michigan City data center timeline, in order
1 correction to this record
Every correction, with its reason
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· the summary of a record items row
the record's rules: the sentence was the source's wording or carried a number not in the card's facts; written again from the article The old and new text.
Every correction on the record is on the corrections page.
The site
Where in Michigan City is not in the public record. The pin marks the center of Michigan City, not a building, and the outline is LaPorte County.
Tap a pin for the data center, the parcel for its record
- This record: Being built, ringed
- data center
- Dashed edge: the exact site is not in the public record
- Smaller pins: 10 other published records in Indiana
Details
- this record's location, ringed
- parcel outline, from the county parcel record
- city limits, U.S. Census Bureau, on a town level record
- county boundary
The other pins are the published projects in the same state, each in its stage color. The imagery beneath is the USGS national orthoimagery, public domain, shown so the land around the site can be read.
- Where
- Michigan City, LaPorte County, Indiana
- How exactly it is located
- Town level, the center of the city
- The parcel
- No parcel outline in the public record
- Nearest homes
- Not computed for a record placed at a place center
- Nearest records
- Nearest records are not computed for a record placed at the center of its town.
Questions about this project
4 questions answered from the record
Who is building Google Michigan City data center?
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Google is the developer. No construction contractor is named on the record yet.
How much power and water does Google Michigan City data center say it needs?
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Power: not disclosed by any source on file. Water: not disclosed by any source on file.
Where does Google Michigan City data center stand today?
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It is being built, since September 30, 2026. The newest entry, September 30, 2026: Google launched a Facebook page dedicated to its Michigan City data center for community engagement [2].
What has Michigan City or LaPorte County decided about it?
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No decision by Michigan City or LaPorte County about data centers is on the record. The LaPorte County page and the Indiana scorecard list every rated row the day a person publishes one.
Sources
Primary documents
- Google: Data center locations, Google, September 14, 2026
Reporting
- Michigan City shares new way for residents to connect with Google about data center project - wimsradio.com, wimsradio.com, September 30, 2026, local outlet
2 sources on file.
Cite this record
Data Center Record, "Google Michigan City data center", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/google-michigan-city-data-center-in, last verified September 30, 2026.
Cite this page
Data Center Record, "Google Michigan City data center", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/google-michigan-city-data-center-in. Data: Data Center Record, datacenterrecord.org, CC BY 4.0.
The structured rows are CC BY 4.0. Link to this page; that is what turns a reuse into a citation. Prose stays under copyright.
For researchers
- Slug
- google-michigan-city-data-center-in
- Status value
- under_construction
- Stage
- Being built
- Tier
- skeleton
- Tags
- skeleton
- Place id
- us/in/laporte-county/michigan-city
- Coordinates
- 41.7088761, -86.8691206
- Location precision
- city
- Location source
- U.S. Census Bureau TIGERweb city centroid, public domain
- Coordinate source
- tigerweb city centroid
- Location source number
- Not disclosed
- Location last verified
- September 14, 2026
- EPA registry id
- Not disclosed
- Use type values
- not_disclosed
- Tenancy value
- not_disclosed
- Cooling type value
- not_disclosed
- Capacity basis
- not_disclosed
- Water basis
- not_disclosed, gallons_per_day
- Acreage basis
- Not disclosed
- Interconnection value
- not_disclosed
- Capacity, if disclosed
- Not disclosed
- Rating of the county's rows
- Not disclosed
- Published
- 2026-09-14
- Last verified
- 2026-09-30