Meta Jeffersonville In review
Chip types: B300. Epoch AI estimates ~178 MW.
Key facts
- Operator
- Meta
- Owner
- Meta
- Size
- 178 MW
- Location
- Jeffersonville, Indiana
- Stage today
- In review
Source
read 2026-08-14
What to do next
Next step: An application is in the record. Ask the planning office for the next hearing date and request formal notice.
What has happened so far (8 events)
- 2024-01-25announcement
Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb announced Meta will build an $800 million, roughly 700,000-square-foot data center campus at River Ridge Commerce Center in Jeffersonville, Meta's 18th U.S. and 22nd global data center. · source - 2024-01-25coverage
Construction on the Jeffersonville facility was set to begin that month and be complete in 2026, supporting more than 1,250 construction jobs and 100 permanent tech jobs. · source - 2025-10-04protest
Community groups including Hoosier Action and Clark County Moms held a meeting to organize opposition to the Meta data center, citing concerns the facility could use up to 5 million gallons of water daily and raise local utility costs. · source - 2025-10-07coverage
Meta said it had contributed nearly $500,000 to schools and nonprofits since its 2024 groundbreaking and announced a new Community Action Grants program for Clark County, amid community concerns over a Duke Energy 11% residential rate increase set to take effect in early 2026. · source - 2026-08-03moratorium
The Jeffersonville City Council unanimously passed a one-year moratorium on new data center development (suspending normal rules to push it through three readings in one session), but the Meta facility already under construction at River Ridge is exempt due to federal/state control of the former Indiana Army Ammunition Plant site. · source - 2026-08-03coverage
The city disclosed that Meta paid $4 million upfront in wastewater capacity fees and is projected to generate $300,000-$400,000 in monthly recurring sewer utility revenue once the facility is operational. · source - 2026-08-04public-comment
At the moratorium hearing, residents including Rachel Wurfel (living ~1.3 miles from the Meta site) and James McPherson (a retired IT/data-center engineer) raised construction-related foundation damage, light pollution, and heat/HVAC-cost concerns tied to the ~400 MW Meta facility; resident William Hunt argued the project's 2022 tax abatement was 'an extremely wrong deal.' · source - 2026-08-26coverage
Louisville Public Media explained how the Meta data center was approved outside normal city zoning: Jeffersonville's 2022 development agreement with 'Blocke LLC' (a Meta shell entity) let the project proceed because the River Ridge Development Authority, not the city, controls land use at the former Indiana Army Ammunition Plant site; Jeffersonville approves development plans there but has no zoning say. · source
Find the paper trail
Find the paper trail (0 filed · 13 places to look)
State environmental permits
Backup generators, water withdrawal and stormwater are permitted by the state, usually earlier and in more detail than anything filed locally.
- Indiana IDEM — Office of Air QualityThe program page: which permits this state requires, and the office that issues them.
- IDEM Virtual File CabinetSearchable public filings — search the operator, the shell LLC on the deed, and the address.
County & town filings
The rezoning application, site plan, traffic and noise studies, staff report and every revision.
- Jeffersonville City Council agendas & packetsThe meeting packet carries the staff report, site plan and conditions — verified page for this locality.
- Search Jeffersonville planning filingssearchPlanning departments post application files under many different names. Find the department, then ask the clerk for the application number — that number unlocks everything else.
- Search Jeffersonville property records / GISsearchThe parcel record names the buying LLC and the sale date, which is what ties an anonymous filing to an operator.
Utility & grid records
The electricity request is filed with the grid operator and the utility long before the town hears about it — and states the real load.
- MISO (Midwest & Gulf) — interconnection queueRequested megawatts, queue position and target in-service date. The MW here is the real number; the one at the town meeting is often phase one.
- PJM Interconnection (Mid-Atlantic, Ohio Valley) — interconnection queueRequested megawatts, queue position and target in-service date. The MW here is the real number; the one at the town meeting is often phase one.
- Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission — docket searchSpecial contracts, large-load tariffs and rate cases are docketed here. Testimony and exhibits are public, and are usually more candid than the press release.
- FERC eLibraryFederal filings: transmission agreements, interconnection service agreements, and co-location disputes.
- Search the serving utility for a will-serve lettersearchThe will-serve or load-service letter is the utility's own written commitment. Ask the utility and the PUC for it by name — it is frequently the first document to exist.
Federal databases
Works anywhere, and covers the operator's record at its other sites.
- EPA ECHO facility searchEvery federally-reported air, water and waste permit at a facility, plus its inspection and violation history. Search by address or draw a radius around the site. This project's locality centres on 38.280, -85.740 — search that point with a 5-mile radius.
- EPA EnvirofactsThe same underlying records, queryable by county — useful for 'what else is permitted near this site' rather than one facility.
- EPA Facility Registry ServiceResolves the shell LLC on a permit to the facility it belongs to. Worth a look when the filing name means nothing locally.
These are places to look, not evidence that anything has been filed. Links were checked on 2026-08-21; search links are queries, not records. What to ask for.
Recent news
45 stories tracked since 2024-01-25 across 21 outlets. 29× A community is pushing back on a nearby data center. 11× Local officials are moving to pause or block the project. Most recent: “Lebanon, Jeffersonville expected to receive part of $1B Meta campaign” (Mirror Indy, 2026-08-27).
- Lebanon, Jeffersonville expected to receive part of $1B Meta campaign
- Jeffersonville data center zoning explained: How Meta got approved
- Jeffersonville data center zoning explained: How Meta got approved
- Fayette County commissioners approve Jeffersonville annexations, review data center moratorium and Avery’s Law
- Southern Indiana city approves 1-year data center freeze as residents push back
- Jeffersonville passes year-long data center moratorium amid resident outcry and major utility disclosures
- Jeffersonville passes year-long data center moratorium amid resident outcry and major utility disclosures
- Jeffersonville approves 1-year data center moratorium
- Jeffersonville City Council approves one-year moratorium for data centers
- Jeffersonville passes year-long data center moratorium amid resident outcry and major utility disclosures
- Jeffersonville approves 1-year data center moratorium
- Jeffersonville City Council approves data center moratorium
+33 more on the story tracker.
Automated news aggregation, not human-verified — follow each link to the original outlet. Part of the story tracker, 45 headlines archived.
Around here
- Jeffersonville community briefing — Enactedexpires 2027-08-04
- Indiana briefing — rates, grid carbon, PUC contacts.
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Cite this page: GridWatch AI, “Meta Jeffersonville”, aigridwatch.com/projects/meta-jeffersonville, retrieved 2026-10-11.
As of August 2026 (2m ago) · changes weekly — re-check before citing
A working set of identified proposals a community can track, not a census — most of the country's activity is not in here yet. Pennsylvania is the exception: its rows are synced from PA DEP's own data-center permit tracker, so the state's coverage is close to complete and carries the permit trail with it. **Each row carries its own provenance.** Rows showing a verification date link to reporting or the governing body's own record and were read on that date; rows marked *unverified* have no source on record — a lead to check, not a fact to cite. **Stage is derived, not asserted.** *Hearing scheduled*, *Awaiting decision*, *Approved* and *Withdrawn* are computed from each row's milestone dates on every rebuild, so a hearing date that has passed stops reading 'scheduled'. Hearings get moved and projects re-file under new names — treat a scheduled date as the earliest to act by, and confirm with the clerk before relying on it. Leads are mined into data/project_candidates.json and promoted here only after a human reads a primary source.
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