Project dossier · Posey County (Boberg & Hoenert Roads, near Mount Vernon), Indiana

Posey County data center (Boberg/Hoenert Roads) Awaiting decision

Commissioners stated at an Aug 4, 2026 meeting in Mount Vernon that they will vote no on the proposed data center near Boberg and Hoenert Roads, while continuing to evaluate proposals elsewhere in the county. The developer is unnamed; commissioners disclosed they signed an NDA despite no official proposal. Residents submitted hundreds of opposition letters and requested a two-year moratorium; no formal vote has been reported.

Key facts

Location: Posey County (Boberg & Hoenert Roads, near Mount Vernon), Indiana
Hearing: 2026-08-04
Stage today: Awaiting decision

Source
read 2026-08-14

What to do next

Next step: Heard 2026-08-04; decision pending. Call the board clerk for the vote date and get on the notification list.

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What has happened so far (11 events)

2026-06-03protest
Approximately 100 Posey County residents packed the Alexandrian Public Library in Mount Vernon to oppose a potential data center at Boberg and Hoenert Roads; organizers Melanie McDowell and Kristyn Tromley led the meeting and residents asked the county to extend the existing solar/wind moratorium to cover data centers. · source
2026-07-09hearing
Posey County area planning commission held a four-hour public meeting to discuss setting ordinances for data centers after continued public outcry; committee said it would revise draft ordinances and hold another special meeting. · source
2026-07-13hearing
Posey County Board of Zoning Appeals and Area Plan Commission met in Mount Vernon for nearly four hours to review proposed zoning ordinance revisions for data centers; APC President Joe Marvel said four groups had inquired about zoning rules and that a moratorium must come from the county commission, not zoning boards. · source
2026-07-21coverage
At a Tuesday commissioners meeting, Commission President Bill Collins disclosed that commissioners signed a non-disclosure agreement with an unnamed development company regarding a potential data center; he stated they have had nothing formally proposed to them yet. Residents including geologist Penny Padget raised concerns about water depletion and requested a two-year moratorium. · source
2026-07-22coverage
WNIN public radio reported that Posey County Commissioners signed an NDA with an unnamed data center developer; farmer David Esche said he was approached about his land and turned down the offer. Some residents suggested the retired A.B. Brown Generating Station site as an alternative location with river water access. · source
2026-07-22coverage
The Bullet (WWBL) reported that Posey County commissioners signed an NDA with a development company and that Commissioner Bill Collins said no developments have been formally proposed; the Area Plan Commission scheduled a special session for Monday evening to discuss data centers. · source
2026-07-27hearing
The Posey County Area Plan Commission held a special meeting at the Hovey House in Mount Vernon that reached capacity; attendees in red 'Protect Posey County' and 'No Data Center' shirts commented on proposed amendments to the county's Unified Development Ordinance for data centers. · source
2026-07-28rezoning
At a Monday special meeting, the Posey County Area Plan Commission revised its draft data center ordinance: redefined minor data centers as 100,000 sq ft or less, set maximum building height at 30 feet after fire department input about lack of ladder trucks, and increased property setbacks to 1,000 feet from non-industrial-zoned properties. · source
2026-07-31coverage
14News reported that farmers near Boberg and Hoenert Roads, including 75-year-old Dennis Herrenbruck (whose family has farmed the land since 1849), were approached by an unnamed major tech company to purchase their farmland for a data center; Herrenbruck refused, saying there is not enough money to buy his land. · source
2026-08-04hearing
Commissioners met at Hovey House in Mount Vernon; residents packed the room and delivered hundreds of opposition letters. Commissioners said they will vote no on the Boberg/Hoenert Roads data center but are still looking at proposals in other areas. · source
2026-08-07hearing
Posey County government posted notice of an Area Plan Commission special meeting scheduled for August 18, 2026 at 5:30 PM at the Posey County 4-H Community Center to continue discussion of data center ordinance amendments. · source

Find the paper trail

Find the paper trail (0 filed · 12 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.

Search Posey County (Boberg & Hoenert Roads, near Mount Vernon) 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 Posey County (Boberg & Hoenert Roads, near Mount Vernon) 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 38.020, -87.870 — 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.

Around here

Indiana briefing — rates, grid carbon, PUC contacts.

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Cite this page: GridWatch AI, “Posey County data center (Boberg/Hoenert Roads)”, aigridwatch.com/projects/posey-county-boberg-hoenert-in, 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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