Recore Digital AI data center inquiry Rumored
An inquiry, not an application. Recore Digital approached the Grant County Area Plan Commission in July 2026 about converting an existing cryptocurrency mining operation in the county into what it describes as a 'quiet, permanent AI Data Center'. The county's 24-month moratorium (Ordinance 4-2026) bars improvement-location permits for data centers in unincorporated areas until March 2028 or until the APC's data center ordinance is adopted, so the live question is what that ordinance will require; a seven-member subcommittee (four APC members, three residents) finished its first review of the draft in August 2026. Site, size, power and water figures have not been published. Coordinates are the county centroid.
Key facts
- Operator
- Recore Digital
- Location
- Grant County, Indiana
- Stage today
- Rumored
Source
read 2026-09-02
What to do next
Next step: Rumored only. Confirm with the planning office and file a records request to pin down what is real.
What has happened so far (5 events)
- 2025-12-01meeting
Grant County Area Plan Commission began outlining a data center ordinance — annual energy and water reporting, client-category disclosure, infrastructure offsets, and rules for standby diesel generators and cooling noise were among the items discussed (minutes on the county's APC minutes server; secondary account at citizenportal.ai). · source - 2026-03-16moratorium
Board of Commissioners adopted Ordinance 4-2026, a 24-month moratorium on data center improvement-location permits in unincorporated Grant County, 3-0, after county attorney Martin Harker read it aloud. · source - 2026-07-11proposal
Chronicle-Tribune reported that Recore Digital wants to bring a 'quiet, permanent AI Data Center' to Grant County and had approached the Area Plan Commission; the APC's data center subcommittee is seven volunteers — four commission members and three from the public. · source - 2026-07-25coverage
Chronicle-Tribune opinion column (Tom Marine) described the inquiry as a proposal to convert an existing cryptocurrency mining operation and argued the first applicant should not write the county's rulebook. · source - 2026-08-08meeting
The APC's data center subcommittee met to complete its initial review of the draft data center ordinance; the Chronicle-Tribune described the county as 'one step closer to finalizing a data center ordinance'. · 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.
- Grant County Board of Commissioners agendas & packetsThe meeting packet carries the staff report, site plan and conditions — verified page for this locality.
- Search Grant County 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 Grant County 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 40.510, -85.660 — 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
24 stories tracked since 2025-10-10 across 2 outlets. 18× A community is pushing back on a nearby data center. 3× Local officials are moving to pause or block the project. Most recent: “APC to discuss additional data center moratorium on Oct. 15” (Chronicle-Tribune, 2026-10-10).
- APC to discuss additional data center moratorium on Oct. 15
- Data centers on trial at Marion town hall
- Rep. Gabe Vasquez Backs Data Center Moratorium in Grant County, Champions Two Bills to Protect New Mexicans from Data Center Costs
- What Grant County’s Data-Center Debate Reveals About the Physical Cost of the AI Cloud
- Mack Up Your Mind: We should care about more than just data centers | Opinion
- Marion Awards $75,000 to Strengthen Opioid Recovery
- Alliance Health Centers extend partnership to Grant County
- Ribbon cutting celebration for Matthews Greenspace
- Gas City's Little Free Libraries
- Mayor walks away from proposed data center project
- Meet Marion writer Wyatt Brown
- Data center subcommittee wraps up initial draft review
+12 more on the story tracker.
Automated news aggregation, not human-verified — follow each link to the original outlet. Part of the story tracker, 24 headlines archived.
Around here
- Grant County community briefing — Enactedexpires 2028-03-16
- Indiana briefing — rates, grid carbon, PUC contacts.
Other tracked projects in Indiana
- Project Riverjump (Marion) — Marion (Grant County), 4 mi Withdrawn
- Decennial Group Akron Data Center Campus (proposed) — Fulton County (Akron), 41 mi Blocked by ban
- Google Fort Wayne — Fort Wayne, 45 mi
- Meta Lebanon / LEAP Data Center Campus — Boone County, 53 mi Proposed
- DC Blox Warren Township (Thunderbird Commerce Center) — Warren Township (Indianapolis) / Irvington, 54 mi Approved
Cite this page: GridWatch AI, “Recore Digital AI data center inquiry”, aigridwatch.com/projects/recore-digital-grant-county-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.
Part of the data center project tracker — open data, CC BY 4.0 (JSON · CSV).