Indiana Mayor Caught on Camera Dismissing Data Center Critics as 'Unkempt' Renters

Executive Briefing

• Reveals Shelbyville Mayor Scott Furgeson privately mocked residents opposing a data center as living in 'sh*tty houses'
• Shows over 2,000 residents signed a petition against the project, yet the city council approved it in April
• Highlights developer Prologis plans to convert hundreds of farmland acres into an 11-building data center complex
• Indicates at least 70% of Americans now oppose data centers being built near their homes, per a new survey
• Suggests Indiana is becoming a Midwest data center hub, with Amazon alone planning 30 facilities consuming 2.2 GW annually