Vantage has received initial approval to rezone a parcel of land in Pittsboro, Indiana, for a data center project.
Located in Hendricks County, the operator is asking to rezone 618 acres between County Roads 500 East, 850 North, and 1000 North, as reported by WishTV.
Plans for the project first emerged earlier this month.
The Pittsboro Advisory Planning Commission voted 4-1 on February 25, 2025, in favor of rezoning the site to “warehouse industrial.”
The case will now move to the Pittsboro Town Council for a vote on March 4, 2025.
Of the 618 acres, only 285 will be used for the data center. At least three data center buildings will be developed, one of which is expected to be a 256MW facility while the other two will be 96MW and 48MW data centers. The project is expected to bring 100 full-time jobs to the area.
Vantage plans on using a cooling method that will not see significant water usage and is exploring either an air-to-air cooling or an air-cooled glycol-based system.
The meeting drew dozens of people, many of whom had to wait outside when the meeting hit capacity. Some voiced concerns about noise impact.
Resident Donald Brophy said: “When we moved here from California two years ago, we settled because this was a small, farming town. We’ve got one stoplight. A billion-dollar data center isn’t right for this town.”
Pittsboro is a town in Middle Township, Hendricks County, Indiana, and lies around 24 miles northwest of Indianapolis, the state's main data center hub. To the south in Morgan County, a 391-acre site is being considered for a data center development by an unnamed company.
Vantage Data Centers currently operates 35 data center campuses in North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia. Its US sites are in Arizona, California, Ohio, Virginia and Washington state. Across the pond, Vantage applied to develop a 10-building data center campus in the UK at a former Ford car factory in January 2025. That same month, the company topped out its first data center in Osaka, Japan.
Vantage signed an agreement with VoltaGrid earlier this month to deploy 1GW of off-grid natural gas generation across its North American portfolio. The partnership will leverage VoltaGrid's natural gas microgrid, which will be integrated into Vantage's data centers as its primary power source.
