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Google Fort Wayne data center

Fort Wayne, Allen County, INDeveloper: Google

Also known as Project Zodiac

OperatingBegan operations in December 2025; a Google developer has filed to fill forested wetland for new buildings
  1. Rumored
  2. Proposed
  3. Approved
  4. Under construction
  5. Operating

Google's $2 billion data center at 5801 Adams Center Road in Fort Wayne, first introduced as Project Zodiac, started operations in December 2025. Filings suggested a 12-building campus spanning more than 700 acres, developed in partnership with Indiana Michigan Power. In 2026 a Google developer applied to the Indiana Department of Environmental Management to fill forested wetland for three new buildings.

Stated investment
$2 billion[1]

Key facts

Size & schedule

Site sizemore than 700 [1]
per local government filings
Source excerpt
“Filings with the local government suggested it could be a 12-building data center campus and span more than 700 acres of land.”
Buildings12 [1]
per local government filings
Source excerpt
“Filings with the local government suggested it could be a 12-building data center campus and span more than 700 acres of land.”
Stated investment$2 billion [1]
Source excerpt
“The developers of Google's $2 billion data center in Fort Wayne, Indiana, have revealed that the facility is now operational.”
Permanent jobs (promised)up to 200 [1]
Source excerpt
“the facility is expected to employ up to 200 people”

How big is that? Data center sizes compared with football fields and Central Park.

Power

UtilityIndiana Michigan Power (I&M) [1]
Utility pages: Indiana Michigan Power · data centers and bills
Source excerpt
“developed in partnership with Indiana Michigan Power Company (I&M)”
Power supplyGrid (I&M) with a custom demand response program [1]

Water

Water permitFiling with the Indiana Department of Environmental Management to fill forested wetland [3]
Source excerpt
“Rather than color within those lines, Google's Hatchworks would rather stick to its original design plans, explaining in its filing with the Indiana Department of Environmental Management that it's simply impossible to avoid shellacking the marshland.”

Money & incentives

Abatement term10 years [2]
50% real property tax abatement per building
Source excerpt
“The agreement stipulated that the City was to give the company a 50% real property tax abatement for a term of 10 years for each building constructed on the development site.”

Local decisions & site

Deciding voteFort Wayne City Council approved a taxpayer agreement with Google on a 7-0 vote [2]
Source excerpt
“City Council members voted 7-0 to approve a taxpayer agreement with Google, which had committed to a $845 million investment in the project, bringing at least 30 full-time jobs to the area.”
Parcel / address5801 Adams Center Road [2]
Source excerpt
“The data center, which was first introduced as Project Zodiac in late 2023, started operations at 5801 Adams Center Road in December.”

Figures are as stated by the cited source. Where sources disagree, each figure is shown.

Water and power

Water

Not disclosed. No source reviewed gives a water figure for this site. The Census does not estimate one.

Power

UtilityIndiana Michigan Power (I&M) [1]
Power supplyGrid (I&M) with a custom demand response program [1]

Disclosed figures only, each as the cited source states it. Many are projections or permit limits, not metered use. How data center water and power use is measured, and every disclosed figure →

Timeline

  1. Allen County Commissioners vote 3-0 to approve annexation of 728 acres [2]

  2. Plans for the data center, known as Project Zodiac, are revealed [1]

  3. Data center begins operations [2]

  4. Google launches an informational website about the data center [2]

  5. IDEM approves plans for more than 140 additional emergency diesel generators at the campus [4]

  6. Google seeks a third air permit modification, for 228 more emergency diesel generators on top of 174 existing [5]

  7. IDEM approves a permit to fill 2.13 acres of forested, isolated wetlands for three new buildings in the third expansion phase [4]

Issues raised

  • Residents raised concerns about energy costs, air quality, noise and impacts on local wetlands [2]
  • Google says it is funding a new water tower and will replenish 120% of the freshwater it consumes by 2030 [2]
  • A developer for Google applied to fill forested wetland to build three new buildings [3]

Issues are concerns and claims raised by the parties, officials or residents named in the cited sources. They are reported as attributed, not as findings by the Census.

Sources

  1. Google's $2bn data center now operational in Fort Wayne, Indiana
    DatacenterDynamics · Dec 11, 2025 · news
  2. Google creates website to address questions, concerns about Fort Wayne data center
    21Alive (WPTA) · Feb 17, 2026 · news
  3. Google Data Center Announces Plans to Pave Over Protected Wetlands
    Futurism · Aug 7, 2026 · news
  4. IDEM approves Google’s latest request to fill wetlands for Fort Wayne data center expansion
    21Alive (WPTA) · Sep 11, 2026 · news
  5. Google says it needs more emergency generators at its Fort Wayne data center
    WBOI · Sep 21, 2026 · news

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Last updated Sep 23, 2026. Figures may change as records are updated — include the date you retrieved them.

APAData Center Census. (2026). Google Fort Wayne data center. Retrieved from https://datacentercensus.com/dc/google-fort-wayne-in
MLA“Google Fort Wayne data center.” Data Center Census, Sep 23, 2026, https://datacentercensus.com/dc/google-fort-wayne-in.
Linkhttps://datacentercensus.com/dc/google-fort-wayne-in

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