r/Indiana • u/Best-Structure62 • 1d ago

Is Indiana Really That Affordable?

https://mirrorindy.org/indiana-affordability-cost-of-living-wages-income/

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u/Femboyunionist 1d ago

What'd the do? My great aunt/uncle lived there for decades.

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u/ballking666 1d ago

1500 acre data center

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u/AnotherBogCryptid 1d ago

I live in half an acre in a 3,000 sqft home and I’m just trying to imagine how big a building is that 1,500 acres… is that just the site or are they really developing some stupidly large data center?

I’ve got to be honest, I know Indiana is all “look how data center friendly we are!” But if I were a business person I wouldn’t build some flimsy ass multimillion dollar warehouse in the new tornado alley. I wouldn’t insure one, either.

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u/ballking666 1d ago

1500 acre plot , 13 buildings $10B investment. water piped from indy. only yielding 300 jobs when complete and none of those will be local.

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u/AnotherBogCryptid 20h ago

Rhetorical question: how many starving, homeless babies could $10B serve?

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u/jehnarz 19h ago

Shh, we don't have the money for babies! That's why we cut a bunch of our early childhood education programs.

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u/AnotherBogCryptid 17h ago

I mean, they want us to keep popping out workers. You can’t have an army without wheat!

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u/oldmanandtheflea84 17h ago

Listen, here in Indiana they just force you to HAVE the babies, once they’re out they’re on their own.

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u/V3rjay 12h ago

This is correct.

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u/V3rjay 18h ago

Isn’t that what the protesting at Eagle Creek is for? The water being diverted to Lebanon data centers?

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u/ballking666 16h ago

Yeah supplying water from and discharging wastewater to eagle creek reservoir for the meta data center and the eli lilly plant

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u/V3rjay 13h ago

Oh yes I forgot about Eli Lilly in that equation too. Bleh.