Proposed-site record
Mall-O-Manor's proposed 1,057-acre New Carlisle rezoning received an unfavorable 7-0 Area Plan Commission recommendation, while the end user remained unconfirmed and Meta publicly denied affiliation. The hyperscale label and $12 billion dataset cost remain unverified project/investment leads; water, power, workload, energized capacity, IT load, and public funding remain unresolved.
This panel tracks what the facility is for without assuming that every project is AI training, inference, or cloud capacity.
WNDU reports that the proposed New Carlisle data center received a unanimous unfavorable Area Plan Commission recommendation, while later reporting describes utility and water questions before the rezoning vote. New Carlisle's February 2026 council packet records adoption of a 12-month data-center moratorium. The reviewed sources do not identify a customer, operator, workload, or training/inference split.
The applicant/operator identity was not disclosed in the reviewed reporting. County planning minutes identify Mall-O-Manor LLC among the rezoning petitioners and describe the 1,057-acre agricultural-to-industrial request; this confirms applicant context, not operator or customer status. The council packet confirms a citywide 12-month moratorium adopted February 17, 2026; that permitting constraint does not establish project cancellation or a workload disclosure. The reported $12B proposal value and water/utility figures are development and policy context, not workload capacity or observed use. Keep customer, operator, hardware and allocation unknown.
Sources reviewed; workload unresolved · Reviewed 2026-09-09Training/inference: unknown · class: unknownWNDU: Proposed $12 billion data center in St. Joseph County gets unfavorable recommendationWNDU: St. Joseph County leaders push for third New Carlisle data center ahead of Tuesday voteCity of New Carlisle, Ohio: New Carlisle council packet: Ordinance 2026-06 data-center moratoriumSt. Joseph County Area Plan Commission: Area Plan Commission minutes: APC# 3069-25 rezoning hearingSource leads point to attached records or reporting. They still need field-level review before being treated as verified evidence.
Source dataset project_cost field reports $12 billion; public funding records still need local review.
Source reviewed September 9, 2026: St. Joseph County's planning record and local reporting describe community concerns about water, but the reviewed materials disclose no facility withdrawal, consumption, cooling method, service quantity, or wastewater discharge. Preserve these as unresolved.
Source reviewed September 9, 2026: the Area Plan Commission voted 7-0 against rezoning the 1,057-acre agricultural site for data centers, and local reporting identifies electricity concerns without publishing a utility request, approval, interconnection, generation, energized capacity, or data-center IT load. The dataset's hyperscale label remains unclassified project context.
No fuel-cell or Bloom Energy source is attached to this project yet.
No NDA reported
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