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$7.5 BILLION ‘AI FACTORY’ DATA CENTER PROPOSED FOR FRANKFORT
As Tippecanoe County officials consider zoning regulations that would tighten the opportunity available for data center development, the Frankfort City Council in neighboring Clinton County is planning a Sept. 28 meeting to consider a $7.5 billion data center campus north of Indiana 28, 20 miles from Lafayette.
DataOne, a French-based company, is looking to develop on 115 acres at Frankfort’s Logix Innovation Campus, at 3500 West County Road 0 North/South, about five miles east of Interstate 65.
The company said in a release that the project would include an 800,000-square-foot facility it called an AI factory – which it differentiated from data centers that store, processes and distributes digital data as “a high-density facility specifically designed to train and run artificial intelligence models.”
The company said in its release that, if approved, the project would break ground in late 2026 or early 2027, with construction taking 18 to 24 months. The project would include the company building two additional substations for power, with the data center running off 350 megawatts coming from the grid and 175 megawatts from on-site fuel cells; a closed-loop cooling system that would use approximately 22,000 gallons of water a day; and call for 200 jobs once it opens.
