Support for Based in Lafayette comes from Purdue Convocations, presenting Bang on a Can All-Stars. This modern chamber ensemble has collaborated with Philip Glass and Steve Reich for over 30 years. In their upcoming concert “90/90,” they will celebrate the composers’ 90th birthday milestones. Come hear music that inspired a movement in Reich’s Electric Counterpoint, written for an ensemble of 12 electric guitars and two electric basses, along with Glass’s Glassworks, written with cassettes, home listening, and the Walkman generation in mind. Thursday, Nov. 5, in Loeb Playhouse - BUY NOW
WHAT’S IN THE NEW RESTRICTIONS ON LARGE-SCALE DATA CENTERS IN TIPPECANOE COUNTY
Four pages of new zoning regulations intended to make it as difficult as possible to build a warehouse-style, hyperscale data center in Tippecanoe County, without banning them completely, won unanimous approval Monday from county commissioners and city councils in Lafayette and West Lafayette.
In the works for a year, the new zoning codes replace a stopgap, one-year measure – one that pigeonholed large-scale data centers into a little-used zoning designation in hopes of fending them off – approved in 2025 and that was set to expire at the end of November.
With it, Tippecanoe County joined more than half of Indiana’s counties – at least 50 of the 92 with some sort of regulatory ordinances, moratoriums or bans, according to IU’s Environmental Resilience Institute – making moves to restrict large-scale server farms designed to handle the needs of artificial intelligence, streaming services and cloud computing.
“I appreciate (the Area Plan Commission) stepping up to this, because it’s better to deal with it now than try to put the pin back in the grenade,” Perry Brown, a Lafayette City Council member, said Monday night.