id: provident-chesterton
name: Provident Chesterton data center
status: cancelled
location:
  country: US
  state: IN
  county: Porter
  locality: Chesterton
metrics:
  investment_usd: 1300000000
first_seen: "2026-07-07"
last_updated: "2026-07-07"
confidence: low
sources:
  - url: https://www.datacenterwatch.org/report
    title: "Data Center Watch report"
    publisher: Data Center Watch
    date: "2024-06"
    note: "Reports $1.3B investment and June 2024 cancellation after community resistance."
signals:
  - sig-20260706-provident-chesterton-investment
  - sig-20260706-provident-chesterton-status
notes: >
  Proposed data center cancelled in June 2024 after community resistance
  over air quality, water, and property values — recorded as a cancelled
  (dead-proposal) record per the negatives-are-data doctrine. Support is
  thin: a single low-confidence source (Data Center Watch), hence aggregate
  confidence low. The project's apparent operator/backer "Provident" has no
  entry in operators.yml, so the operator field is omitted; "Provident"
  needs an operators.yml entry before it can be linked. No capacity, land,
  or announced/operational dates were sourced, so those fields are blank.