Residents inside Monrovia Christian Church write down their questions for the four-man panel at a town hall Feb. 4 to discuss Project Louie, the potential data center campus coming to Morgan County. Hundreds of people attended the meeting, and were united in their opposition to the project. (Jared Quigg photo / MCC)
MONROVIA — Monrovia Christian Church probably hadn’t seen attendance numbers like this in years.
A crowd of more than 250 people filled the sanctuary and spilled into the hallway for a town hall the evening of Feb. 4 to discuss Morgan County’s proposed data center campus — dubbed Project Louie — potentially coming to Monroe Township.
The data center complex — with up to four proposed buildings — is planned on nearly 391 acres of land just east of Monrovia’s town limits. The campus will be positioned north of Ind. 42, east of West Union Church Road, south of Keller Hill Road and west of Antioch Road.
The town hall for Project Louie came ahead of a Plan Commission hearing Mon...