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Dear Supporters,
The Protect Allen County: Fort Wayne Data Center Action Coalition is dedicated to raising awareness and demanding accountability for the nearly 900-acre Google data center on Adams Center Road. Our most pressing advocacy is regarding the protection of our human health and fighting to keep our air clean of toxic carcinogens and harmful pollutants.
Right now, we are raising funds to protect Allen County against current and future hyperscale data center projects. Please click here to donate or visit chuffed.org/project/protect-allen-county.
As of April 2026 and with the help of a professional consultant, a legal appeal has been filed on behalf of Allen County residents regarding the lack of effective air quality permitting. Donations make this advocacy possible.
As we have read reports pouring in from around the country, we have learned how hyperscale data centers are causing irreparable harm to the surrounding communities — reports of higher utility bills, rising medical costs, energy grid strain and failure, toxic air pollution and carcinogens from onsite diesel-fueled generators, massive energy and potable water consumption, destruction of wetlands and wildlife, reports of potentially contaminated drinking water, and more. Please consider donating and helping our citizen lead coalition fight for our human health and future generations.
We should all be able to breathe air that is not polluted by carcinogenic diesel exhaust and particulate matter. We should not have to live in constant fear of failed energy grids due to insufficient infrastructure. We should not have to pay higher utility bills to service the needs of any data center campus.
We should not have to fear that our drinking water has potentially been contaminated with toxic chemicals and PFAs. We should be able to protect our wildlife and and rich biodiverse ecosystems from being destroyed. We should be able to live happy, healthy lives without these potential threats and harms.All funds from this crowdfunding effort will be used to cover costs associated with any legal fees and consulting support, as well as materials for bringing awareness and building momentum (billboards, yard signage, newspaper ads, etc.). Please click here to donate or visit chuffed.org/project/protect-allen-county, any donation amount is greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
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Hello supporters,
We are urgently seeking individuals who live in direct proximity to the Fort Wayne Google data center campus who 1. are living with a respiratory illness, cardiovascular disease, or asthma and/or 2. have someone living in the home with a respiratory illness, cardiovascular disease, or asthma and/or 3. have someone who regularly visits their home that has a respiratory illness, cardiovascular disease, or asthma.
We are asking these individuals to please write a letter of appeal to the Indiana Department of Environmental Management, describing how this decision will directly impact your health or the health of a loved one in your home. Please email your letter along with your first and last name, phone number, and home address to danielledoepke@proton.me — letters must be sent to Danielle Doepke by Monday, April 27th.
In order to file an appeal against IDEM's decision regarding the 179 diesel-fueled industrial generators and one million gallons of diesel fuel stored on Google's Fort Wayne data center campus, we need to have standing and letters from directly impacted community members. Your letter will act as the appeal and our group will file on your behalf — there is no financial risk or risk of filing an appeal.
Once again, letters must be sent to Danielle Doepke — danielledoepke@proton.me — by Monday, April 27th.
Thank you for your continued support,
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On Thursday, April 30th at 5:00pm IDEM will be holding a virtual Public Hearing regarding Google's Phase III data center expansion requests. The expansion of the existing Google data center campus involvings three additional buildings, associated utility infrastructure, internal drives, and stormwater facilities. This is Phase III of a multi-phase, multi-year project.
According to reporting from 21Alive News, “We’re talking more than 867,000 square feet total. If all three buildings were the same size, they would each be the size of a large IKEA store just like the one down in Fishers.”
To make room for the buildings, Google intends to destroy and permanently impact waterways like Adams and Doctor Ditch as well as long-standing, naturally occurring, biodiverse forested wetlands.
Attend the Virtual Public Hearing and Email the IDEM Waterways Office to Tell Them to Not Approve Google's Phase III Request WQC001454 — do not allow Google to continue to destroy and permanently impact our waterways and wetlands
Hearing Notice: https://www.in.gov/idem/public-notices/public-notices-northeast-indiana/#allen. (Project Zodiac Data Center – Phase 3)
Virtual Meeting: https://tinyurl.com/IDEM-Public-Hearing-April30
Meeting ID: 295 254 793 692 59
Passcode: EP9vD7vhDial In by Phone: 1 (317) 552-1674
Phone Conference ID: 935 626 883#Submit Written Comment:
Email: WaterwaysComments@idem.IN.gov
Subject: Public Comment Regarding #WQC001454; I wish to receive a copy of IDEM’s final decisionFastAction link with pre-written comment, just add your information: https://secure.ngpvan.com/YdvEugbG6U2q6gFAUkhJEA2
Data centers destroy the ecosystem and community, and are of no benefit to our society. They contaminate drinking water and raise the cost of resources which comes out of our pockets, not the people building them. We don't need more harm to our community, we need more help. This shouldn't even be a question. Keep Data Centers out of Indiana.