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Fort Wayne Data Center (Project Zodiac)

Google · Fort Wayne · 5801 Adams Center Road, Fort Wayne, IN. Every figure below is individually sourced and dated.

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Part of the tracked campus Google Fort Wayne / New Haven Data Center.

The story of Fort Wayne Data Center (Project Zodiac)inherited from campus Google Fort Wayne / New Haven Data Center
Announced capex
$2B
Jobs
200 permanent reported
Derived
Cost per job
$10M per permanent job

Every figure is one row in the ledger below with its source. Derived rows are pure arithmetic on the rows above (not new claims). Absent lines mean the fact isn't on record yet.

In clusterIndiana(86)

The deal

Inherited from campus Google Fort Wayne / New Haven Data Center.

operator
Google
construction
Hatchworks LLC · Builder/developer of the campus; applicant on IDEM air permits for backup diesel generators
utility
Indiana Michigan Power (I&M) · AEP subsidiary; electricity provider, headquartered in Fort Wayne; party to large-load interconnection agreement
grid operator
PJM Interconnection · I&M operates within PJM; Fort Wayne is in PJM territory

Financial structure

Inherited from campus Google Fort Wayne / New Haven Data Center.

Fort Wayne City Council property tax abatement
up to $55M. 50% property tax savings (approx. $55M) over 10 years journalist report
Total campus investment
$2B. Announced $2B campus; construction underway, Phase 1 operational Dec 2025 press release
Indiana data center sales tax exemption
35-year sales/use tax exemption for min $800M eligible capital investment; additional 5-year exemptions per each further $800M, up to a 50-year maximum; performance-based press release

Investment, workforce and specs

Inherited from campus Google Fort Wayne / New Haven Data Center.

Capex
$2B source
Permanent jobs
up to 200 (facilities staff, technicians, support services) source

Power

Inherited from campus Google Fort Wayne / New Haven Data Center. Live grid demand and drought overlay only render on the campus page.

Power source
grid
Grid operator
PJM
Interconnection

Backup diesel generators (Project Zodiac, Hatchworks LLC air permit), 0.53 GW other, Permitted. Emergency backup only (maintenance testing and rare outages), not grid-tied operational generation. Original 2024 permit: 36 generators + 36 tanks (6,000 gal each). Expansion to 179 generators (~528 MW) and 179 tanks holding 1,074,000 gallons diesel approved by IDEM April 2026.

Facility record

operating

Status

hyperscale

Type

Google

Operator

Fort Wayne

Location

2025

Operational

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Construction evidence

Dated satellite imagery of the site itself, oldest to newest, with the campus milestones that landed in each window. This is what the site looked like from orbit while announcements, permits, and energizations were dated into our ledger, so bare land, grading, and building mass tell their own story alongside the paper trail. Sentinel-2 true color, 10 m resolution, cloud-free scenes; click any frame to expand it.

2018-07-07Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2018
2020-06-06Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2020
2022-06-21Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2022
2024-09-18Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024
2025-09-08Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2025

Dated Sentinel-2 imagery, gated to hand-verified site coordinates. Milestones inherited from campus Google Fort Wayne / New Haven Data Center. How we source and verify it: satellite construction evidence.

Evidence

Each fact traces to a source. This is what a verified record looks like next to an unsourced directory listing.

  • record: Fort Wayne Data Center (Project Zodiac) (reported) · source
  • status: operating (reported) · source
  • streetAddress: 5801 Adams Center Road, Fort Wayne, IN (reported) · source · Project Zodiac

Timeline

  1. Aug 2026
    First recorded
    Added to the DEPLOY registry as a sourced facility record
  2. Sep 2026
    Current: operating

Facility-tier record. For campus-scale announced-vs-energized tracking see the data center index. DEPLOY is neutral infrastructure: what is claimed, what is verified, and when.

Common questions

What is Fort Wayne Data Center (Project Zodiac)?
Fort Wayne Data Center (Project Zodiac) is a data center facility record on the DEPLOY registry, in Fort Wayne. Every fact on the record is individually sourced and dated.
Who operates Fort Wayne Data Center (Project Zodiac)?
Google operates Fort Wayne Data Center (Project Zodiac), per the sourced record on the DEPLOY registry.
Is Fort Wayne Data Center (Project Zodiac) operating?
Fort Wayne Data Center (Project Zodiac) is recorded as operating on the DEPLOY registry. Each figure traces to a source.
How verified is the data on Fort Wayne Data Center (Project Zodiac)?
A human editor has reviewed this record for the indexed registry. Every rendered fact shows its source: this is what a verified record looks like next to an unsourced directory listing.

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DEPLOY. (2026). Fort Wayne Data Center (Project Zodiac): data center facility record. Retrieved September 27, 2026, from https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/facilities/google-fort-wayne-in

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