The data center proceedings did not happen at one table. 250 indexed moments across 14 recordings are spread over five bodies: the volunteer subcommittee that met eight times, the Area Plan Commission, the Board of Zoning Appeals, the county commissioners and the Fairmount Town Council. They now sit in The Grant County Record, where a subject can be followed from one body to the next instead of stopping at each one.
Open the subcommittee's 192 moments →
Where it was heard
- Data Center Subcommittee — 192 moments over eight meetings, March to August 2026
- Area Plan Commission — 49, the August 3 hearing
- Fairmount Town Council — 4
- County Commissioners — 15 indexed moments, three of them on the moratorium
- Board of Zoning Appeals — 2
The questions people asked
Scoped to the subcommittee. Remove body=dcsub from the address and the same question runs across every body in the county — which is the point of asking it that way.
- Rules & process — 115 moments
- Land & zoning — 56
- Public comment — 45
- Property values — 26
- Power & utilities — 19
- Noise & light — 17
- Water, sewer & drainage — 13
Water is the one worth trying across bodies: 13 moments here, 173 county-wide, most of them the Drainage Board discussing the ditches and tile that carry it.
The subcommittee met once in March to organize, then read a 37-page draft ordinance straight through, section by lettered section. Seven review meetings finished it on August 5. The battery storage sections were set aside for an ordinance of their own, and one more subcommittee meeting is planned to check the revised draft before it goes to the Area Plan Commission.
Before you quote any of this
These timestamps were located using YouTube’s automatic captions, which garble names badly. Watch the clip before repeating a name, a number, or a quotation. The video is the record — this page is only a way in.
Common caption errors in these recordings:
| The captions say | Almost certainly |
|---|---|
| BCA, ABC, EZA, PCA | BZA (Board of Zoning Appeals) |
| IDM | IDEM |
| ANIE | ANSI |
| PAFS, PABS, POS | PFAS |
| kayo, capos, ko | CAFO |
| Marian | Marion |
| Record Digital / Recor Digital | one of these — unverified |
| Sweeter, Fair, Cooko | Sweetser, Fairmount, Kokomo |
| Missen wall, salamony | Mississinewa, Salamonie |
| TA River, teas | Teays aquifer |
| Victoria Sparks | Rep. Victoria Spartz |
| Governor Brun | Gov. Mike Braun |
| moratorum | moratorium |
| a LPR, LPR | ALPR (license plate reader) |
Company and personal names are especially unreliable — assume every proper noun is wrong until checked against the recording.
Sources and methods
Every moment below was located by reading the automatic captions of the county’s own YouTube recordings, then spot-checking against the video. Displayed timestamps are the second the exchange begins; links open five seconds early for context. Auto-captions garble proper nouns badly (see the decoder above). Watch before quoting.
- Channel Grant County Government — YouTube channel — https://www.youtube.com/@grantcountygovernment8878
- Video Mar 11, 2026 — Subcommittee meeting 1 (organizing) — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdbMOMurlEo (Timestamps located via YouTube auto-captions, which garble proper nouns. Watch before quoting.)
- Video May 18, 2026 — Subcommittee meeting 2 (draft pp. 1–7) — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXB9X83Rgr0 (Timestamps located via YouTube auto-captions, which garble proper nouns. Watch before quoting.)
- Video May 27, 2026 — Subcommittee meeting 3 (draft pp. 8–12) — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yuz2GgEa6E0 (Timestamps located via YouTube auto-captions, which garble proper nouns. Watch before quoting.)
- Video Jun 10, 2026 — Subcommittee meeting 4 (draft pp. 12–16) — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBPiPZlRIxo (Timestamps located via YouTube auto-captions, which garble proper nouns. Watch before quoting.)
- Video Jun 24, 2026 — Subcommittee meeting 5 (draft pp. 16–21) — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzAt5Nb9Bbk (Timestamps located via YouTube auto-captions, which garble proper nouns. Watch before quoting. The Recor Digital letter is read into the record in this recording.)
- Video Jul 22, 2026 — Subcommittee meeting 6 (draft pp. 21–27) — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y1RadqxMhA (Timestamps located via YouTube auto-captions, which garble proper nouns. Watch before quoting.)
- Video Jul 29, 2026 — Subcommittee meeting 7 (draft pp. 27–30) — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wmU8EFyy6k (Timestamps located via YouTube auto-captions, which garble proper nouns. Watch before quoting.)