Kansas City-based data center developer QTS has pulled its application for two data centers in Wheeler via a phone call, according to Porter County Board of Commissioners President Jim Biggs, R-North.

Biggs said by phone Thursday that the company had called Mike Jabo, Porter County’s director of development & storm water management, to rescind its application for the nearly 800-acre development planned for two parcels.

When asked what the content of the call had been, Biggs replied, “that they’re moving on.”

“I’m glad Commissioner (Ed) Morales and I felt it important to let the process play out, because compared to what we knew before this, we’ve gained a lot of valuable information by allowing it to play out,” Biggs said.

Commissioner Barb Regnitz, R-Center, had made a public declarat

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