INDIANAPOLIS — On Monday, dozens of community members on the east side of Indianapolis gathered to protest against a data center coming to the Martindale Brightwood neighborhood.

"I can't see any positive outcome from it," Derek Ford with Indy Liberation Center said. "There are so many options that are available and so when we just narrow it that it has to be AI or nothing else, when that's not true at all. There's so many other things that we could do to benefit the community."

Metrobloks says they want to build on about 13 acres of land which used to be the former Sherman Drive-In theater, near East 25th Street and Sherman Drive.

The company says the data center would bring an estimated $10 million of property tax revenue to residents. No groundwater would be drawn from neighborhoods

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