Sullivan County Siren Outage Exposes Indiana Data Center Power Risk

Construction crews on Potentia's phased $65 billion data center campus at Sullivan County's Heartland Industrial Park severed power lines feeding the county's outdoor tornado sirens during severe weather; emergency officials worked to restore the system and told residents to rely on phone alerts and weather radios in the interim.

The park sits on unzoned land with no statewide standard coordinating large-scale construction with existing critical-infrastructure circuits, and that gap now hands data center opponents a public-safety argument that is harder to dismiss than noise or aesthetics. With PJM's latest capacity auction clearing roughly $9.3 billion higher, data center load among the drivers, operators on that grid already carry the electricity-cost exposure, and new permitting friction could delay project and interconnection timelines statewide. Audit which of your facilities sit near active or planned data center construction, and stop assuming uninterrupted grid continuity while it's underway.