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Resident urges county to deny or table Amazon SBN 100 permit, citing emissions and dewatering concerns
Summary
A New Carlisle resident urged the county to deny or delay a permit for an Amazon data center (SBN 100), saying Amazon’s site segmentation avoids emissions oversight, questioning whether generators and fuel tanks would serve multiple sites, and raising dewatering and aquifer concerns.
During the public-comment period, Dan Caruso of New Carlisle asked the board to deny or at least table the permit application for installation and operation of a data center facility at SBN 100 and requested an in-person public hearing.
Caruso said Amazon has three nearby projects (SBN 100, SBN 201 and SBN 250) and alleged the company is treating SBN 100 as a separate entity to stay below thresholds that would trigger additional emissions oversight. He asked whether emergency generators and associated fuel tanks in the permit applied to only SBN 100 or to multiple sites, and he warned that the cumulative effect could be hundreds of generators and millions of gallons of diesel above the local freshwater aquifer. He also raised concerns about dewatering and said the county surveyor advised a separate permit was needed for SBN 201’s dewatering; he asked the board to deny or table the permit until public questions can be answered in person.
No county response or staff rebuttal to the substantive questions appears in the meeting record; the board did not take action on the permit during the meeting.
