Construction is under way on a $800 million data center in Michigan City, Indiana, which has been approved by the city's Common Council in September for construction. Ashley Williams, a resident and executive director of Just Transition Northwest Indiana, has urged the Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM) and Michigan City officials to halt construction at the Project Maize data center site. She also sent a letter to the Citizens Action Coalition, Hoosier Environmental Center, and NAACP Michigan City Branch 3061-B. The site is a former Federal-Mogul facility with decades of contamination from trichloroethylene (TCE) and other contaminants. Williams requested that construction be halted until all moved soil is fully characterized, all contamination above state criteria has been properly managed, and public protection is protected. The data center's end user is believed to be Google.