The majority of attendees at a public hearing in La Porte, Indiana, supported an annexation of about 1,000 acres of land for a data center. However, some residents expressed concerns about the potential detrimental to local environmental and public health. Microsoft announced in June 2024 that it plans to invest $1 billion to build a data centre in the city, which it claims will create up to 200 new jobs by the end of 2032. The data center will power the Microsoft Cloud and support the adoption of cloud computing and artificial intelligence. The annexation could add 11 buildings to the data center property.