Residents near potential South Bend data center site react

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — ABC57 followed up Tuesday on recent reports that a data center development was coming to South Bend.

City officials have yet to confirm whether or not a development is incoming, sticking to their prior statement that called the concept “speculative.”

The proposal, if it is legitimate, would place a ten-building complex on a 300-acre plot of land near State Road 23 and South Bend Ethanol.

ABC57 caught up with neighbors on Calvert Street Tuesday, just a few hundred yards from the ethanol plant to hear their opinions.

Of the four residents our crew spoke with, three were in favor of another development and the potential jobs it could bring to the area.

Our reporters also reached out the reported landowners, Ceres Partners LLC, as well as the company they were purchased by earlier this year, WidsomTree, but did not hear back.