Shots Fired Over Proposal to Build Datacenter in Indianapolis
7th April 2026
Datacenter protests have taken an ugly turn in the US, with gunshots fired at the home of an Indianapolis councilor who recently lent his support to plans for a server farm in the area.
Ron Gibson, a city-county representative for Indianapolis’s 8th District, was woken in the early hours of Monday by gunfire. He found that 13 shots were fired at his front door, and a note left on the doorstep reading “No data centers.”
In a statement posted on social media site X, Gibson said the bullets struck just steps away from where his eight-year-old son had been playing with Lego the previous day, and described the event as “deeply unsettling.”