AI Data Center Protest Turns Violent, Councilor's Home Shot

0:00Indianapolis City Councilor Ron Gibson's home took 13 shots to the front door after midnight, with a note left behind screaming no data centers. This looks like payback for his support of a proposed AI data center in the Martin Dale Brightwood neighborhood. Days earlier, Gibson backed rezoning at a development commission meeting for MetroBlox LLC's project, highlighting 300 construction jobs. Over three years, the crowd booed him hard, but the commission greenlit it last week, though the City Council still has the final say. Gibson and his eight-year-old son got woken by the blasts, but came out unharmed. He called it an assault, not just on him, but on his kid's safety and the whole block's piece. Stressing violence has no spot in debates. Cops arrived around 9 a.m., Monday, labeling it a targeted, isolated hit, with the FBI now jumping in to hunt the shooter. No arrests yet. The anti-data center neighborhood group, Protect Martin Dale Brightwood, slammed the attack,

1:00swearing it's not their style, and they're all about peaceful. Pushback. Council President Maggie Lewis echoed that, pushing for real talk over threats to keep democracy rolling. With tensions high around these power-hungry data centers, eyes stay glued on what comes next. That's your California News Today update. AI powered and always on.