The Indianapolis Metropolitan Development Commission voted 6–0 to impose an immediate moratorium on new data-center approvals through Dec. 31, 2027, completing the action after the City-County Council's earlier 23–1 vote. Three already-approved projects are exempt. The city will use the pause to develop standards covering campus size, height, noise, environmental effects, water and electrical capacity. Why it matters: This has moved beyond neighborhood opposition into economic-development policy. Indiana simultaneously wants AI investment and must confront the infrastructure externalities that accompany it. The interesting distinction for IN AI is becoming sharper: AI adoption and AI infrastructure are not the same economic-development strategy. Indiana can become an unusually strong AI user economy without indiscriminately subsidizing every compute project. WFYI report

At a July 29 Senate hearing chaired by Indiana Sen. Jim Banks, witnesses examined how AI is changing hiring, workplace tasks and employer skill requirements. The discussion highlighted three emerging patterns: weaker demand for some entry-level workers, faster transformation of tasks than entire occupations, and changing expectations for how workers acquire new skills. Why it matters: The immediate workforce issue may be less about mass job elimination and more about disruption to traditional career entry points. Employers will need to reconsider how they develop junior talent when AI performs more of the foundational work employees once learned by doing. Read Indiana University’s policy summary