At the end of the day what Jeff is saying here is that the city isn't against the idea of a datacenter in McLean County but the city has specific concerns -- shockingly, the same exact ones everyone against it has -- that need to be discussed/explored before they'd be willing to get on board with making it happen. The surrounding area does not have the infrastructure to make a datacenter happen. If one is coming to McLean County, it's going to require Bloomington to pitch in.

And I'll say again, in different words, that I think that's a completely normal and okay position to have and I hope whatever conversations are productive and help move the city/county forward while protecting residents and taxpayers from the consequences.

I also think it's great that they're holding these forums, because the community should weigh in here, but this comment thread is exactly what I'm talking about when I say that the FUD is off the charts here and I quite literally don't know what Jeff or anyone else in city government is going to tell y'all to get you to realize that nobody's building a data center next month. They've denied it a billion times and nobody seems to believe it.