13 shots pumped into Indianapolis official’s front door raises fears over violent data center opposition: ‘Deeply unsettling’

NY Post ^ | 4/07/26 | Marc Vartabedian

[Libloather]

A terrifying attack on an Indianapolis city councilman’s home has ignited fears that mounting opposition to the data centers that power artificial intelligence is taking an increasingly violent turn.

Ron Gibson, who is serving his third term on the Indianapolis City-County Council, said someone fired 13 shots into his front door early Monday – and left a handwritten note that said “NO DATA CENTERS”.

That was just days after Gibson attended a Metropolitan Development Commission meeting to support a data center project, one the developer said would be used at least in part for AI, in a local neighborhood — drawing boos from attendees when he stepped up to speak about the jobs it could bring, according to a CBS News report.

“Just steps from where those bullets struck is our dining room table, where my son had been playing with his Legos the day before,” Gibson said. “That reality is deeply unsettling.”

Opposition to data centers has escalated rapidly over the past year, according to a November report by the Soufan Center, a security-focused research group. The hulking facilities have become lightning rods for fears that AI is poised to eliminate jobs, even as the data centers themselves threaten to jack up electricity and water bills.

Last week, a data center developer in California alleged in a lawsuit that a group of eco-activists orchestrated a vicious online attack that led to calls for “public executions” and Luigi Mangione-inspired death threats.

In December, a city council meeting in Port Washington, Wis., ended with police cuffing and dragging off a group of middle-aged women who derailed a hearing on a data center project, local news footage shows. The women were cited for disorderly conduct, according to reports.

[Salamander]

It’s going to drive now-impoverished country people into ghettos.
Just watch.

[Salamander]

Finally someone who gets it!

[Salamander]

It’s a rural cleansing.
Same as the infinite empty warehouses everywhere there used to be beautiful land.

I’m glad I’m old.

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[JennysCool]

Nice! :)

[Aquamarine]

...and the fans to keep the computers cool are noisy.

[Celtic Conservative]

“In December, a city council meeting in Port Washington, Wis., ended with police cuffing and dragging off a group of middle-aged women who derailed a hearing on a data center project, local news footage shows.”

Middle aged menopausal women have become the bane of modern politics.

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[Manuel OKelley]

There were a couple that got stopped here because of the pushback but several over objections -when these things start burning down it won’t be a surprise

[bobcat62]

Eventually, the AI bubble will burst.

[fireman15]

Thank Goodness that none of the boys the good councilman hired to do this to his front door shot an eye out. The note is a play straight out of the Democrat playbook.

[fireman15]

Eventually, the AI bubble will burst.

Nothing good is going to come from overbuilding AI capacity. We are already witnessing the some of the big players such as Anthropic starting to falter. The only thing that is keeping this scam going is circular money flow from large entities which makes much smaller actual investments look like much larger commitments. Nvidia is at the center, but Microsoft, AMD, Intel, and all the big providers are passing huge sums back and forth and round and round.

The actual products are entertaining but cannot be relied on to give good numbers or answers. I have wasted a lot of time with all the major providers of major services, and they all still give bad or inconsistent answers much of the time.

My favorite uses are image, video and music production which do not really matter. I often ask questions about subjects which I have lots of knowledge of just to see whether I will get good info back.

[Norski]

” . .I often ask questions about subjects which I have lots of knowledge of just to see whether I will get good info back.”

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All should do this, especially when the answers are critical.

Attorneys, medical professionals, etc.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Democrat
Community Organizer
Originally appointed to spot.
Yogi? Yes, Boo-Boo.

Hoax.

[Vermont Lt]

You are confusing AI stocks with the AI systems.

AI systems are not going away.

[Vermont Lt]

You are fighting the introduction of electricity, the telephone, TV, and the internet.

How did that work out?

[Sirius Lee]

It’s okay to shoot people and destroy property if you’re angey.

[AppyPappy]

It depends on the data center design. Closed systems don’t use as much water.

[dforest]

I believe I already acknowledged my typo on this thread and corrected the grave sin. I never said it was okay to shoot up anyone’s door. I said that there are people angry about all these data centers and how it costs them, ya SA.

[Sirius Lee]

Rationalizing violence is consent.

[circlecity]

“ Rationalizing violence is consent.”

but acknowledging the motive behind it isn’t.

[ek_hornbeck]

It isn't hard to understand why so many communities oppose data centers - they take over vast tracts of land that could be used for developments, farmland, or public recreation, consume huge quantities of water, and use as much electricity as 100K+ households, thus driving up energy prices for everybody else. The data centers don't generate job in the local community (except perhaps temporary construction work while the centers are being built), because they'll be staffed with people brought in from the outside.

And for what? So Silicon Valley oligarchs can run cryptocurrency speculation scams? Of course there will be opposition, including violent opposition, from communities who were never consulted. The best thing Ron DeSantis every did for Florida was to say NO to data centers. Let the Silicon Valley oligarchs build them in their own Califoria vicinity.