Two Weeks in the Dark

Indiana stopped taxing the data centers' electricity. Gary spent two weeks without any. By Patti Vasquez

Good morning, folks.

This week Patti’s writing about Gary, Indiana, which has spent the better part of two weeks without electricity, and about the fact that almost nobody outside the Region noticed for nine days.

A derecho hit Northwest Indiana on August 11. Seven people died in storms across Indiana that week. More than 300,000 customers lost power, the…