This Indiana community is caught between coal and the data center boom

Published on May 14, 2026

Photography by Neeta R. Satam JASPER COUNTY, Indiana—Barb Deardorff loves her living room’s wide picture windows. She can gaze out at the cornfields, where sandhill cranes warble and graze, and in the evening, she can unwind from her hectic job as a teachers’ union organizer by watching the sun go down. Her sunset…

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This story was originally published by Sentient Media. It has been edited to conform with Corporate Knights style.Amid the cow-shaped ice sculptures at the 20th annual Embryos on Snow event in Colorado, buyers in cowboy hats bid on the genetics shaping the future of America’s cattle industry, from frozen embryos to semen. Auctioneers tout breeding programs, semen collection company sponsors and ev