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The Member-Owned Corridor
The data-center buildout has reached the electric cooperatives -- Indiana's G&Ts are permitting new substations and new miles of line, and the co-op associations are saying out loud what every member is thinking: the new load has to pay its own way. That puts co-op land departments in a position no one else in the industry occupies. They are building transmission for a utility owned by the people who live along the corridor -- with a fraction of the staff, and an audience for every dollar.
One Digit, Half a State
Indiana's state-plane family is four EPSG codes that sit one digit apart: 2965, 2966, 2967, 2968. Two of them differ by half a state; two of them differ by tenths of a foot. Mislabel a file with the wrong one and you get either an error so loud somebody 'fixes' it wrong, or one so quiet nobody notices until a corner will not check. Here is how the family fits together, the two ways it fails, and the ten-minute habit that catches both.
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