(La Porte, IN) - The La Porte City Council is expected to consider a request to annex during its meeting tonight.

The owners of more than 1,000 acres of farmland are asking the city to annex their property beside the Microsoft data center construction site on Boyd Boulevard near U.S. 35.

There’s speculation granting the request would mean another data center in the city limits or expansion of the data center that began going up a few weeks ago on farm land previously annexed into the city.  The city council meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. at City Hall.

A deal with Microsoft calls for the city to receive tens of millions of dollars in new revenue and several million dollars for the schools annually for 20 years.  Another data center on the ground annexation is sought would mean county government sharing in the additional revenue under an agreement struck between the city and countyl council.