AI Laws in Portage, Indiana

AI Laws USA tracks 18 AI rules that apply to people and businesses in Portage, Indiana: 10+ federal rules, 7 Indiana state-level rules, and 1 local Portage ordinance. Coverage is strongest on government use of AI, consumer protection, data-center siting and energy, and automated decision-making. 8 of these rules are already in effect. Each entry below links to its official source.

Portage local AI rules (and Porter County County)

1 local AI rule specific to Portage, Indiana or Porter County County.

  1. In effect Strength: stronger

    Portage IN Technology Campus district data center rules (2026)

    Portage, IN · Effective August 4, 2026 · City of Portage, Ind. — Technology Campus district zoning ordinance governing data centers (adopted August 4, 2026)

    Portage City Council unanimously adopted a data center ordinance on August 4, 2026 that is the most numerically specific municipal instrument in this dataset. It creates a new zoning classification — the Technology Campus, or TC, district — and makes it the ONLY zoning code that can be applied to a data center project. A developer cannot site a data center anywhere else in Portage, full stop. Inside the TC district the numbers are these: noise may not exceed 55 DECIBELS; no structure may exceed 65 FEET in height; and a facility must sit at least 500 FEET back from a residential district, or 200 feet from other zoned properties. The council tightened two of those on the floor, cutting the noise limit from the 65 decibels originally proposed and the height from 75 feet — so the adopted rules are stricter than what the Planning Commission recommended. And for the largest facilities there is a second gate: a project meeting the HYPERSCALE definition — electrical load exceeding 50 megawatts OR a campus greater than 500,000 square feet — must obtain planned development approval within the TC district, which is a discretionary council decision rather than an administrative one. The TC district is described as established for technology-focused business, light manufacturing and data service usage. Portage is in Porter County in northwest Indiana, where nearly a third of Indiana counties had moved to restrict data centers by July 2026.

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Indiana-level AI rules

7 Indiana state rules apply to residents and businesses in Portage. Sorted strongest first.

  1. In effect Strength: moderate

    Indiana data center local revenue share, IC 6-2.5-15-15.5 (2026)

    Indiana · Effective June 30, 2026 · Ind. Code § 6-2.5-15-15.5, enacted via HEA 1210 (2026) — data center local revenue share, up to 1% quarterly, for periods after June 30, 2026

    Indiana grants data centers long-dated sales tax exemptions — 25- or 50-year certificates under IC 6-2.5-15, available at a $50 million minimum investment, alongside property tax abatement under IC 6-1.1-10-44 for investments of $25 million or more. IC 6-2.5-15-15.5 attaches a condition to that generosity: a LOCAL REVENUE SHARE of UP TO 1%, PAID QUARTERLY, for periods after JUNE 30, 2026. The structural problem it addresses runs through this whole dataset. A state grants the exemption and captures the announcement; the host community absorbs the consequences — the grid load, the water draw, the truck traffic, the noise, the substation, the foregone property tax base that would have funded its schools. The Marion County, Florida commissioner who objected that a 49-megawatt facility is the equivalent of 10,000 to 15,000 households was making a version of this point, as was the Cumberland, Rhode Island sponsor who noted a large data center can use as much water in a day as her entire town. A local revenue share does not reduce any of those burdens. What it does is stop the fiscal benefit accruing entirely to the level of government that does not bear them. This is worth recording as a protection of a specific and limited kind: it is COMPENSATORY rather than preventive. It does not restrict siting, cap size, limit water or require disclosure. A community that does not want a data center gets no help from it. A community that is getting one anyway gets a revenue stream it would otherwise have been denied by the very exemption that attracted the project. Indiana's local response has been substantial regardless — nearly one-third of Indiana counties have adopted restrictions, moratoriums, ordinances or bans.

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  2. In effect Strength: limited

    I&M Industrial Power (Large Load) Tariff Settlement Order (C

    Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission (Indiana Michigan Power) · Effective February 19, 2025 · I&M Industrial Power (Large Load) Tariff Settlement Order (Cause No. 46097)

    The Indiana URC approved a settlement modifying Indiana Michigan Power's Industrial Power Tariff for facilities of at least 70 MW (or 150 MW aggregated), requiring 12-year contracts, minimum monthly demand charges of 80% of contract capacity, exit fees, and collateral so grid-upgrade costs fall on data centers rather than existing ratepayers.

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  3. In effect Strength: limited

    State of Indiana Artificial Intelligence Policy

    Indiana · Effective January 1, 2024 · State of Indiana Artificial Intelligence Policy

    Indiana's state AI policy, issued by the Office of the Chief Data Officer, applies the NIST AI Risk Management Framework and requires agencies to submit an AI Readiness Assessment Questionnaire and report existing AI systems before use.

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  4. In effect Strength: limited

    Indiana Consumer Data Protection Act

    Indiana · Effective January 1, 2026 · 2023 Ind. Acts P.L. 94-2023 (SB 5); I.C. 24-15-1 et seq.

    Indiana's privacy law, effective January 1, 2026, gives residents rights to access, correct, delete, and port personal data, and to opt out of targeted advertising, data sales, and profiling. Enforced exclusively by the Attorney General with a permanent 30-day cure period.

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  5. In effect Strength: limited

    Indiana SB 256 (foreign-adversary AI vendor & student rules)

    Indiana · Effective July 1, 2026 · Ind. Senate Enrolled Act 256 (2026 Reg. Sess.) / Pub. L. 131-2026, eff. July 1, 2026

    Indiana requires new or renewed government contracts for technological products or services — a category that expressly includes artificial intelligence, information systems, and surveillance technology — to include a certification that the contractor and its subcontractors are not 'prohibited persons,' meaning businesses controlled by or domiciled in a designated foreign adversary such as China, Russia, North Korea, or Iran. The law also restricts public colleges from enrolling students from those countries in certain qualifying (including AI) programs until a foreign-influence and research-security review is completed.

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  6. In effect Strength: limited

    Indiana HB 1271 (no AI-only claim downcoding)

    Indiana · Effective July 1, 2026 · Ind. House Enrolled Act 1271 (2026 Reg. Sess.), eff. July 1, 2026

    Indiana bars health insurers from relying on an automated process or artificial intelligence as the only reason for downcoding a claim on medical-necessity grounds; an employee or contractor of the insurer must review the patient's medical record before such a downcode is applied. Health care providers likewise may not use AI to submit a claim without a human reviewing it. Insurers must disclose, in an easy-to-find and readable way, when AI is used to deny a prior-authorization request or to downcode a claim, must explain each downcode, and must give providers at least 180 days to appeal. The rules took effect July 1, 2026 and do not apply to Medicaid.

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  7. In effect Strength: limited

    IN NCII Deepfake Law

    Indiana · Effective July 1, 2024 · 2024 Ind. Acts (HEA 1047); I.C. 35-45-4-8

    Indiana criminalized creating and sharing AI-generated or digitally modified intimate images without consent, expanding its revenge-porn statute. Distribution is a Class A misdemeanor; repeat or aggravated conduct is a Level 6 felony (up to 30 months, $5,000).

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Federal AI rules that apply in Portage, Indiana

These federal rules apply everywhere in the United States, including Portage, Indiana. Showing the 10 strongest and most recent.

  1. In effect Strength: stronger

    TVA data center capacity commitment charge (2026)

    Tennessee Valley Authority · Effective October 1, 2026 · Tenn. Valley Auth. Bd. of Dirs. — Data Center Capacity Commitment Charge (approved Aug. 20, 2026; eff. Oct. 1, 2026)

    The Tennessee Valley Authority's Board of Directors approved a separate, higher wholesale rate for data centers on August 20, 2026, effective October 1. New or expanding data center loads above 5 megawatts now fall under a Capacity Commitment Charge attached to TVA's data center rate schedules, designed to recover the incremental capacity costs those customers impose on the system. The headline figures are substantial: upfront capacity commitment charges of roughly $1.5 million per megawatt, payable over three to five years, and an all-in average billing increase for data center customers of about 10%, phased in across three consecutive fiscal years. The stated purpose is to keep residential rates low while still serving growing data center demand. TVA matters here out of proportion to a single utility. It is a federal corporate agency supplying power across seven states, so this is not a state rate case but a regional cost-allocation decision reaching a large share of the Southeast — and TVA is among the first large US utilities to adopt a tariff aimed specifically at AI-driven load. Where most 2026 measures in this dataset restrict where data centers may be built, this one changes what they pay to run.

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  2. In effect Strength: stronger

    Bartz v. Anthropic

    N.D. Cal. · Effective September 5, 2025 · Bartz v. Anthropic PBC, No. 3:24-cv-05417 (N.D. Cal.)

    Authors Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson sued Anthropic over its use of pirated-book datasets to train Claude. In June 2025 Judge William Alsup ruled that training on lawfully purchased books was fair use. The piracy claims (LibGen ingestion) proceeded toward settlement; in September 2025 Anthropic agreed to a $1.5 billion class settlement covering ~500,000 works. Judge Alsup granted preliminary approval September 25, 2025 and final approval July 20, 2026. The appeal period runs through August 19, 2026; class members will not receive payments until at least end of 2026.

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  3. In effect Strength: stronger

    COPPA + 2025 Rule (childrens data)

    United States · Effective June 23, 2025 · 15 U.S.C. §§ 6501–6506; 16 C.F.R. Part 312

    COPPA requires online services aimed at children under 13 to get verifiable parental consent before collecting kids' personal data. The 2025 rule update — fully in effect since April 22, 2026 — adds biometric identifiers (like face templates and voiceprints, which matter for AI tools), requires separate parental consent before sharing children's data for targeted advertising, and tightens data retention limits.

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  4. In effect Strength: stronger

    TAKE IT DOWN Act

    United States · Effective May 19, 2025 · Pub. L. No. 119-12 (S. 146)

    Makes it a federal crime to knowingly publish intimate images of someone without consent, including AI-generated deepfakes. Social media and similar platforms must give victims a way to request removal and must take the content (and known copies) down within 48 hours. The platform removal requirement became enforceable May 19, 2026, and the FTC has already begun enforcement.

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  5. Blocked / in litigation

    NetChoice v. Yost (Ohio)

    S.D. Ohio · Effective April 16, 2025 · NetChoice, LLC v. Yost, No. 2:24-cv-00047 (S.D. Ohio Apr. 16, 2025)

    Ohio's Social Media Parental Notification Act — requiring parental consent for minors' social-media use, including algorithmic feeds — was preliminarily enjoined on February 12, 2024, then permanently enjoined on April 16, 2025 when the district court granted summary judgment for NetChoice. The state appealed to the Sixth Circuit, which vacated the district court's injunction in 2026.

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  6. In effect Strength: stronger

    Thaler v. Perlmutter (Copyright)

    D.C. Cir. · Effective March 18, 2025 · Thaler v. Perlmutter, 130 F.4th 1039 (D.C. Cir. 2025)

    The companion copyright case: Stephen Thaler sought to register a copyright with 'Creativity Machine' (his AI) as the author. The D.C. Circuit affirmed in March 2025 that the Copyright Act's human-authorship requirement is dispositive as a matter of statutory law. AI cannot be a copyright author under U.S. law.

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  7. In effect Strength: stronger

    Louis v. SafeRent

    D. Mass. · Effective November 20, 2024 · Louis v. SafeRent Solutions, LLC, No. 1:22-cv-10800 (D. Mass.)

    SafeRent agreed in November 2024 to a $2.275M settlement and a five-year ban on using its 'SafeRent Score' for housing-voucher applicants, after a class action alleged its AI tenant-screening tool systematically denied housing to Black and Hispanic Section 8 voucher holders. The first major AI tenant-screening Fair Housing Act settlement.

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  8. In effect Strength: stronger

    FTC Impersonation Rule (AI)

    United States · Effective April 1, 2024 · 16 C.F.R. Part 461; 89 Fed. Reg. 15017

    The FTC's Impersonation Rule lets the agency directly sue scammers who pretend to be a government agency or a real business — including those who use AI-cloned voices or generated images to do so. Civil penalties can reach $53,088 per violation. The FTC also issued a supplemental notice in February 2024 proposing to extend the rule to all individual impersonation.

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  9. In effect Strength: stronger

    FTC v. Rite Aid

    FTC · Effective February 26, 2024 · FTC v. Rite Aid Corp., No. 2:23-cv-05023 (E.D. Pa. Dec. 19, 2023)

    The FTC banned Rite Aid from using facial-recognition technology in its stores for five years after finding the pharmacy chain's FRT system falsely tagged customers — disproportionately women and people of color — as shoplifters, leading to wrongful detentions and humiliations.

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  10. In effect Strength: stronger

    TCPA (AI voice calls)

    United States · Effective February 8, 2024 · 47 U.S.C. § 227; FCC 24-17

    Robocalls using AI-cloned or AI-generated voices are treated like other 'artificial voice' calls: callers need your prior express consent, must identify themselves, and must offer opt-outs for telemarketing. You can personally sue violators for $500 to $1,500 per illegal call.

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Frequently asked questions about AI laws in Portage, Indiana

Are there AI laws in Portage, Indiana?
Yes. We index 1 local AI rule that specifically apply in Portage, Indiana, including Portage IN Technology Campus district data center rules (2026). On top of that, 7 Indiana state-level rules and 10+ federal AI rules apply throughout the city.
What federal AI rules apply in Portage?
Every federal AI rule in our index applies in Portage, Indiana. The highest-strength federal rules currently include TVA data center capacity commitment charge (2026), Bartz v. Anthropic, COPPA + 2025 Rule (childrens data). 10+ federal entries are tracked in total.
Does Indiana have an AI privacy law?
Indiana has 3 privacy- or automated-decision-related AI rules in our index, including Indiana Consumer Data Protection Act and Indiana HB 1271 (no AI-only claim downcoding). These apply to residents of Portage.
Are deepfakes illegal in Indiana?
Indiana has 1 deepfake- or AI-image-related law in our index, including IN NCII Deepfake Law. Additionally, the federal TAKE IT DOWN Act covers non-consensual intimate-image deepfakes nationwide.
Can my employer use AI to screen me for jobs in Portage?
Portage, Indiana has no AI-employment-screening-specific rule in our index. Federal Title VII, ADA, and EEOC guidance still apply, plus any general Indiana anti-discrimination statutes.
How do I report an AI law violation in Portage?
Most AI rules are enforced by an agency listed on each individual entry. For Indiana state laws, the Indiana Attorney General's office is the usual starting point. For federal AI rules, file complaints with the relevant federal agency (FTC, EEOC, HUD, CFPB, etc.) named on each entry. We also accept tips at feedback@ailawsusa.com.
Are facial recognition cameras allowed in Portage?
Portage, Indiana has no facial-recognition-specific rule in our index. Use by private businesses is largely unregulated, while government use is governed by general Fourth Amendment and Indiana law.
Is Portage regulated by Indiana's consumer privacy act?
Yes. Indiana state laws apply uniformly to residents and businesses operating in Portage. See the Indiana jurisdiction page for the complete list of consumer-protection and privacy rules.

Have we missed an AI rule in Portage?

This page is generated from our open civic dataset. If you know of a Portage ordinance, county rule, or local enforcement action we should add, email feedback@ailawsusa.com or submit a correction. Every entry must include a verifiable source.