LEAP Hosts Microsoft Meeting 2024

On the sunny evening of June 3, the City of La Porte Common Council assembled in the council chambers of La Porte City Hall for a truly monumental session. Bert Cook, executive director of the La Porte Economic Advancement Partnership (LEAP), brought before the council a resolution that will facilitate Microsoft’s construction of a $1 billion data center campus in La Porte. A data center stores servers and powerful computers that support a wide range of web services and applications. Representatives from LEAP and Microsoft were in attendance, and community members filled the council chambers to capacity. Cook views this partnership with Microsoft to be the most recent in a series of successes for La Porte.