Data Center Atlas
AWS New Carlisle data center campus (Project Rainier)
Partially operational
United States · 1 project · Last reported
Summary
Amazon Web Services campus in the Indiana Enterprise Center near New Carlisle, St. Joseph County, announced in April 2024 as an $11 billion build over roughly a decade. It is one of the sites of Project Rainier, the Trainium2 cluster Anthropic uses to build and deploy Claude, which AWS activated in October 2025. Amazon's utility filings describe a 2,250 MW load. In July 2026 AWS said it had invested $13.8 billion, with about 18 of a planned 30 or so buildings running and construction continuing.
Source record as of 2026-07-23 · Details and sources
Location
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Projects (1)
AWS New Carlisle data center campus (Project Rainier)
Partially operational last observed as of · Reported status
Location: New Carlisle, St. Joseph County, Indiana, US. Sources place the campus in the Indiana Enterprise Center near New Carlisle but give no parcel or address; coordinates are the New Carlisle town point from its Wikipedia article (Nominatim was unavailable). Indiana Economic Development Corporation; WSBT; WNDU
Use: Ai training, Ai inference, Cloud
Capacity, investment and other figures
| Measure | Value | Scope | As of | Notes | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Investment | 11,000,000,000 USD | Announced · Campus | 2024-04-25 | Original announced plan, described by the state as its largest capital investment announcement. | Indiana Economic Development Corporation |
| Investment | about 13,800,000,000 USD | Reported · Campus | 2026-07-23 | Amount an AWS director said had been invested by July 2026, above the original $11 billion goal, while construction continued. | WNDU |
| Power capacity | 2,250 MW | Planned · Campus · Unspecified | 2025-04-23 | Capacity stated in Amazon filings with the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission as reported by The Times; the filings also cite a possible 90% load factor. Whether this is IT or total load is not stated. | GovTech (The Times, Munster, via Tribune Content Agency) |
| Power capacity | up to 2,200 MW | Planned · Campus · Unspecified | 2025-10-29 | Trade press figure for the expected draw of the full site at build-out. | Converge Digest |
| Buildings | about 30 count | Planned · Campus | 2026-07-23 | Converge Digest; WNDU | |
| Buildings | 7 count | Operational · Campus | 2025-10-29 | Buildings complete and in use at the October 2025 activation. | Converge Digest |
| Buildings | about 18 count | Operational · Campus | 2026-07-23 | WNDU | |
| Land area | 1,200 acres | Reported · Campus | 2025-10-29 | Trade press figure; a June 2026 local TV report gives 800 acres. The sources do not explain the difference. | Converge Digest |
| Land area | 800 acres | Reported · Campus | 2026-06-03 | Conflicts with the 1,200-acre trade press figure. | WSBT |
| Jobs permanent | at least 1,000 count | Planned · Campus | 2024-04-25 | Indiana Economic Development Corporation | |
| Jobs permanent | more than 1,000 count | Reported · Campus | 2026-07-23 | People hired to date as of July 2026, per the South Bend chamber president. | WNDU |
| Jobs construction | up to 4,000 count | Reported · Campus | 2026-07-23 | Peak on-site construction workforce cited by the South Bend chamber president. | WNDU |
| Jobs construction | about 9,000 count | Reported · Campus | 2025-10-29 | Trade press total for construction jobs; not comparable to the peak on-site headcount. | Converge Digest |
Companies and organizations
| Name | Role | Notes | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Web Services | Developer | Indiana Economic Development Corporation; Converge Digest; WNDU | |
| Anthropic | Tenant | Amazon says Anthropic uses Project Rainier, which spans several US data centers including this one, to build and deploy Claude; trade press says the site's chips are dedicated to Anthropic's models. | Converge Digest; Amazon |
| Indiana Michigan Power | Utility | GovTech (The Times, Munster, via Tribune Content Agency); Converge Digest | |
| Indiana Economic Development Corporation | Government | Offered performance-based tax credits, training grants and a 50-year data center sales tax exemption. | Indiana Economic Development Corporation |
Timeline
| Date | Event | Actual or planned | Notes | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-04-25 | Announced | Actual | Indiana Economic Development Corporation | |
| 2024 | Construction started | Actual | Local TV said in July 2026 that construction had begun about two years earlier; no exact date given. | WNDU |
| 2025 | First operational | Actual | Trade press reported AWS's activation of Project Rainier on 29 October 2025, with seven buildings at this site complete and in use; Amazon called the cluster fully operational. Earlier partial use is not dated in the sources. | Converge Digest; Amazon |
| 2026-06-03 | Other | Actual | Campus administration building opened, housing workforce development programs. | WSBT |
Power supply
| Type | Description | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Grid | Served by Indiana Michigan Power, which expects new data center load to double its demand by 2030; a consumer group says the utility has proposed adding gas-fired generation. | GovTech (The Times, Munster, via Tribune Content Agency); Converge Digest |
Amazon describes Project Rainier as spread across several US data centers and names St. Joseph County as one of them, so the cluster-wide chip counts are not recorded here.
Sources for these details
- Gov. Holcomb announces Amazon Web Services plans to invest $11B to create a new data center campus in Northern Indiana — Indiana Economic Development Corporation; 2024-04-25 · Archived source
- Indiana data center could bring significant power use — GovTech (The Times, Munster, via Tribune Content Agency); 2025-04-23
- AWS activates Project Rainier data center campus — Converge Digest; 2025-10-29
- AWS activates Project Rainier: One of the world's largest AI compute clusters comes online — Amazon; publication date not stated
- First look at Amazon's New Carlisle data center's administration building, campus — WSBT; 2026-06-03
- Amazon Web Services investment in St. Joseph County data center campus surpasses $13.8 billion — WNDU; 2026-07-23
- Companies
- Developer: Amazon Web Services (unknown scope) evidence
- Developer: Amazon Web Services (unknown scope) evidence
- Developer: Amazon Web Services (unknown scope) evidence
- Tenant: Anthropic (unknown scope) evidence
- Tenant: Anthropic (unknown scope) evidence
- Utility: Indiana Michigan Power (unknown scope) evidence
- Utility: Indiana Michigan Power (unknown scope) evidence
- Government: Indiana Economic Development Corporation (unknown scope) evidence
Source and location review
- Status source
- Amazon Web Services investment in St. Joseph County data center campus surpasses $13.8 billion evidence row
WNDU · published 2026-07-23 · News - Locator
- Locality reference only · Compiled location reference · locality evidence
- Source checks
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No imagery review is recorded for this project. Its status rests only on the dated authoritative source. · no independent imagery verificationStatus age at review: 96 days before the data update on 2026-10-27
Location details
- Coordinates
- 41.70060, -86.49640
- Geometry licence
- source-terms-not-recorded
- Use scope
- Locality reference only
- Scope class
- locality
- Authority
- Compiled location reference
- Source entity
- Project
- Method
- imported_reference_point
- Derivation
- imported_reference_point
- Precision scope
- Sources place the campus in the Indiana Enterprise Center near New Carlisle but give no parcel or address; coordinates are the New Carlisle town point from its Wikipedia article (Nominatim was unavailable).
- Horizontal uncertainty
Not reported
The source record provides no measured horizontal uncertainty; original coordinate precision and note are preserved.
- Geometry evidence
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A locator places the site on the map. It is not a building footprint, a construction extent or a surveyed boundary unless the use scope is an official boundary, and even then it is a parcel or permit boundary.
Evidence
Sources are linked, not redistributed; each keeps its own terms. An archived copy is a lookup for the Wayback Machine capture nearest the retrieval date and may be unavailable or differ from what was reviewed. Each hash states what it covers; imported factual records are not publisher-page captures.
| Title | Publisher | Roles | Published | Retrieved | Licence | Attribution | Content hash (SHA-256) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Web Services investment in St. Joseph County data center campus surpasses $13.8 billion Archived copy | WNDU News | Imported: Geometry, Imported: Record, Imported: Status, Metric: Buildings, Metric: Investment, Metric: Jobs Construction, Metric: Jobs Permanent, Milestone: Construction Started, Role: Developer | source-terms-not-recorded | WNDU | 761334bfe591898a77663a0bbbc6f4b129a08739670e46808497f39049d48d4fFactual source record; not the publisher page | ||
| AWS activates Project Rainier data center campus Archived copy | Converge Digest Trade publication | Imported: Record, Metric: Buildings, Metric: Jobs Construction, Metric: Land Area, Metric: Power Capacity, Milestone: First Operational, Power Source: Grid, Role: Developer, Tenant claim, Role: Utility | source-terms-not-recorded | Converge Digest | 0c8dc33dd47c42a2093b09044878c5fc8adb2d26c161f1bf4757f3207bc49452Factual source record; not the publisher page | ||
| AWS activates Project Rainier: One of the world's largest AI compute clusters comes online Archived copy | Amazon Company disclosure | Imported: Record, Milestone: First Operational, Tenant claim | not stated | source-terms-not-recorded | Amazon | 6dfc4025754dec2e933270892e810378b0af7bf605af3e6329cfb920b0976849Factual source record; not the publisher page | |
| First look at Amazon's New Carlisle data center's administration building, campus Archived copy | WSBT News | Imported: Geometry, Imported: Record, Metric: Land Area, Milestone: Other | source-terms-not-recorded | WSBT | 078ef8289f07ca216869579fee20db6facdf1a42c555f3548b1635761c852f7bFactual source record; not the publisher page | ||
| Gov. Holcomb announces Amazon Web Services plans to invest $11B to create a new data center campus in Northern Indiana Archived copy | Indiana Economic Development Corporation Government record | Imported: Geometry, Imported: Record, Metric: Investment, Metric: Jobs Permanent, Milestone: Announced, Role: Developer, Role: Government | source-terms-not-recorded | Indiana Economic Development Corporation | 4f918c4ba1608e32013ddeac593c664cae040039eee9f7c81a806490c755e52fFactual source record; not the publisher page | ||
| Indiana data center could bring significant power use Archived copy | GovTech (The Times, Munster, via Tribune Content Agency) News | Imported: Record, Metric: Power Capacity, Power Source: Grid, Role: Utility | source-terms-not-recorded | GovTech (The Times, Munster, via Tribune Content Agency) | e1444556904bddca2dcf8407ae99dc7603a9a86ff3d338744742e1a03d0730a4Factual source record; not the publisher page |
Cite this site
Kyars, K. (2026). AWS New Carlisle data center campus (Project Rainier) [site vcc-site-6835cf832163c1403b4e]. In Data Center Atlas (2026-10-27) [Data set]. https://kiankyars.github.io/datacenter-atlas/sites/vcc-site-6835cf832163c1403b4e/
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