Amazon Project Rainier
Amazon Web Services · New Carlisle, IN · United States
Facility record
- Lifecycle
- OperationalSource-reported lifecycle
- Location precision
- approximate
- Address as listed
- Not published
- Coordinates
- 41.6978, -86.5117
- Serving utility, source-reported
- Indiana Michigan Power (AEP)
- Operational capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Planned capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-28
Source-reported capacity; not metered consumption. Review underlying documents and notes. Planned capacity may include future phases and is not added to operational capacity here. The source may use facility, grid-feed or IT capacity definitions; consult the linked documents.
Coordinate precision is a source label, not an independent parcel survey. A marker does not confirm utility territory or establish an effect on residential bills.
Reported lifecycle history
- Proposed
Gov. Holcomb announced $11B AWS data center campus; 1,200-acre site
Underlying source - Under construction
Construction began; seven of 32 planned buildings completed within 7 months
Underlying source - Operational
Phase 1 online with ~500,000 Trainium2 chips; primary compute for Anthropic's Claude models; 18 buildings operational
Underlying source
Source notes
No operational capacity is recorded because neither Amazon nor the utility has stated one. Measured AI estimated the first nine buildings at "an estimated 590 MW of IT capacity" (June 2026), and Epoch AI estimates 910 MW of IT power from satellite imagery (updated July 2026); both are outside estimates. No planned capacity is recorded either: the 2,200 MW is the full-site electricity draw reported at the October 2025 opening ("30 buildings drawing up to 2.2 gigawatts (GW) of electricity", Converge Digest), an upper limit on grid draw, not IT load; Measured AI later gives 32 buildings and 2.25 GW of grid draw at full build-out.
Served by Indiana Michigan Power, an AEP subsidiary. Amazon states it matches consumption with 100% renewable energy; local grid mix is largely nuclear and coal. AEP is acquiring a natural gas plant in Ohio to help serve the load via the grid.
Sources and provenance
- Amazon opens $11B AI data center Project Rainier in Indiana — CNBC · source retrieved 2026-08-05
- Gov. Holcomb announces AWS plans to invest $11B in Northern Indiana — IEDC · source retrieved 2026-07-05
- Incentives approved for Amazon data center project · source retrieved 2026-07-06
- St. Joseph County leaders approve $11bn Amazon data center · source retrieved 2026-07-06
- AWS New Carlisle Data Center Campus: Project Rainier · source retrieved 2026-08-16
- IDEM halts some work over Amazon's unauthorized wetland impacts · source retrieved 2026-07-06
- Amazon's 'Project Rainier' starts operations in New Carlisle · source retrieved 2026-08-05
- AWS Activates Project Rainier Data Center Campus · source retrieved 2026-10-16
- Anthropic-Amazon New Carlisle | AI data centers · source retrieved 2026-10-16
Power Wars capture: 2026-11-02. Compute Atlas, CC BY 4.0. Entries are not independently verified by Power Wars unless stated.