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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Amazon Project Rainier.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Amazon Web Services
- Address and locality
- New Carlisle · St. Joseph County · Indiana
- Official metro area
- South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI
- Source-reported status
- operational
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Operational: 590 MW; Planned: 2,200 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
- Source freshness
- 16 August 2026
- Location precision
- exact (provider label)
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- confirmed (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000068
Reported details
Source-reported by Compute Atlas; not independently verified by DataCenterData. Provider wording is kept; long provider notes are shortened and marked …; unknown is not zero; none of these values is totaled, ranked or compared.
- Electric utility
- Indiana Michigan Power (AEP)
- Power source
- Grid
- Cooling
- Air
- Land area
- 1,200 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Announced investment
- $11 billion
- Announced jobs
- 400 permanent · 600 construction
- Community response
- Provider label: contested
- AI-use label (provider)
- confirmed
- Announced
- 25 April 2024
Incentives reported by the source
Whether each incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.
- 10-year 50% real property tax abatement (three parcels) · St. Joseph County, Indiana · 2024 Open cited source →
- 85% personal property tax exemption on computing equipment (35-year term) · St. Joseph County, Indiana · 2024 Open cited source →
Provider notes
Energy. 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.
Water. Outside-air (free) cooling for roughly 98% of operating hours, running essentially chiller-free. 1.58 MGD is the Phase 1 permitted cooling-water discharge cap (average discharge ~0.8 MGD). Full-campus water use is not publicly disclosed by AWS; residents have raised aquifer-withdrawal concerns.
Community. IDEM cited Amazon and its contractor for unauthorized wetland impacts and halted work in affected areas pending Section 401 water-quality recertification; a April 2025 public hearing drew 100+ residents opposing a pending wetland-fill permit near Bendix Woods County Park, with concerns over aquifer depletion and utility rates. Amazon separately committed a ~$143M community enhancement agreement to St. Joseph County.
These reviews flag conflicting scope, inconsistent source text or support that has not been established. A withheld value may appear in the explanation, but is not displayed as an established field. The upstream row remains attributed under Sources.
- Reported water use: The source note identifies 1.58 million gallons per day as the Phase 1 permitted cooling-water discharge cap, not water use, and says full-campus water use is not publicly disclosed.
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
- 2024-04-25 · source-reported proposed
Gov. Holcomb announced $11B AWS data center campus; 1,200-acre site
- 2024-09 · source-reported under construction
Construction began; seven of 32 planned buildings completed within 7 months
- 2025-10 · source-reported operational
Phase 1 online with ~500,000 Trainium2 chips; primary compute for Anthropic's Claude models; 18 buildings operational
Sources and attribution
These sources are listed for the whole row. Unless a figure links to its own source, the provider does not mark which one gave it, so a figure may not appear in every source.
- Amazon opens $11B AI data center Project Rainier in Indiana — CNBC · CNBC
- Gov. Holcomb announces AWS plans to invest $11B in Northern Indiana — IEDC · Indiana Economic Development Corporation
- Incentives approved for Amazon data center project · Inside INdiana Business
- St. Joseph County leaders approve $11bn Amazon data center · Data Center Dynamics
- AWS New Carlisle Data Center Campus: Project Rainier · Measured AI
- IDEM halts some work over Amazon's unauthorized wetland impacts · WSBT
- Amazon's 'Project Rainier' starts operations in New Carlisle · WSBT
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID amazon-project-rainier-new-carlisle-in. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added. Some locations in this layer are reported by the provider as derived from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) and Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0).
Compute Atlas 1.34.1 with retained prior rows and publication holds. This is a DataCenterData composite, not an unmodified publisher edition. This row uses the captured source from 1.34.1, source as of 2026-10-14T20:40:52.293Z.
This row describes the same facility or project as AWS — New Carlisle. These records refer to the AWS data center campus at New Carlisle in St. Joseph County, Indiana. No engineering value, current operating status, capacity total or certification is transferred between layers. Project Rainier spans several sites, so this row is not the whole of Project Rainier. Completion of the New Carlisle buildout is not established.
The licensed row remains a separate discovery record with its own source-reported values.
Recorded information
What this page records, grouped by topic, with the source's units and qualifications. Company-reported values stay labeled as company-reported. Related listings are shown separately.
Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-000068
Licensed directory row.
Provider notes and the source narrative are printed on this page and are not repeated here.
Identity and relationships
- Provider facility type: data center
Provider facility type.
- AI-use label (provider): confirmed
Compute Atlas classification, not a DataCenterData finding.
Location and precision
- New Carlisle, IN · St. Joseph (Exact location)
Roles
- Operator: Amazon Web Services
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported operational
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Announced: 25 April 2024
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2024-04-25 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2024-09 · source-reported under construction
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2025-10 · source-reported operational
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 1,200 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Operational: 590 MW; Planned: 2,200 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
- Electric utility: Indiana Michigan Power (AEP)
Utility as named by the provider.
- Power source: Grid
Provider label.
Cooling, water, PUE and WUE
- Cooling: Air
Provider label.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Announced investment: $11 billion
Announced figure; whether it covers one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Announced jobs: 400 permanent · 600 construction
Announced figures; whether they cover one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Community response: Provider label: contested
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
- Incentive reported by the source: 10-year 50% real property tax abatement (three parcels) · St. Joseph County, Indiana · 2024
Whether the incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.
- Incentive reported by the source: 85% personal property tax exemption on computing equipment (35-year term) · St. Joseph County, Indiana · 2024
Whether the incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-08-16
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: Connectivity · Services · Certifications and design ratings · Rack density · Availability · Specification links and contact.
Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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