This is a source-attributed discovery row. It can help you find a place and its citations; it is not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is distinct or currently operating.
Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Amazon Web Services
- Address and locality
- New Carlisle · St. Joseph County · Indiana
- Lifecycle status
- reported operational
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Operational: 590 MW; Planned: 2,200 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 16 August 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000068
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 · reported proposed
Gov. Holcomb announced $11B AWS data center campus; 1,200-acre site
- 2024-09 · reported under construction
Construction began; seven of 32 planned buildings completed within 7 months
- 2025-10 · reported operational
Phase 1 online with ~500,000 Trainium2 chips; primary compute for Anthropic's Claude models; 18 buildings operational
Sources and attribution
- 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 1.33.0, 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.
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