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Amazon Project Rainier Data Center (New Carlisle)

Amazon Project Rainier Data Center is an AI data center campus developed by Amazon in Indiana, New Carlisle. 2.20 GW of capacity has been announced; 0.91 GW is energized. The gap is what this page tracks: what is claimed versus what is actually built, each figure dated and sourced.

Partially energized · Amazon · Private land · PJM · New Carlisle, Indiana, United States

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Capacity: announced vs energized

Contracted
not recorded

Announced-to-energized gap: 1.29 GW. Every figure below is a single dated, sourced claim. Current best per series resolves by evidence tier, then date. See the methodology.

12th-largest announced of 97 tracked campuses2nd by energized capacity77th percentile announced-to-energized gap≈ 1,782,000 homes of power at full announced capacity (basis)

Promised online: 2025. Energized capacity is now on record. Claimed by Amazon / AWS (source).

Amazon Project Rainier Data Center (New Carlisle) capacity claims
Source
Announced2.20 GW2025-10-29claimedjournalist report
Energized0.91 GW2026-03-23reportedjournalist report
Under construction1.93 GW2028-01-01claimedjournalist report

Construction evidence

Dated satellite imagery of the site itself, oldest to newest, with the campus milestones that landed in each window. This is what the site looked like from orbit while announcements, permits, and energizations were dated into our ledger, so bare land, grading, and building mass tell their own story alongside the paper trail. Sentinel-2 true color, 10 m resolution, cloud-free scenes; click any frame to expand it.

Delivery paceAnnounced Q4 2025 · live Q1 2026 · 5 mo build

2018-07-07Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2018
2020-06-06Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2020
2022-06-16Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2022
2024-05-19Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024
2025-09-15Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2025

Dated Sentinel-2 imagery, gated to hand-verified site coordinates. Milestones synthesized from the campus's own capacity ledger, financial claims, and lifecycle events; each chip links to its source. How we source and verify it: satellite construction evidence.

Per-building manifest tied to the site polygons and imagery. When we know a building's outline we render it; when we know only its year and capacity we still surface those as first-class rows so the campus total is auditable, not a headline claim. Sorted largest-first; top 6 shown by default of 12.

Building 16
Building sqft: 1,209,853
polygon on record (9 vertices)
Building 3
Building sqft: 413,911
polygon on record (64 vertices)
Building 8
Building sqft: 256,288
polygon on record (9 vertices)
DC Building 11
Building sqft: 210,664
polygon on record (9 vertices)
DC Building 12
Building sqft: 210,654
polygon on record (9 vertices)
DC Building 15
Building sqft: 210,645
polygon on record (9 vertices)

Manifest totals: 3,515,749 sqft. Rolled from the per-building rows above.

Key facts

partially energized

Lifecycle

2.20 GW

Announced

0.91 GW

Energized

Amazon

Developer

United States

Location

PJM

Grid

private land

Land

1.29 GW

Announced-to-energized gap

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The story of Amazon Project Rainier Data Center (New Carlisle)
Announced capex
$11B
Grid
PJM · Grid connected, utility build in progress: AEP is building two new 345 kV delivery substations, Larrison Drive and New Prairie, plus fault-duty upgrades at the existing Olive station, a transmission package of about $185 million targeting roughly 1.1 GW of service by December 2026. Indiana Michigan Power holds a separate authorisation of about $68 million for its own New Carlisle 345 kV station. Full build-out is planned at 2.2 GW.
GPUs
500K 500,000 Trainium2
Tenant
Anthropic
AI here
Claude (Anthropic)
Derived
Cost per MW
$5M/MW

Every figure is one row in the ledger below with its source. Derived rows are pure arithmetic on the rows above (not new claims). Absent lines mean the fact isn't on record yet.

In clusterIndiana(86)

The deal

utility
Indiana Michigan Power (AEP) · Grid supply and high-voltage interconnection.
grid operator
PJM · I&M operates within PJM Interconnection.
tenant
Anthropic · Primary tenant; trains and serves Claude models on the cluster.
developer
Amazon · Owner-operator of the ~1,200-acre New Carlisle campus.
chip supplier
Amazon · Amazon's in-house AI accelerators; ~500k Trainium2 chips deployed.
investor
Amazon · Strategic investor in Anthropic in addition to infrastructure provider.

Power

Power source
grid
Grid operator
PJM
Interconnection
Grid connected, utility build in progress: AEP is building two new 345 kV delivery substations, Larrison Drive and New Prairie, plus fault-duty upgrades at the existing Olive station, a transmission package of about $185 million targeting roughly 1.1 GW of service by December 2026. Indiana Michigan Power holds a separate authorisation of about $68 million for its own New Carlisle 345 kV station. Full build-out is planned at 2.2 GW.
Water
Uses free-air cooling about 90% of the year, switching to evaporative (water) cooling only when ambient temperature exceeds ~85F; cooling water is drawn from the New Carlisle aquifer, with Phase 1 permitted at ~1.6M gal/day and Amazon stating water is used in under 2% of hours annually.

Indiana Michigan Power (AEP) grid supply, 2.20 GW grid ppa, Under construction. I&M (AEP subsidiary) partnered with AWS to deliver high-voltage infrastructure; grid-supplied within PJM.

The PJM grid demand right now: 80.3 GW (EIA-930, 2026-09-27 16:00). Amazon Project Rainier Data Center's announced 2.20 GW would be 2.7% of the grid's current load.

County water status: No drought in Saint Joseph County, week of 2026-09-22 (US Drought Monitor). Data centers are large water users for cooling; this is the neutral local water picture.

Silicon on site

Every AI chip publicly attributed to Amazon Project Rainier Data Center (New Carlisle) on the DEPLOY registry. Quantity hints are unstructured because underlying disclosures vary by an order of magnitude. Source links per row.

  1. as of 2024-12-03

    Anthropic's compute (Project Rainier): hundreds of thousands of Trainium 2 chips

    reported

    Amazon

Why here

Amazon Project Rainier Data Center sits on private land in Indiana, New Carlisle. It connects to the PJM grid, draws on grid power, interconnection is Grid connected, utility build in progress: AEP is building two new 345 kV delivery substations, Larrison Drive and New Prairie, plus fault-duty upgrades at the existing Olive station, a transmission package of about $185 million targeting roughly 1.1 GW of service by December 2026. Indiana Michigan Power holds a separate authorisation of about $68 million for its own New Carlisle 345 kV station. Full build-out is planned at 2.2 GW.. This siting summary is composed from the record's held fields, not speculation; see methodology.

Financial structure

AEP transmission package serving the campus
$185M. Two new 345 kV delivery substations (Larrison Drive, New Prairie) plus fault-duty upgrades at Olive, targeting about 1.1 GW of service by December 2026. Indiana Michigan Power holds a separate ~$68m authorisation for its own New Carlisle 345 kV station. journalist report
Amazon Project Rainier investment (announced)
$11B. Announced at Oct 2025 opening; Epoch estimates ~$34.5B deployed to date, ~$72.9B at full buildout. journalist report
Anthropic 10-year compute commitment
$100B. Anthropic to spend >$100B on compute over 10 years and reserve up to 5 GW of Trainium capacity. journalist report

Regulatory paper trail

The filings and rules on record for this site and its jurisdiction, most recent first. Each is a sourced, dated artifact you can follow to the primary document.

NHTSA Recall: Zoox Robotaxi Software Update for Heavy Smoke Visibility (26E044)operational restriction · 2026-07-15 · United States
FCC Proposed Fines Against Drone Companies (July 2026)other · 2026-07-10 · United States
FAA Proposed Rule: Enabling Supersonic Overland Flight (July 2026)operational restriction · 2026-07-02 · United States

Investment, workforce and specs

GPUs
500,000 Trainium2 source

Estimated compute: the claimed 500,000 Trainium2 chips are on the order of 40x the compute used to train a GPT-4-class model. Derived from the chip-count claim, not measured (basis).

AI models here

  • Claude (Anthropic)trained and served source

Reported model-to-campus links, first-party sourced. Companies rarely disclose where a model trains, so this is sparse by nature.

Timeline

  2. Aug 2026
    financial recorded
    transmission_build: AEP transmission package serving the campus
  3. Sep 2026
    Current: Partially energized

Sources

49044b3a-b534-4134-b8b4-461e0eb98bf2 · Tracked with DEPLOY's verified-vs-claimed methodology. Every term is defined in the glossary. Announced numbers are claims, not built capacity.

Head-to-head

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Common questions

What is Amazon Project Rainier Data Center (New Carlisle)?
Amazon Project Rainier Data Center (New Carlisle) is an AI data center campus tracked on the DEPLOY registry, located in New Carlisle. DEPLOY records its capacity as a dated, sourced ledger: announced gigawatts versus actually energized gigawatts, never a press-release total.
How much power will Amazon Project Rainier Data Center (New Carlisle) use?
Amazon Project Rainier Data Center (New Carlisle) has 2.20 GW of announced capacity on the DEPLOY registry, of which 0.91 GW is recorded as energized, an announced-to-energized gap of 1.29 GW. Each figure is individually dated and sourced.
Who is building Amazon Project Rainier Data Center (New Carlisle)?
Amazon is recorded as a party to Amazon Project Rainier Data Center (New Carlisle) on the DEPLOY registry. The full party list, with each role, is on the record.
Is Amazon Project Rainier Data Center (New Carlisle) operating yet?
As of the most recent verification on the DEPLOY registry, Amazon Project Rainier Data Center (New Carlisle) is partially energized. DEPLOY tracks the lifecycle from announced through energized, so the current state reflects sourced evidence, not the original announcement.
How verified is the data on Amazon Project Rainier Data Center (New Carlisle)?
A human editor has reviewed this record for the indexed registry. Every capacity figure is an append-only, dated claim resolved to the highest-evidence tier; superseded claims are kept but excluded from the current view.

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DEPLOY. (2026). Amazon Project Rainier Data Center (New Carlisle): AI data center campus record. Retrieved September 27, 2026, from https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/amazon-project-rainier-indiana

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