Amazon plans to invest $15 billion in Northern Indiana to build new data center campuses and advance AI innovation
Planned investment will create 1,100 jobs and support new workforce development training programs and local community projects.
Key takeaways
- Amazon plans to invest an additional $15 billion in Northern Indiana to build data center campuses, creating 1,100 new high-skilled jobs and supporting thousands more in the data center supply chain.
- The new project will add 2.4 gigawatts of data center capacity in the region.
- Energy agreement with NIPSCO will improve local citizen services and is expected to provide approximately $1 billion in cost savings to current Indiana residents and businesses over 15 years.
- Since 2010, Amazon has invested more than $31.3 billion in Indiana, contributing more than $29.9 billion to the state’s GDP and supporting 24,500 full and part-time jobs, plus 27,500 indirect jobs, across various facilities.
- Amazon will bring training and education programs, including data center technician programs, fiber optic fusion splicing workshops, and STEM awareness and learning opportunities for K-12 schools, to local communities.
Today, Amazon announced plans to invest an estimated $15 billion in Northern Indiana to build new data center campuses to support artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing technologies. Generative AI is driving increased demand for advanced cloud infrastructure and compute power, and Amazon’s investment will support the future of AI innovation from new data center campuses in the Hoosier State. This investment is additional to the $11 billion investment announced last year in St. Joseph County and will expand our infrastructure to new sites across Indiana.
This new project, which will add 2.4 gigawatts of data center capacity in the region, builds on AWS’s strong track record of innovation, scale, and engineering excellence—bringing the same advanced infrastructure that powers Project Rainier, the world’s largest AI supercomputer. By designing our own chips, servers, and network architecture, AWS delivers unmatched performance, security, reliability, and efficiency for customers running the world’s most demanding compute workloads. These facilities are purpose-built for scale—optimized for AI, machine learning, and next-generation cloud applications—while maintaining industry-leading standards in energy efficiency and sustainability. Together, our existing and future data center campuses represent the next step in our mission to provide the most advanced, secure, and sustainable cloud infrastructure anywhere in the world.
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