AWS Project Rainier (New Carlisle)
AI data center in New Carlisle, Indiana, operated by Amazon Web Services.
Amazon's Project Rainier campus in St. Joseph County, Indiana, built for Anthropic on AWS Trainium2 chips. Amazon says Rainier spans multiple US data centers with nearly half a million Trainium2 chips.
Power: what each source says
Epoch AI estimates 1,037 MW IT / 1,244 MW facility as of 2026-10-19 (largest current IT power in its dataset) and ~2.3 GW facility after buildings 19-32, based on air permits (estimate). Amazon has not published a MW figure.
Figures labelled Epoch AI are estimates from satellite imagery, permits and filings. Company figures come from the operator, owner or its filings. IT power is what the servers draw; in Epoch AI’s figures for these campuses it runs about 15–35% below total facility power.
Tenants
Anthropic
Campus facts
- Operator
- Amazon Web Services 1
- Owner / developer
- Amazon 1
- City
- New Carlisle 1
- State / region
- Indiana 1
- Country
- United States 1
- First power
- 2025 1
- Chips
- AWS Trainium2 ('nearly half a million' across Project Rainier, Amazon) 1
- GPUs / accelerators
- Not published
- Cooling
- Not published
- Power source
- grid with diesel backup 1
- Coordinates
- 41.70° N, 86.51° W (town level)
- Verified
Sources
- Amazon: AWS activates Project Rainier accessed 2026-11-09
- New York Times: Amazon's AI data centers (2025-06-24) accessed 2026-11-09
- Epoch AI, AI data centers dataset (CC-BY 4.0, updated 2026-11-06) (licence: CC BY 4.0) accessed 2026-11-09