Amazon · New Carlisle, Indiana

Anthropic-Amazon New Carlisle

1.2GW

The power of 1.0 million US homes.

Drawing power since Jun 2025. Projected to reach 2.3 GW by Mar 2028.

Capital cost
$39.3B
Chips
Trainium2
Users
Anthropic
Project
Project Rainier
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Power over time

facility power · 12 milestones
Every milestone
  1. 9 Feb 2024 — Land clearing begins in the northern section
  2. 10 Jun 2024 — Land clearing begins in the southern section
  3. 10 May 2025 — Roof complete on building 11
  4. 23 Jun 2025 478 MW Buildings 1-7 are operational. Based on all of the roofs being completed for over 5 months.
  5. 26 Sep 2025 478 MW Roof complete on building 16. Generators are being installed for buildings 8-15. In the north, Building 17 and 18 are under construction. To the south of buildings 8-16, a concrete pad is visible, and an expanded car park next to it.
  6. 17 Oct 2025 478 MW Confirmation that nearly 500,000 chips are operational, which fits buildings 1-7. In an interview, AWS CEO says "they're already running...about 500,000 [Trainium2] chips in Indiana today".
  7. 23 Dec 2025 751 MW Buildings 8-11 are operational, given it's been over 7 months since their roofs were complete, and the backup generators and roof chimneys look complete. The roof is almost complete for Building 17 and 18.
  8. 9 Feb 2026 751 MW Buildings 12-16 still have a few generators that look incomplete, so they are unlikely to be operational just yet. Buildings 17-18 still have ongoing roof work, no generators. Just south of Buildings 9-16, the outlines of a site for Buildings 19-32 are taking shape.
  9. 23 Mar 2026 1.1 GW Buildings 12-16 are operational. Based on how long previous buildings took, when they were in a similar state to Buildings 12-16 in December.
  10. 3 Jun 2026 1.1 GW Buildings 17-18 fully roofed but still having surrounding generators/cooling under construction. Cleared land for buildings 19-32 is still bare, with no building foundations visible yet. Based on satellite imagery.
  11. 19 Oct 2026 1.2 GW Buildings 17-18 are operational. This is an estimate based on a rule of thumb of "operational 5 months after roof is complete", assuming the roofs took one more month after 2025-12-23. Also added four more months to account for commissioning and adjacent cooling units not being complete yet.
  12. 17 Mar 2028 · projected 2.3 GW Buildings 19-32 are operational. This is an estimate based on how long Buildings 1-16 took to become operational. In May 2026, the foundation of several buildings and a substation was visible at the site of Buildings 19-32. Buildings 1-16 took 1 year and 10 months to go from a similar state to operational. So we add 1 year and 10 months to May 2026 to get this date estimate. The power capacity is based on an air quality permit filed in May 2026, and the compute capacity is based on Trainium3 chips.

Every step Epoch planned here on 2 Sep 2026 is still on plan. Planned against reached

Gas leads on both grids that serve St. Joseph County

net generation by fuel · Oct 2025 to Sep 2026

PJM Interconnection, LLC PJM · balancing authority

  1. Gas 41%
  2. Coal 17%
  3. Nuclear 31%
  4. Wind 4%
  5. Solar 3%
  6. Hydro 2%
  7. Other 3%

Midcontinent Independent Transmission System Operator, Inc. MISO · balancing authority

  1. Gas 37%
  2. Coal 26%
  3. Nuclear 14%
  4. Wind 15%
  5. Solar 6%
  6. Hydro 1%
  7. Other 1%

The utilities that serve St. Joseph County, IN, report to 2 grids; the data does not show which one feeds the site. Each grid is a balancing authority. Generation only; imports are excluded. Every grid behind an AI site.

No new plant is planned in St. Joseph County

power plants in St. Joseph County · EIA-860M, September 2026

In service in St. Joseph County today: 1.0 GW. Since January 2023: 150 MW added, 0 MW retired. A plant in the same county does not mean it feeds the site. Power plants near every AI site.

Sources

selected by Epoch AI
  1. Air Construction Permit application for the northern portion
  2. Backup diesel generator referenced in the permit
  3. Announcement of Project Rainier coming online
  4. Air permit for Buildings 19-32, suggesting expansion to 2.3 GW total facility power

Data: Epoch AI, “AI data centers”, CC BY 4.0, retrieved 22 Oct 2026. Facility power adds cooling and other overhead to the IT power the servers draw. Placed at the centre of New Carlisle. Grid: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Hourly Electric Grid Monitor (Form EIA-930), public domain, retrieved 16 Oct 2026; utilities by county from Form EIA-861 and the U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder, public domain. Power plants: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-860M, public domain, inventory as of September 2026. All sources.