Project dossier · New Carlisle, Indiana

Anthropic-Amazon New Carlisle Operating

Part of Project Rainier. Chip types: Trainium2. Epoch AI estimates ~910 MW.

Key facts

Operator: Amazon
Owner: Amazon
Tenant: Anthropic
Size: 910 MW
Location: New Carlisle, Indiana
Stage today: Operating

Source
read 2026-08-14

What to do next

Next step: Already operating — the leverage now is enforcement: noise and water conditions, tax revenue tracking, and any expansion filing, which reopens the record.

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What has happened so far (16 events)

2023-11-09filing
St. Joseph County Redevelopment Commission approved Resolution 2023-16, a development facilitation agreement between the Commission, the Indiana Economic Development Corporation, and Razor5 LLC for pre-development activities on 640 acres in the New Carlisle Economic Development Area. · source
2024-02-17coverage
Local media reported construction activity already underway on the Razor5 site near New Carlisle, including an electrical substation pad on 45 acres near Edison Road and excavation on the northern parcel, before the developer's identity was publicly confirmed. · source
2024-02-20hearing
St. Joseph County Area Plan Commission voted 6-1 to give a favorable recommendation for rezoning over 800 acres at 31000 State Road 2 from agricultural to industrial classification for the Razor5 project, sparking complaints from New Carlisle residents. · source
2024-03-12vote
St. Joseph County Council voted 8-1 to rezone approximately 640 acres of agricultural land near New Carlisle to industrial use for the Razor5 LLC project, with Council Republican Joe Thomas casting the lone dissenting vote. · source
2024-04-11filing
Tax abatement proposal documents presented to the St. Joseph County Council revealed the Razor5 project would total $11 billion in investment across 640 acres and a secondary 280-acre parcel, projecting 400 full-time jobs at approximately $30 per hour. · source
2024-04-25announcement
Governor Eric Holcomb announced Amazon Web Services plans to invest $11 billion to build a data center campus near New Carlisle, the largest capital investment in Indiana history, with at least 1,000 jobs over 10 years; state incentives included up to $18.3 million in tax credits, $55 million in Hoosier Business Investment credits, and $7 million for State Road 2 improvements. · source
2024-05-28hearing
St. Joseph County Council committee voted a favorable recommendation on the Amazon data center tax abatement declaratory resolution, advancing it to the full county council for a public hearing scheduled for June 11. · source
2024-08-13incentive
St. Joseph County Council voted 7-2 to approve the Amazon data center incentive package: a 10-year 50% real property tax abatement on 870 acres, an 85% enterprise technology exemption on personal property for 35 years, and a community enhancement agreement valued at approximately $143 million. · source
2024-09-30construction
Amazon held a ceremonial groundbreaking for Project Rainier at Century Center in South Bend, attended by Governor Holcomb and AWS VP Kevin Miller; construction on the 870-acre site had already been underway for months prior to the ceremony. · source
2025-09-01ruling
In September 2025, the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission unanimously approved the creation of NIPSCO Generation LLC (GenCo), described as America's first data center-only utility subsidiary, to generate and sell electricity exclusively to hyperscale data centers including the Amazon New Carlisle campus. · source
2025-10-29operational
Amazon announced Project Rainier was operational in New Carlisle with seven data center buildings running approximately 500,000 Trainium2 chips dedicated to training Anthropic's Claude AI models, making it the largest known deployment of non-Nvidia compute in the world. · source
2025-11-24announcement
Amazon announced an additional $15 billion investment in new data center campuses across northern Indiana, bringing total committed investment to approximately $26 billion, with a NIPSCO energy deal projected to save existing ratepayers $1 billion over 15 years. · source
2025-11-25filing
NIPSCO filed plans to supply up to 3 GW to Amazon data centers in northern Indiana through GenCo, which will build two 1.3-GW gas-fired power plants and a 400-MW battery storage system, with power deliveries beginning January 1, 2027, and ramping to 2.4 GW by end of 2032. · source
2026-03-30coverage
Four Republican members of the St. Joseph County Council sent Amazon a letter asking it to renegotiate its 35-year property tax abatement, citing Microsoft's national policy of forgoing local tax breaks and the region's inherent advantages including one of the nation's richest aquifers. · source
2026-06-03coverage
Amazon granted local media the first look at the New Carlisle data center campus administration building and workforce development programs; the first work-based learning cohort of 58 local graduates had completed training in machine learning and data center operations. · source
2026-07-23construction
AWS announced its New Carlisle campus investment had reached $13.8 billion with 18 of approximately 30 planned buildings operational, over 1,000 employees hired (approximately 450 from St. Joseph County), and up to 4,000 construction workers on site during peak phases. · source

Find the paper trail

Find the paper trail (0 filed · 12 places to look)

State environmental permits

Backup generators, water withdrawal and stormwater are permitted by the state, usually earlier and in more detail than anything filed locally.

Indiana IDEM — Office of Air QualityThe program page: which permits this state requires, and the office that issues them.
IDEM Virtual File CabinetSearchable public filings — search the operator, the shell LLC on the deed, and the address.

County & town filings

The rezoning application, site plan, traffic and noise studies, staff report and every revision.

Search New Carlisle planning filingssearchPlanning departments post application files under many different names. Find the department, then ask the clerk for the application number — that number unlocks everything else.
Search New Carlisle property records / GISsearchThe parcel record names the buying LLC and the sale date, which is what ties an anonymous filing to an operator.

Utility & grid records

The electricity request is filed with the grid operator and the utility long before the town hears about it — and states the real load.

MISO (Midwest & Gulf) — interconnection queueRequested megawatts, queue position and target in-service date. The MW here is the real number; the one at the town meeting is often phase one.
PJM Interconnection (Mid-Atlantic, Ohio Valley) — interconnection queueRequested megawatts, queue position and target in-service date. The MW here is the real number; the one at the town meeting is often phase one.
Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission — docket searchSpecial contracts, large-load tariffs and rate cases are docketed here. Testimony and exhibits are public, and are usually more candid than the press release.
FERC eLibraryFederal filings: transmission agreements, interconnection service agreements, and co-location disputes.
Search the serving utility for a will-serve lettersearchThe will-serve or load-service letter is the utility's own written commitment. Ask the utility and the PUC for it by name — it is frequently the first document to exist.

Federal databases

Works anywhere, and covers the operator's record at its other sites.

EPA ECHO facility searchEvery federally-reported air, water and waste permit at a facility, plus its inspection and violation history. Search by address or draw a radius around the site. This project's locality centres on 41.700, -86.510 — search that point with a 5-mile radius.
EPA EnvirofactsThe same underlying records, queryable by county — useful for 'what else is permitted near this site' rather than one facility.
EPA Facility Registry ServiceResolves the shell LLC on a permit to the facility it belongs to. Worth a look when the filing name means nothing locally.

These are places to look, not evidence that anything has been filed. Links were checked on 2026-08-21; search links are queries, not records. What to ask for.

Around here

Indiana briefing — rates, grid carbon, PUC contacts.

Other tracked projects in Indiana

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Wolcott Data Center (Mid-America Commerce Park) — White County, 71 mi Awaiting decision
Google Fort Wayne — Fort Wayne, 85 mi Operating

Cite this page: GridWatch AI, “Anthropic-Amazon New Carlisle”, aigridwatch.com/projects/anthropic-amazon-new-carlisle, retrieved 2026-10-11.

As of August 2026 (2m ago) · changes weekly — re-check before citing

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