Data center campus
Amazon Project Rainier Data Center (New Carlisle)
Amazon Project Rainier Data Center is an announced AI data center campus. 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 · Private land · PJM · New Carlisle, Indiana, United States
Capacity: announced vs energized
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.
| Source | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Announced | 2.20 GW | 2025-10-29 | claimed | journalist report |
| Energized | 0.91 GW | 2026-03-23 | reported | journalist report |
| Under construction | 1.93 GW | 2028-01-01 | claimed | journalist report |
The deal
- developer
- Amazon Web Services · Owner-operator of the ~1,200-acre New Carlisle campus.
- tenant
- Anthropic · Primary tenant; trains and serves Claude models on the cluster.
- chip supplier
- AWS Annapurna Labs (Trainium2/Trainium3) · Amazon's in-house AI accelerators; ~500k Trainium2 chips deployed.
- investor
- Amazon · Strategic investor in Anthropic in addition to infrastructure provider.
- utility
- Indiana Michigan Power (AEP) · Grid supply and high-voltage interconnection.
- grid operator
- PJM · I&M operates within PJM Interconnection.
Power
- Power source
- grid
- Grid operator
- PJM
- Interconnection
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.
Financial structure
- 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
Sources
- Amazon opens $11 billion AI data center Project Rainier in Indiana · CNBC
- Anthropic-Amazon New Carlisle | AI Data Centers · Epoch AI
- AWS Project Rainier, Indiana: Latest Updates (2026) · Blackridge Research
- AWS New Carlisle Data Center Campus: Project Rainier · MeasuredAI
49044b3a-b534-4134-b8b4-461e0eb98bf2 · Tracked with DEPLOY's verified-vs-claimed methodology. Announced numbers are claims, not built capacity.