Amazon To Invest $11B In Indiana Data Center Project
Amazon’s growing investment in data centers has taken root in Indiana, where the company plans to make a record investment in the state.
Amazon will invest $11B on behalf of Amazon Web Services, the cloud computing arm of the company, to build out a data center campus in northern Indiana, the tech company announced Thursday.
In a social media post, Gov. Eric Holcomb called the investment “the largest in Indiana’s history.”
The attention to data centers, a property type coming under increasing scrutiny from local governments and residents, comes as Amazon retools its once-aggressive warehouse strategy and sheds loads of office space.
Excited to announce @awscloud's $11B investment to build a new data center campus in New Carlisle, creating 1,000+ jobs! This historic investment is the largest in #Indiana's history and proves once again that innovation lives in Indiana.https://t.co/TgEw902MpJ pic.twitter.com/qi9S5rraJT
— Governor Eric Holcomb (@GovHolcomb) April 25, 2024
A timeline for the Indiana project wasn't outlined in the announcement, but the release indicated it would be built out over the coming decade in the Indiana Enterprise Center, a 3,000-acre business development zone between the cities of New Carlisle and South Bend in St. Joseph County. General Motors and Samsung announced plans last year to build a $3.5B electric vehicle battery plant in the IEC that is expected to be completed in 2027.
“AWS’s unwavering commitment to supporting our customers and helping drive digital transformation has been evident through our infrastructure investments across the United States,” AWS Director of Economic Development Roger Wehner said in a statement.
Since 2010, Amazon said it had invested $21.5B across a variety of projects in Indiana but is also investing beyond the Hoosier State, planning to spend nearly $150B globally on data centers over the next 15 years, Bloomberg reported. This year so far, Amazon has invested $10B in data centers in Mississippi and paid $650M for a nuclear-powered data center in Pennsylvania.
