Overview
- AWS says seven of a planned 30 buildings are already online, with the campus training models today.
- Anthropic is running Claude on roughly 500,000 Trainium 2 chips at the Indiana complex.
- Executives cast the buildout as a strategy to pair proprietary silicon with tailored infrastructure to secure major AI customers.
- The data center is expected to draw more than two gigawatts of power, and the local utility projects peak demand will roughly double when fully online.
- Residents and officials near New Carlisle are raising environmental and cost concerns as AWS accelerates expansion.