Amazon’s Project Star: Massive $11B Hyperscale AI Hub in Indiana

Status: Under Construction / Rapid Structural Build (May 2026)   |   Location: New Carlisle, Indiana

Project Overview

As of May 8, 2026, Amazon Web Services has significantly expanded construction activity on its “Project Star” data center campus in Indiana, reportedly doubling the size of its structural workforce as development accelerates. The project, valued at approximately $11 billion, represents the largest private investment in Indiana’s history and highlights AWS’s growing focus on advanced artificial intelligence and low-latency cloud infrastructure across the Midwest. Strategically positioned to serve major enterprise markets such as Chicago and Detroit, the campus is engineered as a “Low-Latency Anchor,” designed to reduce data transmission delays for financial services, manufacturing, logistics, and AI-intensive workloads operating across the region. Unlike traditional cloud campuses optimized solely for general compute demand, Project Star is being specifically configured for AWS’s custom AI accelerators, including Trainium and Inferentia chips, which support large-scale machine learning training and inference operations. The facility also incorporates a sophisticated air-to-liquid hybrid cooling architecture that leverages Indiana’s cooler seasonal temperatures to reduce mechanical cooling requirements and improve efficiency. Through this design, AWS aims to maintain an exceptionally low Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) rating of approximately 1.15, placing the campus among the more energy-efficient hyperscale deployments in North America. To support long-term sustainability goals, AWS has also committed to a large-scale regional solar energy procurement initiative intended to achieve full renewable energy matching by the time the first operational data hall becomes active.

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