Amazon’s biggest AI data center is now operational in Indiana, with half a million AWS Trainium2 chips entirely devoted to powering OpenAI rival Anthropic. Just over a year ago, it was nothing but cornfields.

At a meeting this week, the Sidney city council agreed several tax and development agreements with Amazon Data Services. These include a 30-year, 100 percent tax abatement, with Amazon providing the city a payment in lieu of taxes, totaling $50 million over a 15-year period.

Indiana that will run artificial intelligence models for Anthropic PBC. CNBC reported the milestone today. The campus, which is located near Lake Michigan, was built as part of an initiative called Project Rainier that AWS announced last year.

Amazon CFO Brian Olsavsky shared that the company has increased its full-year capital expenditure projections to $125 billion. The company had previously guided for $100 billion in the June quarter. Olsavsky expects the number to be even higher in 2026.

Big Tech companies use secrecy agreements with local governments to keep communities from knowing who is building in their backyards.

Just over a year after construction began, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has opened its giant data center near Lake Michigan in the US state of Indiana. The data center, which is part of AWS Project Rainier, covers 1,200 acres, or 4.86 square kilometers. This makes it one of the largest data centers in the world, CNBC reports.

Amazon's massive investment is part of a larger trend that's transforming the Carolinas into a burgeoning hub for data center development.

Amazon’s cloud computing division reportedly excluded some water consumption to protect its reputation, according to a leaked memo - Anadolu Ajansı

A meeting in Mississippi's smallest town could lead to the largest economic development project in the state's history. Where, and how is Exxon a part?

Amazon said Wednesday that it has completed a massive data center project and that Anthropic is set to use 1 million of its custom chips by the end of 2025. The news comes as AI c