Amazon cloud computing unit plans to invest $11 billion to build data center in northern Indiana
NEW CARLISLE, Ind. — NEW CARLISLE, Ind. (AP) – Amazon’s cloud computing unit Amazon Web Services plans to invest $11 billion to build a data center in northern Indiana that will create at least 1,000 new jobs, state and company officials announced Thursday.
Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb called the planned project near the city of New Carlisle, about 15 miles west of South Bend, “the largest capital investment announcement in Indiana history.”
“This significant investment solidifies Indiana’s leadership position in the economy of the future and will undoubtedly have a positive ripple effect on the city of New Carlisle, the north central region and the state of Indiana for years to come,” Holcomb said in a news release. Edition.
The announcement from Holcomb and AWS’s office did not include a timeline for the data center campus in northern Indiana’s St. Joseph County, which borders the Michigan state line.
But Carl Baxmeyer, chairman of the St. Joseph County Board of Commissioners, said in the news release that it would be built “over the next decade” at the Indiana Enterprise Center, just east of New Carlisle, and “become a major employment center for all of Northern Indiana.”
The AWS data center would house computer servers, data storage drives, networking equipment, “and other forms of technology infrastructure used to power cloud computing capabilities, and generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies,” according to the press release.
Roger Wehner, director of economic development for AWS, said the Indiana data center “will create numerous good-paying jobs and leverage the state’s fast-growing technology sector, while contributing significantly to the state’s growing economy.”
Based on the company’s planned investments, the Indiana Economic Development Corp. committed to providing data center sales tax exemptions “for qualifying capital investments over a 50-year term,” according to the press release.
The IEDC has also committed to a variety of performance-based tax credits to support AWS’s data center plans, including up to $18.3 million in headcount-based tax credits, up to $55 million in Hoosier Business Investment tax credits and up to $20 million. in redevelopment tax credits, the release said.
AWS will provide up to $7 million to support road infrastructure improvements along State Road 2, surrounding the company’s planned data center, according to the release.