Amazon Project Rainier
A hyperscale AI campus by Amazon (for Anthropic) in New Carlisle, IN, on the PJM grid. Status: operating, expanding.
Grid and gas impact
At full buildout this campus is announced at 2,200 MW. After phasing to 2030 and weighting by build stage, the index expects about 1,188 MW running by 2030. That is about 0.7% of the PJM 2025 summer peak (160,000 MW).
At that level it would use about 7,805 GWh of electricity a year, roughly what 723,000 US homes use (EIA average of about 10,800 kWh per home), and add about 92.9 MMcf/d of natural gas burn on an average day, counting both on-site generation and the region's gas-fired power plants.
Its rating is driven by grid load: power is expected to come mostly from the utility grid, so the effect shows up in transmission, capacity and generation needs, and in the gas burned by the region's power plants. Rated 4 of 4 bolts. Solid bolts mean the campus is operating or under construction.
Research note. 2.2 GW figure from 2025 press coverage; verify against primary source.
Fact sheet
- Index ID
- DC-038
- Campus
- Amazon Project Rainier
- Developer / tenant
- Amazon (for Anthropic)
- Segment
- Hyperscale AI
- Location
- New Carlisle, IN
- State / province
- Indiana
- Country
- United States
- Metro
- South Bend
- Grid region
- PJM
- Electric utility
- Indiana Michigan Power (AEP)
- Status
- Operating, expanding (counts 90% toward 2030)
- Online / target
- 2025–
- Announced capacity
- 2,200 MW (Reported (unspecified))
- Expected load by 2030
- 1,188 MW (index estimate)
- Annual energy at expected load
- about 7,805 GWh
- Power supply
- Grid
- Added gas burn, average day
- 92.9 MMcf/d (index estimate)
- Impact rating
- (4 of 4; scale)
- Confidence
- C (One secondary source)
- Last reviewed
- November 3, 2026
Sources
- The gigawatt era: inside the 5 largest data center projects in America in 2026Smarter Labor · 2026Secondary
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How to cite
Data Center Index (datacenterindex.info), Discovery Energy. "Amazon Project Rainier" (DC-038), https://datacenterindex.info/campuses/dc-038-amazon-project-rainier/, updated November 3, 2026.