Indiana Data Center Could Bring Significant Power Use

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Indiana Data Center Could Bring Significant Power Use
The $11 billion data center campus going up outside of Northwest Indiana will have a 2,250-megawatt capacity. It will
be able to use as much electricity as 1.5 million households, or up to half the households in the state.
April 23, 2025
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Joseph S. Pete, The Times, Munster, Ind.
(TNS) — Data centers, which can contain up to tens of thousands of humming computer servers plugged in around the
clock, are notorious for heavy energy consumption.
A massive new data center campus Amazon Web Services is building just outside of Northwest Indiana will be able to
use as much electricity as 1.5 million households in Indiana or up to half the households in the state, according to the
Citizens Action Coalition of Indiana. It’s part of a sharp spike in the demand for electricity that’s unlike anything Indiana
has ever seen.
Amazon Web Services, which invested $87 million in a data center in the Port of AmeriPlex in Portage a few years ago,
is building an $11 billion data center in New Carlisle, just east of LaPorte County. St. Joseph County Economic
Development Director Bill Schalliol said the project, which is the largest private-sector investment in the state’s history,
would support an estimated 3,000 jobs.
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