AWS LaPorte Mega-Site
"Amazon bought the farmland through a shell called Razor5, then the dewatering started drying neighbors' wells."
New Carlisle, LaPorte County, IN
AWS LaPorte Mega-Site is a under construction data center in LaPorte County, IN, operated by Amazon Data Services, Inc. and ultimately owned by Amazon.com, Inc.. DataCentersExposed has documented 1,300 MW of reported power capacity at this site.
Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated Jun 17, 2026
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1,300 MW of new demand — roughly a city of 1,040,000 homes.
Large new loads can raise transmission and capacity costs that land on every ratepayer. Residential power in IN is 17.9¢/kWh, up 6.0% year-over-year. (MW→homes is a rough ~800/MW planning figure.)
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Overview
Beyond Project Rainier, Amazon has committed roughly $26 billion to data centers across northern Indiana, the largest tech investment in state history. That breaks into the $11 billion to $13.8 billion New Carlisle campus and a $15 billion expansion announced in November 2025. A separate NIPSCO deal would supply about 3 gigawatts, with an unregulated utility subsidiary building up to 3 gigawatts of new gas and storage.
The land assembly drew scrutiny: Amazon gathered more than 600 acres in 2023 through a shell company called Razor5, which the county council rezoned from agricultural to industrial on an 8-1 vote in 2024 without Amazon's role ever being formally confirmed. Construction dewatering then dropped water tables enough to dry out residents' wells near New Carlisle, and the county capped withdrawals from the Kankakee aquifer at 24 million gallons a day, below its estimated safe yield.
Indiana's 35-year data-center sales-tax exemption underwrites the buildout. The backlash is real: a separate $12 to $13 billion proposal (which a spokesperson denied was Meta) was rejected 7-2 after a roughly 15-hour December 2025 hearing, and LaPorte County is drafting limits on where data centers can go.
Operator chain
- Ultimate parentAmazon.com, Inc.
- Files asAmazon Data Services, Inc.
- This facilityAWS LaPorte Mega-Site
Grid & water — why here
source: HIFLD · EPAThe closest existing grid infrastructure and the municipal water system this location sits in — the same constraints the buildout model screens on (it won't site a campus more than ~2 km from a substation or ~5 km from municipal water). Distances are straight-line to public HIFLD/EPA features, not a metered connection.
In the news
source: GDELTTax breaks & subsidies
source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77No per-deal tax break is linked to this site yet. No state discloses the recipient of a data-center abatement at the facility level, so per-site deals are rare in the public record. If you have a development agreement or board resolution for this site, send it to us.
Water use
No measured record exists, so this is a low-confidence model from 1,300 MW (disclosed IT power): 1.8 L/kWh cooling (temperate climate) + 0.5 gal/kWh embedded in PJM grid mix. How we estimate. Have a utility document? Send it and we'll replace this with the real figure.
EPA permits & violations
source: EPA ECHONo reported violations as of last sync.
What this site costs the grid
source: PJM RPM auction reportsPJM's capacity auction sets a $/MW-day price that utilities pass on to every household and business in the zone. This site cleared at the PJM-wide (RTO) price, where soaring data-center demand is a documented driver. See the full zone-by-zone breakdown →
1,300 MW of load at the zone's $333/MW-day, annualized — the capacity charge a load this size carries at the current auction price.
Separately, a typical home in this zone pays an estimated $4 to $10/mo more on the capacity portion of its bill that PJM's market monitor attributes to data-center demand. See your address's full impact →
Air quality near this site
source: AirNowAir Quality Index from the nearest AirNow reporting area (South Bend), as of 2026-06-10. Regional context — not this facility's own emissions.
Who lives nearby
source: Census ACS 2023Demographics of the census tract this facility sits in (American Community Survey 5-year estimates). Environmental-justice context for who bears the local impacts.
Nearest school
source: HIFLD / NCESThe nearest public school, Olive Township Elementary School in New Carlisle, is 0.6 mi from this site (477 students).
Schools are sensitive receptors for the noise, backup-generator exhaust, and traffic a large data center brings. Straight-line distance to the nearest public school (HIFLD/NCES, US public schools only).
Hearings timeline
No public-hearing records linked to this site yet. We surface planning-commission and board-of-supervisors dates when a record names a facility. If you know of a hearing on this site, tell us.