NEW CARLISLE, Ind. (AP) – Amazon Web Services, Amazon's cloud computing arm, 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 made the announcement Thursday.
Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb called the project, planned near the town of New Carlisle, about 15 miles (24 kilometers) west of South Bend, “the largest capital investment announcement in Indiana history.”
“This significant investment solidifies Indiana's leadership position in our future economy and will undoubtedly serve the town of New Carlisle, the North Central region, and the state of Indiana for years to come,” Holcomb said in the news release. It will have a positive ripple effect.” release.
Announcements from Holcomb's office and AWS did not include a schedule for the data center campus in northern Indiana's St. Joseph County, which borders the Michigan state line.
However, St. Joseph County Commission Chairman Carl Buxmeyer said in a news release that the Indiana Enterprise Center, located just east of New Carlisle, will be built “over the next 10 years.” Stated. We are an employment center for all of northern Indiana. ”
According to a news release, AWS data centers include 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.” ' will be included.
Roger Wenner, director of economic development for AWS, said the Indiana data center will “create many good-paying job opportunities and make a significant contribution to the state's economic growth while taking advantage of the state's burgeoning technology sector.” Probably.''
The Indiana Economic Development Corporation has committed to exempting data center sales tax “for 50 years of qualified capital investments” under the company's investment plan, the release states.
IEDC offers a variety of performance-based tax credits to support your AWS data center plans, including up to $18.3 million in employee count-based tax credits, up to $55 million in Hoosier Business Investment Tax Credits, and up to $20 million in tax credits. We are also working on tax credits. Redevelopment tax credits are mentioned in the release.
According to the release, AWS will provide up to $7 million to support road infrastructure improvements along State Route 2 surrounding the company's planned data center.