Key Points:AI-assisted summary
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) is building a large data center in St. Joseph County, Indiana.
  • The location was chosen for its land, power, water, fiber availability, and local workforce.
  • Data centers use water for cooling only a small fraction of the year to improve power efficiency.
  • AWS is working with local schools to train a workforce and has invested in community nonprofits.
Multiple buildings that are part of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center became operational at the end of October, and the company would like to keep residents more informed and debunk myths connected to data centers, said Brandon Oyer, head of American power and water for AWS.

Here’s what he wants residents to know:

Why St. Joseph County?

Data centers need five things to be successful, Oyer said: land, power, water, fiber availability and a thriving economic area where a workforce could be found

New Carlisle checked off each of those boxes, he said, which led AWS to construct the 18 buildings for its data center.

Each building is predicted to be on average 220,0000 square feet inside, although not every building will be the same size, according to previous Tribune reporting.
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