The $11 billion data center Amazon Web Services is building in New Carlisle will power artificial intelligence, use renewable energy and feature energy-efficient design, the company said.
Amazon Web Services announced this week new design components that aim to simplify mechanical systems and the electrical distribution in its network of data centers that serve as a backbone for the internet in a digital age. It says the changes will reduce the number of racks that can be affected by electrical issues by 89% and result in infrastructure availability of 99.9999%.
“As more customers migrate to the cloud and integrate AI into their businesses, we will continue to innovate to support that demand," Amazon Web Services Vice President of Data Center Planning and Delivery Kerry Person said. "We’re committed to continuously optimizing the design and operations of our data centers worldwide to enable innovation and increase energy efficiency. Many of these new technologies can be immediately deployed into data centers under construction, integrated into new building designs, and even retrofitted into existing facilities.”
Amazon Web Services expects to employ 1,000 people at the massive data center just east of LaPorte County, supporting an estimated 3,000 jobs. It's the largest private sector investment in state history, nearly tripling the $4.2 billion BP Whiting modernization project.
The Seattle-based company said it came up with cooling, rack design and control systems that will result in 12% more computing power.
Amazon Web Services has been building large data centers for 18 years. It's provided servers for AI for 13 years and is investing in new data center capacity because of the growing number of customers using artificial intelligence and machine learning services.
More energy-efficient designs will result in a 46% decrease in mechanical energy consumption and a 35% reduction in the embodied carbon in the concrete used in construction, AWS said.
“Data centers must evolve to meet AI’s transformative demands,” said Ian Buck, vice president of hyperscale and HPC at NVIDIA, an Amazon Web Services business partner. “By enabling advanced liquid cooling solutions, AI infrastructure can be efficiently cooled while minimizing energy use. Our work with AWS on their liquid cooling rack design will allow customers to run demanding AI workloads with exceptional performance and efficiency.”
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