Why it matters
The strategic read
Turns Amazon's previously broad Northern Indiana AI-infrastructure commitment into a specific power-adjacent campus target. The site sits near NIPSCO's Schahfer Generating Station, and the broader Amazon/NIPSCO framework shows how hyperscalers are using utility-linked land, dedicated generation, transmission cost recovery, ratepayer protections and low-water cooling designs to secure multi-GW AI capacity in the Midwest.
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What was disclosed
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DCD reported on June 3, 2026 that AWS presented plans for a data-center campus in Wheatfield, Indiana during a recent open house at Kankakee Valley High School.
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The Wheatfield plan is described as up to nine buildings on a 304-acre plot of land currently owned by Northern Indiana Public Service Company, with the Schahfer Generating Station about half a mile away.
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DCD reported that NIPSCO and AWS are in conversations regarding the project and that AWS estimates investment of around $7B at Wheatfield if the project receives approval.
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AWS said locating near the power plant would reduce infrastructure and transmission costs, according to DCD's local-reporting trail.
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DCD reported that the project would increase Jasper County tax revenue from around $1.2M to more than $420M over 15 years and that Amazon will pay $1.25B to reduce local ratepayer energy-cost impacts.
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Amazon's November 2025 primary announcement said it plans to invest an estimated $15B in Northern Indiana data-center campuses to support AI and cloud computing technologies.
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Amazon said the Northern Indiana program will add 2.4 GW of data-center capacity and is additional to its earlier $11B St. Joseph County investment.
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Amazon said its NIPSCO framework will have Amazon pay fees to use existing power lines and cover costs for new power plants, power lines and equipment needed to serve the data-center project without additional cost to local residents and businesses.
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Amazon said the total project will add up to 3 GW of new capacity, beyond Amazon's 2.4 GW demand, and provide approximately $1B in cost savings for existing NIPSCO electric customers over 15 years.
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DCD separately reported that Amazon purchased a 10.61-acre Ambernath land parcel near Mumbai for about $13M, adding to adjacent Amazon-owned land for a potential 473 MW India data-center campus, but that India parcel is not the threshold transaction in this Deal Room entry.
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What is known—and what is not
DCD market reporting and local open-house reporting for the Wheatfield site-specific plan, backed by Amazon's primary November 2025 Northern Indiana program release for the $15B / 2.4 GW AI-and-cloud infrastructure commitment and NIPSCO energy framework. Full site approval, land transfer or lease terms, final campus design, utility-service agreement, generation resource mix, interconnection filings, construction/EPC awards, tenant workload allocation, exact MW by site and construction timeline are not fully public.