Amazon Web Services Project Rainier (New Carlisle), in order
What happened with this project, oldest first: the stages it reached, what the county and its cities decided, and every dated step on the record. Each entry links its source.
3 events, January 1, 2023 to September 16, 2026. Also on the record, under the month each belongs to: 5 lines that are not events of their own. The facts, newest first: the record; the place: Indiana.
A plain date is the day it happened, as the source states it, or as the line's own sentence states it ("voted on July 6"), which is where the line sits even when it was filed later. "Reported" and a date is the day a source published a line that carries no date of its own. Those lines, and lines that describe rather than report an act, sit under their month rather than on the timeline, with what was said and the figures other sources gave. Every timeline on the site reads its lines by this one rule. How dates are read.
Stages
2023 1 event
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(the year its own sentence names; filed under Sep 20, 2026)
Decision · South Bend (city)
South Bend's public works director Eric Horvath and city engineer Kara Boyles signed NDAs with Amazon in 2023 lpm.org (opens in a new tab)
2026 2 events
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(content date)
running
Amazon Web Services Project Rainier is a 1,200 acre AI data center campus near New Carlisle that began construction in 2024, is now partially operational, and expects up to 2,200 MW peak power demand when fully built out. [1]
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Also in August 2026: 2 lines that are not events of their own
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(source date; the content gives no date of its own)
Decision · St. Joseph County (county)
St. Joseph County leaders debated a two year data center moratorium wvpe.org (opens in a new tab)
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Decision · St. Joseph County (county)
Republican council members proposed a temporary moratorium on new data center projects in St. Joseph County wsbt.com (opens in a new tab)
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(content date)
Decision · South Bend (city)
South Bend Mayor James Mueller issued an executive order banning city staff from signing non disclosure agreements about data centers on September 16, 2026 lpm.org (opens in a new tab)
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Also in September 2026: 3 lines that are not events of their own
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(source date; the content gives no date of its own)
Decision · South Bend (city)
The proposed bill is set for first reading on September 28, 2026 lpm.org (opens in a new tab)
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(source date; the content gives no date of its own)
Decision · South Bend (city)
South Bend Common Council members Oliver Davis Jr. and Sherry Bolden Simpson filed a bill banning NDAs about data centers lpm.org (opens in a new tab)
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(source date; the content gives no date of its own)
Decision · St. Joseph County (county)
St. Joseph County Council is discussing developing a ban on data centers coming to the county. wsbt.com (opens in a new tab)
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On the timeline: a stage change; an entry that reports an act on the day the source or its own sentence gives; and a decision, a published scorecard event on a row at or under the record's county, that reports an act. Under the months: a statement that names this record, a figure another source gave about it, matched by place and developer, an entry dated only by the day its source was published, and an entry or a decision that describes rather than reports an act. Each is on the record in its own right and keeps its own link.
For researchers
- Stage
- being built
- Events on the timeline
- 3
- Under the months
- 5
- Stage changes
- 1
- Decisions
- 7
- Statements
- 0
- Figures
- 0
- Entries and decisions under the months
- 5