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2024 – TODAY
Not in this city, and part of its story: On 25 April 2024 Governor Eric Holcomb and the Indiana Economic Development Corporation announced the largest capital investment in the state's history: Amazon Web Services' $11 billion data-center campus, promising at least 1,000 jobs — at the Indiana Enterprise Center east of New Carlisle, in St. Joseph County, some fifteen miles west of South Bend. Ground was broken in September 2024; the campus — built, on trade reporting, as the Project Rainier facility for training Anthropic's Claude models — brought its first phase online in October 2025. The campus is not in South Bend, and this entry does not make it so. It stands in this section at survey size for two documented reasons: it is the county's technology fact of the decade, seated on the corridor South Bend's own fiber institutions spent twenty years building toward — ChoiceLight's network runs west to New Carlisle — and it is the destination the whole network age of this record was, in retrospect, preparing. The city's technology story ends, for now, fifteen miles west of its line, on ground its own institutions helped wire.
Sources:
- Indiana Economic Development Corporation / Office of the Governor, 25 April 2024 — the $11 billion Amazon Web Services investment announced, "the largest capital investment in Indiana history," at least 1,000 jobs, at the Indiana Enterprise Center east of New Carlisle, St. Joseph County.
- Trade record (Data Center Dynamics and the regional press, 2024–2025) — ground broken September 2024; the Project Rainier campus for Anthropic's Claude; the first phase online October 2025.
- ChoiceLight, Inc. — the network's documented westward build to New Carlisle.