Jasper County commissioners unanimously approved development agreements on June 15, 2026 for a 7 billion dollar AWS data center campus called Project Rise on a 304 acre NIPSCO-owned parcel near the R.M. Schahfer Generating Station in Wheatfield. AWS will provide 98 million dollars in upfront funding plus 23 million dollars annually for 10 years, and 1.25 billion dollars to offset ratepayer impact; the campus will rely primarily on air cooling, using water-based cooling only about 2 percent of the year.
Power bills in Jasper County
Most of the county is served by NIPSCO.
This case decides how Amazon's Indiana data center load is billed and how new power plant costs tied to it are shared, which affects whether any of those costs can be spread to other NIPSCO customers.
The Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission fully approved NIPSCO's special contract with Amazon Data Services and NIPSCO Generation's related power purchase agreement, covering two 1.3 gigawatt gas plants plus a 400 megawatt battery system, in an order dated June 17, 2026. NIPSCO says the 15 year deal is expected to save residential ratepayers about 1 billion dollars, with power deliveries to Amazon's Indiana data centers beginning January 1, 2027.
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