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.
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Data centers in Jasper County
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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.
NIPSCO asked the IURC to approve a special contract with Amazon Data Services signed September 18, 2025, along with a related power purchase agreement with an affiliated generation company dated November 7, 2025. The case sets terms large data center customers must meet, and consumer advocates including the Citizens Action Coalition have filed objections during 2026. As of mid August 2026 the case was still awaiting a final commission order.
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