As of the South Bend Tribune’s November 9, 2026 report, seven of the nine buildings on Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) north campus near New Carlisle, Indiana, were complete and operational. The report said AWS was using them to build, train and run AI models for its partner Anthropic. Construction and planning continued elsewhere across the three-site complex.
Track the project by site: the November account described operating buildings, future commissioning targets and a third site where construction had not begun.
Other sites were at different stages
AWS said the two remaining north-campus buildings were targeted to become operational in the first half of 2027. For the southern campus, AWS expected eight of nine buildings to come online in the weeks after the November 9 report, with the last targeted for early 2027. Those dates were forecasts made in that account.
At the third site, called SBN 210, construction had not begun when the South Bend Tribune reported on the project. St. Joseph County economic-development director Bill Schalliol said winter weather could delay substantial work until spring.
The building plan could change
The reported plan called for 32 buildings across one northern site and two southern sites, but county planning and zoning officials were still working with AWS on the final total. Schalliol said site-plan changes could mean larger buildings but fewer of them.
AWS representative Bijay Niraula told the county’s Water Resources Advisory Board on October 22, 2026, that AWS planned to remove 4.82 acres of existing wetland and create 10.2 acres for mitigation. The figures describe the proposed work.
Hiring and construction outlook
Amazon manager Andre Woodson put the project’s permanent workforce above 1,000, according to the South Bend Tribune. Schalliol separately cited a May count of more than 900 employees, 80% of them Indiana residents.
County leaders expected construction to continue for another two to three years, according to November 2026 coverage.
