{"id":216846,"date":"2025-06-29T18:06:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T23:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/amazon-is-building-a-gigantic-computing-facility-to-match-the-human-brain"},"modified":"2025-06-29T18:06:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T23:06:28","slug":"amazon-is-building-a-gigantic-computing-facility-to-match-the-human-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/amazon-is-building-a-gigantic-computing-facility-to-match-the-human-brain","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Is Building a Gigantic Computing Facility to Match the Human Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/amazon-is-building-a-gigantic-computing-facility-to-match-the-human-brain2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Indiana\u2019s newest cash crop isn\u2019t soybeans or corn; it\u2019s AI data centers \u2014 <em>lots and lots<\/em> of AI data centers.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/06\/24\/technology\/amazon-ai-data-centers.html\" class=\"\"><em>New York Times <\/em>reports<\/a> that Amazon is building a vast complex of AI infrastructure facilities on top of 1,200 acres of former cropland, all meant for startup Anthropic\u2019s project to build an AI model that is as powerful, complex \u2014 and, just possibly, as intelligent \u2014 as the human brain.<\/p>\n<p>To that end, Amazon has constructed seven data centers on site, with around 30 slated to be built in total, according to the newspaper. It\u2019s such an outrageously ambitious project, with untold billions in investment, that Amazon has tapped four separate construction firms to get the complex finished as soon as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indiana\u2019s newest cash crop isn\u2019t soybeans or corn; it\u2019s AI data centers \u2014 lots and lots of AI data centers. The New York Times reports that Amazon is building a vast complex of AI infrastructure facilities on top of 1,200 acres of former cropland, all meant for startup Anthropic\u2019s project to build an AI model [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}