At Amazon’s biggest data centre, everything is supersized for AI

A year ago, a 1,200-acre stretch of farmland outside New Carlisle, Indiana, was an empty cornfield. Now, seven Amazon data centres rise up from the rich soil, each larger than a football stadium.

Over the next several years, Amazon plans to build around 30 data centres at the site, packed with hundreds of thousands of specialized computer chips. With hundreds of thousands of miles of fibre connecting every chip and computer together, the entire complex will form one giant machine intended just for artificial intelligence.

The facility will consume…