Water
AWS data center contractor intrudes into protected wetland near New Carlisle; state seeks penalties
Confirmed
- Date
- 2025-08-13
- Location
- New Carlisle, St. Joseph County, Indiana, United States
- Category
- Water
- Distance from data center
- Not stated in sources
Evidence
- Did the harm happen?
- Officially confirmed
- Did the data center cause it?
- Confirmed
- AI connection
- No verified AI connection
- What was affected
- Land, Wildlife
- Why
- State regulators cited the AWS contractor for the wetland incursion.
Indiana regulators cited an Amazon Web Services contractor for an accidental incursion into a wetland at the AWS data center project east of New Carlisle and sought penalties, while AWS continued pursuing plans to build on 9.7 more acres of wetland.