Amazon redesigns its Indiana data center campus for an 'AGI Pivot' frontier model push

Internal planning documents show Amazon consolidating multiple data centers on its rural Indiana campus into a single large cluster with thousands of Trainium-powered AI servers. The effort, internally called "AGI Pivot," supports Amazon's AGI organization and its next generation of in-house frontier models, with deployment schedules accelerated to secure enough capacity to train the next big model before year end. The plans undercut the read that last month's AGI job cuts and the Nova wind-down meant Amazon was retreating from frontier models. Linking existing facilities into one efficient cluster also serves Amazon's push to squeeze returns from record infrastructure spending; 2026 AI capex is now $220 billion.

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