Amazon creates ‘Project Houdini’ to make data center delays disappear

Amazon is trying to radically speed up the time it takes to build the data centers powering the AI boom.

Inside the company, an initiative known as Project Houdini — a nod to the escape artist — aims to move much of the construction process into factories, turning the core server room into a set of large, preassembled modules, according to internal documents obtained by Business Insider.

The goal is to accelerate how quickly Amazon Web Services can bring new computing capacity…