Amazon is reportedly developing a new initiative internally dubbed ‘Project Houdini’ to radically accelerate the construction of the data centres powering the artificial intelligence boom. According to internal documents reported by Business Insider, the new Amazon initiative aims to move much of the construction process off-site into factories, turning the core server rooms into a set of large, preassembled modules.
Project Houdini to cut months of time
Amazon reportedly expects ‘Project Houdini’ to drastically reduce the time taken for Amazon Web Services (AWS) to bring new computing capacity online, while eliminating tens of thousands of on-site labour hours. In his recent annual shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said the company still faces “capacity constraints that yield unserved demand.”
One of the documents reported by Business Insider said, “Given the need for accelerated DC delivery… we have been exploring solutions to take various DC build scopes to…
