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Report: Amazon Hopes Its Project Houdini Modular Data Center Plan Is the Trick to Speed up Construction

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Amazon is seeking to break through data center construction bottlenecks to meet searing demand for its cloud services. The new modular system would slash labor costs and construction time, according to...

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Amazon is trying to reduce radically the time needed to build data centres that feed “boom” artificial intelligence, through an initiative known within the company’s right “Houdini Project”, reports Business Insider. The project named after the famous illusionist and evasion artist proposes to move a large part of the construction process in factories, transforming the main room of ...

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Within Amazon, an initiative known as Project Houdini – a wink to the escapist – aims to move much of the construction process to the factories, turning the main server room into a set of large and preassembled modules, according to internal documents obtained by Business Insider.The aim is to accelerate the speed with which AWS can put new computing capacity online, a priority that has acquired a new urgency as demand for AI is triggered and bo…

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Business Insider broke the news in United States on Friday, April 10, 2026.
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