Amazon creates 'Project Houdini' to make data center delays disappear

Matt Garman AWS CEO Noah Berger/Getty Images for Amazon Web Services Amazon's Project Houdini modularizes main server rooms, expediting AWS data center buildouts. Project Houdini expects to save weeks of construction time and tens of thousands of labor hours. Bottlenecks are slowing the expansion of AI infrastructure as demand surges. 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 Ho...