What is Project Houdini? How Amazon plans to build data centres faster by cutting thousands of labour hours

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