New Delhi, April 13 -- 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.

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 noted the company still faces ...