Amazon to pump US$10 billion in data centre

Amazon Web Services (AWS) will invest another US$10 billion to bolster its data centre infrastructure in Ohio, USA.

The company and Govenor Mike DeWine announced the plan on Monday. The new investment will boost the amount it has committed to spending in Ohio by the end of 2029 to more than US$23 billion. AWS launched its first data centres in the state in 2016 and currently operates campuses in two counties in central Ohio, home to the capital city of Columbus. The new investment will allow AWS to expand its data centres to new sites, but the company said those locations have not been determined yet and noted that its investment plans are contingent upon the execution of long-term energy service agreements. AWS said the new data centres will contain computer servers, storage drives, networking equipment and other forms of technology infrastructure used to power cloud computing, including artificial intelligence and machine learning. In June 2023, AWS said it would invest US$7.8 billion by the end of 2029 to expand its data centre operations in central Ohio. That was on top of US$6 billion already invested through 2022.

- AP