Amazon announces $10 billion investment in North Carolina to build AI and cloud computing data centers

Amazon has officially announced that it will invest $10 billion in North Carolina to build a new generation of data centers to support its expanding artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing business. This major investment not only reflects Amazon's ambitions in infrastructure, but also marks that North Carolina is increasingly becoming a strategic location favored by technology giants.

Amazon pointed out in a statement that the new data center will be built for "computation-intensive workloads", focusing on AI model training, generative AI tool deployment, and AWS cloud service customers' growing demand for high-performance computing. After the project is completed, it is expected to bring hundreds of high-paying technical jobs to the state and help upgrade the local economic structure.

"This investment is one of the largest in our state's history," said North Carolina Governor Josh Stein. "It will bring real economic development to Richmond County and surrounding areas, proving that North Carolina is becoming a hotbed for the development of high-tech industries."

The implementation of this project also continues Amazon's strategic deployment rhythm in the southern United States in recent years. With the widespread application of generative AI, the demand for low-latency, high-performance, green and energy-saving computing infrastructure has surged. Amazon is accelerating the deployment of new data centers around the world to maintain its leading position in the AWS cloud service market and enhance its service capabilities for enterprise-level AI customers.

As the global AI competition continues to heat up, large technology companies have increased their infrastructure investment. Amazon's move will undoubtedly intensify competition with Microsoft and Google in the fields of AI computing power and cloud services, and also bring development opportunities to North Carolina, which is considered to be the "next Silicon Valley corridor." Industry analysts pointed out that this project may also attract more AI startups and upstream and downstream technology companies to gather locally in the future, further expanding the cluster effect.