Amazon.com Inc. today announced plans to spend €18 billion, or $21.05 billion, in Spain to expand its data center capacity and server supply chain.
The sum comes on top of a €15.7 billion investment the company detailed in late 2024.
Amazon’s data center construction plan centers on the Spanish region of Aragón, where it already operates cloud infrastructure. The company plans to “build data centers in the province of Teruel, in addition to new facilities in Huesca and Zaragoza.” That means Amazon Web Services Inc. will have servers in all three of Aragón’s provinces once construction is complete.
AWS usually builds its data centers in clusters of three or more. The facilities in a cluster are supported by separate power and networking systems, which means that a failure at one site has a low chance of impacting the others. The data centers tend to be relatively close to one another, which enables them to exchange packets them with low latency.
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https://siliconangle.com/2026/03/02/amazon-invest-another-21b-spain-focus-data-centers/
