By Chris Benson
Publication Date: 2025-12-10 16:11:00
Dec. 10 (UPI) — Amazon and Microsoft announced separate billion-dollar investments in India aimed at expanding AI services in other key areas, like employment.
On Wednesday, Amazon unveiled plans to invest over $35 billion across its businesses in India through 2030. Microsoft, meanwhile, will invest $17.5 billion over the next four years to expand India’s cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure, workforce training and other in other areas, the company said Tuesday.
We have invested at scale in growing the physical and digital infrastructure for small businesses in India, creating millions of jobs, and taking Made-in-India global,” according to Amit Agarwal, Amazon’s senior VP of emerging markets.
Amazon said by 2030 it will support more than 3 million direct, indirect and seasonal jobs and has digitized 12 million small businesses in India enabling some $20 billion in exports.
Microsoft’s fresh commitment builds on a $3 billion pledge made earlier this year, which…
