Another day, another Big Tech data center.
Today Amazon announced plans to spend $12 billion on its first data center campuses in Louisiana.
“Amazon’s $12 billion investment in northwest Louisiana will build next-generation data center campuses to support AI and cloud computing, ensuring opportunities for local communities,” Amazon Chief Global Affairs and Legal Officer David Zapolsky said in the press release. “We’re creating hundreds of high-paying jobs and making substantial investments in local infrastructure.”
Like Meta — which unveiled a $10 billion data center in Indiana earlier this month and is already building a mammoth data center in Louisiana — Amazon’s announcement reads like the standard 2026 AI company template for data centers.
It’s bringing jobs! Amazon says the project will require 1,500 construction workers and 540 full-time employees to operate the facilities. As we’ve noted, for projects that cost this much, the long-term employment…
https://sherwood.news/tech/what-amazons-latest-data-center-announcement-says-about-ai-right-now/
