Amazon investing another $10 billion in Ohio-based data centers

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Amazon Web Services will invest another $10 billion to bolster its data center infrastructure in Ohio.

The corporation and Republican Gov. Mike DeWine announced the schedule Monday. The recent stake distribution will boost the amount it has committed to spending in Ohio by the complete of 2029 to more than $23 billion.

AWS launched its first data centers in the state in 2016 and currently operates campuses in two counties in central Ohio, home to the stake distribution city of Columbus. The recent stake distribution will allow AWS to expand its data centers to recent sites, but the corporation said those locations have not been determined yet and noted that its stake distribution plans are contingent upon the execution of long-term vigor service agreements.

AWS said the recent data centers 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 $7.8 billion by the complete of 2029 to expand its data center operations in central Ohio. That was on top of $6 billion already invested through 2022.