Amazon to invest $20 billion in Australia’s data centre infrastructure
Amazon will invest $20 billion (US$12.97 billion) from 2025 to 2029 to expand, operate and maintain its data centre infrastructure in Australia, bolstering the nation’s artificial intelligence capabilities, it said in a blog post on Saturday.
The investment is Amazon’s largest global technology commitment in Australia, with funding directed toward new server capacity and support for generative AI workloads.
The company is also investing in three new solar farms in Victoria and Queensland, and will commit to buy a combined capacity of more than 170 megawatts across the three farms, it added.
“Amazon Web Services’ $20 billion investment in data centres in Australia will set us up for the future, boosting our economy and productivity,” Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said in a post on social media platform X.
“This is a huge vote of confidence in the Australian economy,” he added.
Major tech companies worldwide are expanding their infrastructure to support rapidly growing demand for generative AI and cloud computing.
Companies like Amazon, Microsoft and Google have been ramping up data centre investments to secure market share and meet AI workload requirements.
On Monday, Amazon announced plans to invest at least $20 billion in Pennsylvania to expand data centre infrastructure, adding on to the billions of dollars the technology giant has committed to the expansion of AI.
In early June, the company said it will invest US$10 billion in North Carolina and announced plans to invest more than US$5 billion in its new cloud infrastructure in Taiwan.
- Reporting by Surbhi Misra in Bengaluru; Editing by Richard Chang and Nick Zieminski, of Reuters.
- Further reading: Amazon invests $490m in two Western Sydney fulfilment centres
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