Amazon is making a major financial commitment to expand its data center infrastructure in North Carolina.

The online giant plans to invest an estimated $10 billion in North Carolina to support AI and cloud computing technologies. This investment is expected to create at least 500 new high-skilled jobs while supporting thousands of other jobs in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center supply chain.

The investment will support development of leading-edge technologies such as generative AI . It follows a plan announced in January 2025 to dedicate an estimated $11 billion to support cloud computing and artificial intelligence technologies in Georgia and a December 2024 commitment to increase its investment in AWS data centers in Ohio by $10 billion.

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