Amazon announced on Monday it plans to spend $20 billion in Pennsylvania to create multiple data campuses that could create 1,250 jobs in the commonwealth.

Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro announced the locations of the first campuses: in Salem Township and Falls Townships in Luzerne and Bucks Counties. More locations are expected to be announced in the coming months.

The sites, described as “high-tech cloud computing and artificial intelligence innovations campuses,” will be anchored by giant warehouses designed to store data. The projects are expected to provide high-skilled jobs like data center engineers, network specialists and other technical roles.

Data centers are essentially storage units for digital information. They host multiple large computer servers that provide infrastruc

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