Amazon targets Ohio for big AWS operations expansion
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Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) announced a new investment target of around $7.8B to expand its AWS data center operations in Ohio. The Seattle-based e-commerce giant expects to complete the investment by 2030.
The investment will support both direct jobs at the data center site and thousands of additional jobs at local businesses through the construction, operations, and maintenance at local AWS facilities. The additional investment is said to reinforce a long-term partnership between Amazon (AMZN) and the state of Ohio. The Amazon Web Services East Region of Ohio launched in October 2016 with data centers in Franklin and Licking counties. In 2022, 990 of Amazonâs (AMZN) employees in Ohio directly supported AWS, and an additional 3,150 jobs at local vendors supported AWS facilities in on-site roles across the state.
Earlier in the day, a report indicated Amazon (AMZN) is looking to build out a local business network across the U.S. in an effort to improve its "last mile" delivery capabilities. The Amazon Hub Delivery program is expected to start delivering packages by the end of the year. Last week, the company said Amazon Web Services would invest $100M in AWS Generative AI Innovation Center, a new program to help customers build and deploy generative artificial intelligence, or AI, solutions.
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