AWS pledges $6bn investment in data center campus in Shreveport, Louisiana
Total data center investment in state now $18bn
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Amazon acquires 8,000-acre site in Pecos, Texas, for natural gas powered behind-the-meter data center - report
If built, it could be the largest natural gas plant in US at 7.65GW
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AWS reports fastest growth since 2021, Amazon annual capex to hit $220bn on AI memory costs
Cloud sales boom as company ramps up data center buildout
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Idaho National Laboratory, Nvidia, AWS launch Prometheus project under Genesis Mission
Seeks to expedite advanced nuclear development through AI
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Amazon sees $25bn raise in bond sale
Follows major bond sales earlier this year
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Former shoe company Allbirds becomes Smartbird, appoints former AWS quantum exec as part of AI cloud pivot
Shares jump again for wannabe neocloud
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Amazon commits $10bn to data center campus in Montgomery City, Missouri
Campus expected to generate thousands of construction jobs
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SK Telecom to sell minority stake in Ulsan data center - report
Minority stake could go for around $1.3bn
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Amazon acquires leased data center in Virginia for $65 million
Company buys site from Menlo Equities
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Amazon buys office and data center site in Maryland from T. Rowe
Companies sign $15 million sale-leaseback deal
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AWS hits $150bn in annualized revenue, as CEO says memory price hikes are pushing cloud adoption
Company claims to be running one of the "top three data center chip businesses in the world"
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Meta signs "multibillion-dollar" agreement with AWS for large-scale Graviton5 deployment
Social media giant says it will deploy “tens of millions” of Graviton5 cores in support of agentic AI workloads
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Amazon invests $5bn in Anthropic; Anthropic agrees to lease 5GW of AWS AI capacity
Could invest a further $20bn in the AI company
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AWS scales up investment commitment for Mississippi data centers to $25bn
Includes developments in Warren County, Hinds County, and Madison County
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Two customers ask to buy all of AWS' Graviton instance capacity in 2026
Don't worry, the company said no
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Amazon raises $53bn in bond sales
Comes as company plans major capex investments in data centers
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US hyperscaler capex to top $700bn in 2026, investors fear overbuild and weak returns - Moody's
Capex in 2026 will be six times larger than 2022
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OpenAI to use 2GW of Trainium on AWS, expand Amazon cloud contract by $100bn
After Amazon pumps $50bn into the AI company
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OpenAI raises $110bn, with $50bn from Amazon, and $30bn from both Nvidia and SoftBank
ChatGPT maker soars to $730bn valuation, signs Amazon compute deal
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Synergy: Enterprise cloud infrastructure spend jumps $12bn in Q4 2025
Spending grows 30 percent year-on-year
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Cipher Mining plans $2bn senior secured notes offering for Amazon-leased Black Pearl data center site in Texas
Deal attracts $13 billion of orders
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Amazon capex to hit $200bn in 2026, will mostly fund AWS data centers
Spending push not a "quixotic top-line grab," CEO Jassy insists, as share price tumbles
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Amazon plans 14,000 more job cuts, including across AWS cloud division
Following similar cuts last October
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OpenAI and Amazon in talks for $10bn investment - report
Would see OpenAI also using AWS' custom AI chips
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AWS to invest $7bn in data centers in Hyderabad, India
Amazon expands its cloud infrastructure footprint
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AWS to spend $50bn expanding AI and HPC capacity for US government
Will see nearly 1.3GW of capacity added across Top Secret, Secret, and US GovCloud regions
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OpenAI signs $38bn multi-year cloud deal with AWS for access to Nvidia GB200s and GB300s
Deal to run for seven years, and will likely see AWS build additional infrastructure to meet startup’s capacity demands
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AWS added 3.8GW of data center capacity in the last year
CEO Jassy hails Amazon's cloud platform's best quarterly growth figures since 2022