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Amazon commits €18B more to Spain
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Amazon said it will invest an additional €18 billion in Spain to expand data centres and boost AI innovation, bringing its total investment in the country to €33.7 billion.
Why it matters
The additional investment is €18 billion and is described as expanding Amazon’s data centres in Spain and boosting AI innovation. Amazon said this brings its total investment in Spain to €33.7 billion. Amazon linked the investment to supporting up to 30,000 jobs until 2035. Separately, Amazon previously announced AWS would invest €15.7 billion in data centres in Spain’s Aragon region, supporting an estimated average of 17,500 jobs per year at local companies through 2033.
Implications
- • Data-centre expansion activity in Spain is tied to a stated €33.7 billion total Amazon investment figure.
- • Amazon linked the additional investment to supporting up to 30,000 jobs through 2035.
- • AWS’s previously announced Aragon data-centre investment is tied to an estimated average of 17,500 jobs per year at local companies through 2033.
Who is affected
- • Data-centre operators and infrastructure suppliers
- • Cloud service operators
- • AI engineering and innovation teams
- • Local companies providing services to data-centre projects
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Technology & Innovation Artificial Intelligence Cloud & Data