Amazon To Invest $3 Billion In Mississippi Data Center To Power AI, Cloud Expansion

• Amazon said this represents the largest private investment in Warren County's history and follows its $10 billion investment in Madison County announced in 2024. 
• The company said this would also support more than 300 additional full-time equivalent positions in Warren County.
• This is on the heels of AWS and OpenAI’s multi-year strategic partnership, which provides AWS’s infrastructure to run and scale the ChatGPT maker’s core AI workloads. 

Amazon.com (AMZN) said on Thursday it plans to invest at least $3 billion in Warren County, Mississippi, to build a new data center campus to support artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing technologies.

The e-commerce giant said the investment is expected to create at least 200 new jobs at the Amazon data center campus and to support more than 300 additional full-time equivalent positions in Warren County.

Amazon said this represents the largest private investment in Warren County's history and follows its $10 billion investment in Madison County announced in 2024. 

Amazon And AI Scaling

Several tech companies are building out data centers to boost the expansion of AI and cloud infrastructure. Amazon has committed to investing heavily in AI, with the company announcing in early November a multi-year strategic partnership with OpenAI that provides AWS’s infrastructure to run and scale the ChatGPT maker’s core AI workloads. 

The companies said that under the $38 billion agreement, which is expected to continue growing over the next seven years, OpenAI is accessing AWS compute, comprising hundreds of thousands of state-of-the-art Nvidia (NVDA) Graphic Processing Units (GPUs).

Amazon had then said that the swift scaling of AI technology has now created “unprecedented demand” for computing power. The company’s AI scaling, however, comes at the cost of a reduction in the total corporate workforce. 

How Did Stocktwits Users React?

Retail sentiment on Amazon remained unchanged in the ‘bearish’ territory, with message volumes at ‘low’ levels, according to data from Stocktwits.

Shares of Amazon have gained nearly 11% in the last 12 months. 

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