Amazon announced Wednesday it is committing $10 billion to build a new data center in North Carolina as part of its efforts to expand its artificial intelligence and cloud computing infrastructure.
The investment is expected to help further expand Amazon's ability to lock in new computationally intensive workloads and support businesses with AI. statement.
“Amazon's investments are one of the biggest investments in the state's history and will bring hundreds of good paying jobs and financial boosts to Richmond County,” said North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein.
The $10 billion investment is part of Amazon's push to compete with other tech giants such as Google, Microsoft, and Meta in building the infrastructure needed to support large-scale AI models.
The company said the funding would “support the future of AI from AWS data centers in Tarheel,” creating at least 500 highly skilled jobs in the process.
As part of a new build-out, Amazon will fund community college technician training programs, K-12 STEM education, and career paths for fiber broadband infrastructure.
It also launched the $150,000 Richmond County Community Fund to support local projects in workforce development, sustainability and public health.
“The expansion of AI infrastructure is positive news for the industry, but it highlights important issues in the industry. It highlights costs. Decryption.
“The $10 billion investment shows the high costs of building, expanding and maintaining AI infrastructure,” Fan said. “This price will price small developers or businesses that may not have the funds to access the infrastructure and hardware needed to provide the necessary computing power and disrupt innovation.”
Fans said that while investments bring economic benefits, they warned that “there is a strong concentration of all innovative AI work in the hands of major technology.”
Amazon will build “Humanoid Park”
The company is developing AI software for humanoid robots that can ultimately handle delivery tasks. Report by informationQuoting an unknown source.
Amazon reportedly built an indoor obstacle course, Humanoid Park, in one of its San Francisco offices where the robots are being tested.
The company has not publicly commented, but it is said that Amazon will be using third-party hardware during its early attempts.
“Amazon's movement validates what the crypto space has been building: unauthorized intelligence backed by strong infrastructure.” Decryption.
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