Amazon will spend $35 billion in Virginia data centers
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Increased investment will generate 1,000 new employment, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
(Reuters) - The cloud services subsidiary of Amazon.com Inc. announced Friday that it will spend an additional $35 billion by 2040 to expand its Virginia data centers.
The increased investment will generate 1,000 new employment, according to Amazon Web Services (AWS). Glenn Youngkin, the Republican governor of Virginia, said that AWS will build many data center campuses around the state.
AWS had said in 2021 that between 2011 and 2020 it invested $35 billion in data centers in northern Virginia and had 3,500 full-time employees at those facilities.
Additionally, AWS will be qualified for a $140 million state grant that may be used "for workforce development, site and infrastructure enhancements and other project-related expenditures."
