Price Tag for Amazon’s Mississippi Data Centers Jump 60% to $16 Billion
- Project tally includes $7.2 billion for servers and other gear
- Majority of 1,000 data center jobs created will be contractors
Across the US, cloud providers are spending tens of billions of dollars to expand computing capacity by constructing new data centers.
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Amazon.com Inc. is expected to spend 60% more than previously announced on a massive data center project in Mississippi, underscoring the escalating costs for artificial intelligence infrastructure.
The company will spend $16 billion to construct two data center campuses north of the state capital Jackson, according to state planning documents reviewed by Bloomberg. When Amazon announced the project a year ago, the company put the price tag at $10 billion and called it “the single largest capital investment in Mississippi’s history.”