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648-acre Data Center Proposed in Clarksdale, Mississippi

A 648-acre data center has been proposed in Clarksdale, northern Mississippi. On Monday, city officials held an informational meeting on a potential project planned for agricultural land between the Sunflower River and Tallahatchie Street.The city’s board of commissioners had considered a rezo...

March 17, 2026

Mississippi

Musk’s xAI Approved for 41 Natural gas Turbines in Mississippi to Power Colossus Data Centers

Elon Musk’s AI company xAI has received approval to install 41 natural gas turbines at a site in Mississippi, generating up to 1.2GW to power its local data centers.The turbines, which will be installed at a former Duke Energy power plant site in Southaven, will be used to power xAI’s Colossus...

March 11, 2026

Mississippi

AWS Behind Plans for $750M Data Center in Clinton, Mississippi

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is reportedly planning a $750 million data center project in Clinton, Mississippi. While the company has not been officially confirmed, WLBT3 reports that a quitclaim deed shows Amazon acquired the 99-acre site on February 13.The data center will be located at 1001 In...

March 06, 2026

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Mississippi Governor Labels Data Center Moratoriums as “Civilizational Suicide”

The governor of Mississippi hit back at calls to pause data center construction across the US. Governor Tate Reeves claimed that those seeking a data center moratorium were "yearning to submit our society to outside forces: mobs, international councils, or communist China.""I understand indivi...

February 24, 2026

Mississippi

Amazon Capex to Hit $200bn in 2026

Amazon plans to double its capex spend in 2026, investing $200 billion, most of which will be funnelled into data centers for its AWS cloud division.The firm revealed the news as it reported its financial results for Q4 2025, which saw operating income across Amazon grow to $25 billion, up fro...

February 05, 2026

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Amazon: 30,000 Jobs Out, $125 Billion in AI Spending In

The company blames bureaucracy. The balance sheet tells a different story.Amazon has now eliminated 30,000 corporate positions since October, making it the largest workforce reduction in the company's 30-year history. The cuts came in two waves: 14,000 in late October 2025, followed by another...

February 04, 2026

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Amazon Confirms 16,000 Layoffs, Including at AWS

Amazon plans to cut some 16,000 workers across the company, in its latest round of layoffs. Job losses were first rumored last week, and then accidentally leaked when a draft email written by Colleen Aubrey, a SVP at cloud division Amazon Web Services (AWS), was included in a calendar invitati...

January 30, 2026

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Amazon Plans 14,000 More Job Cuts

Amazon is gearing up to lay off as many as 14,000 white-collar workers, with cuts starting as soon as next Tuesday. Jobs at cloud division Amazon Web Services are among those at risk, along with retail, Prime Video, and human resources units.The cuts follow layoffs at AWS last July, which impa...

January 24, 2026

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xAI Confirms New Data Center in Mississippi

Elon Musk’s AI company xAI has confirmed it is set to build a third data center in Mississippi, and will invest more than $20 billion in the state. The data center in Southhaven, DeSoto County, which will be known as MACROHARDRR – an apparent dig at Microsoft – will supply compute power for th...

January 09, 2026

Mississippi

AWS Plans Data Center in Covington, Georgia

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is planning a data center in Covington, just outside of Atlanta, Georgia.The company has made a $100 million agreement with the city to construct a water treatment and cooling facility to support the data center.“This new project is expected to generate significant ne...

January 03, 2026

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AWS Gets Greenlight for Three Data Centers in Dublin

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has received planning permission for three data centers in north Dublin, Ireland. The greenlight, awarded by planning appeals body An Coimisiún Pleanála (ACP), comes three years after the application was first filed by Amazon affiliate Universal Developers LLC.The dat...

January 03, 2026

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AWS to Invest $7bn in Data Centers in Hyderabad, India

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has signed an agreement with the Government of Telangana to significantly expand its data center footprint in the Indian state. AWS will invest $7 billion in its cloud infrastructure in Hyderabad over the next 14 years.A. Revanth Reddy, Telangana's Chief Minister, sai...

December 12, 2025

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AWS and Google Cloud Partner on Multicloud Networking

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud are teaming up on a multicloud networking solution. Rob Enns, and AWS' VP of network services, Robert Kennedy, the two aim to help create a "more open" cloud environment wherein Google and AWS can connect with one another in a "simplified manner."Acco...

December 05, 2025

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BlackRock Brings Aladdin Investment Platform to AWS

Investment management company BlackRock is teaming up with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to bring its Asset, Liability, Debt, and Derivative Investment Network (Aladdin) platform to the cloud. “Our Aladdin clients are seeking open, flexible platforms that can adapt to their operating models and sc...

December 03, 2025

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Amazon Announces $15bn Data Center & AI Investment Plan

Amazon is to invest $15 billion in data center & AI infrastructure in Indiana. This is in addition to the $11 billion investment announced last year in St. Joseph County. The company said it aims to add 2.4GW of capacity in the region, expanding to new sites in the Hoosier State.“These fac...

November 28, 2025

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Penzance Secures AWS as Tenant for Virginia Facility

Real estate firm Penzance this week announced that Amazon will lease the 45MW, 240,000 sq ft (22,296 sqm) facility, located at 4151 Autopark Circle in Chantilly. Construction work has started and is expected to be completed in the first half of 2027. The facility will utilize air-cooled system...

November 24, 2025

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AWS and Humain Expand Partnership

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Saudi Arabia's Humain have expanded their partnership to include the deployment of some 150,000 AI chips. The AI chips will include Nvidia GB300s and AWS' Trainium AI chips, and will be used for both training and inference workloads. In addition to the deployment,...

November 20, 2025

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Amazon’s Kuiper Satellite Venture Rebrands to Amazon Leo

Amazon has rebranded its satellite venture from Project Kuiper to simply Amazon Leo. The company currently has more than 150 Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites in orbit, with several thousand more planned in the coming years.“Like most early Amazon projects, the program needed a code name, and t...

November 15, 2025

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OpenAI Signs $38bn Multi-year Cloud Deal with AWS

OpenAI has signed a $38 billion seven-year agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) which will see the generative AI giant run its workloads on AWS infrastructure. Under the terms of the deal, OpenAI will have access to “hundreds of thousands” of Nvidia GB200s and GB300s via Amazon EC2 UltraSe...

November 04, 2025

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AWS to Invest $5bn in South Korea Data Centers

Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to invest a further $5 billion in data centers in South Korea, which will include the construction of new AI data centers in the Incheon and Gyeonggi regions. This investment builds on a previous $4 billion commitment to the country made in June of this year.Pre...

October 30, 2025

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