Amazon announced that it is developing $20 billion in data centers to boost artificial intelligence development.
The effort, based in Pennsylvania, is considered the state’s largest private-sector investment and will create 1,250 high-skilled jobs.
“These efforts reflect Amazon’s ongoing commitment to supporting U.S. leadership in AI and helping customers across all industries harness AI-driven solutions to transform operations and accelerate innovation,” an announcement from Amazon says. “Our strategic investments in advanced computing infrastructure and specialized AI hardware are building the technology backbone for the next generation of generative and agentic AI, and helping to secure America’s position at the forefront of global innovation.”
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro (D) said in a statement that the investment will create “thousands of good-paying, stable jobs as Pennsylvania workers build, maintain, and operate the first two data center campuses in Luzerne County and Bucks County.”
Amazon’s investment comes as President Donald Trump has taken measures to support American AI innovation, supporting the “strength of our free markets, world-class research institutions, and entrepreneurial spirit,” the January 23 executive order says.
“It is the policy of the United States to sustain and enhance America’s global AI dominance in order to promote human flourishing, economic competitiveness, and national security,” the order declares.
Last week, Trump signed an executive order strengthening the country’s cybersecurity, including through the utilization of AI. “Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform cyber defense by rapidly identifying vulnerabilities, increasing the scale of threat detection techniques, and automating cyber defense,” the order says.
