Amazon mentioned on Monday it could make investments an extra 18 billion euros ($21 billion) in Spain to develop its data centres and enhance AI innovation, bringing its complete funding within the nation to 33.7 billion euros.
Amazon introduced the funding after Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez met David Zapolsky, Amazon’s chief international affairs and authorized officer, on the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Zapolsky mentioned the funding would help as much as 30,000 jobs till 2035.
“With this investment, we make Spain the AI epicentre of our operations in Europe,” he mentioned.
Last yr, Amazon introduced that its cloud computing unit AWS would make investments 15.7 billion euros in knowledge centres in Spain’s northeastern Aragon area, which might help the creation of an estimated common of 17,500 jobs per yr at native corporations by way of 2033.
($1 = 0.8519 euros)
