Ohio Governor DeWine announces $10B investment plan from AWS

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, Lt. Governor Jon Husted, the Ohio Department of Development, and JobsOhio announced that Amazon Web Services plans to invest an estimated $10B in additional funding to expand its data center infrastructure across greater Ohio, creating hundreds of new jobs by the end of 2030. The new data centers will contain computer servers, data storage drives, networking equipment, and other forms of technology infrastructure used to power cloud computing, including artificial intelligence and machine learning. The new investment builds on the $7.8B investment plan announced by AWS last year, which was in addition to the more than $6B already invested through 2022, bringing the company’s announced planned investment in Ohio since 2015 to more than $23B by the end of 2030. “As reliance on digital services continues to grow, so does the importance of data centers; they are critical to today’s modern economy,” said Governor DeWine. “AWS’s substantial investment in Ohio will help keep our state at the forefront of the global technology.”