Top cloud storage and hosting giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) has pledged $11 billion towards the construction of several new datacenters in the US Midwest, in what the company is calling ‘the largest capital investment in the state’s history’.
In a press releaseannouncing the move, AWS said the deal is set to include $7 million worth of funding for community projects in and around St Joseph County, outside South Bend, Indiana – already an established base for Amazon’s cloud division, which has 26,000 employees in the state.
