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Amazon Ramps Up Data Center Capacity to Meet AI Demand
Amazon.com is looking at aggressive expansion of its data center capacity globally to power artificial intelligence tasks, Bloomberg News reported Friday. The world’s largest seller of rented computing power and data storage, Amazon Web Services, opened a cluster of data centers in Mexico earlier this year, CEO Matt Garman said Friday in an interview with Bloomberg Television. The cloud division is also building out new facilities in Chile, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia and Taiwan.
In common with rivals Microsoft Corp. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Amazon is racing to boost its capacity. Garman said it was working with Nvidia to expand its stock of the leading AI chipmaker’s latest GB200 semiconductors, now available for AWS customers to test.
“Demand is strong,” he told Bloomberg.
Amazon has said its AI franchise is on pace to bring in multiple billions of dollars over the course of a full year.
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