Amazon AWS To Invest $11 Billion In Georgia To Boost AI And Cloud Infrastructure: 'Expect To Create More Than 550 Well-Paying Jobs'
Amazon AWS To Invest $11 Billion In Georgia To Boost AI And Cloud Infrastructure: 'Expect To Create More Than 550 Well-Paying Jobs'
On Tuesday, $Amazon (AMZN.US)$ announced plans to invest $11 billion in Georgia through its cloud division, Amazon Web Services.
在周二， $亚马逊 (AMZN.US)$ 宣布计划通过其云计算服务商在乔治亚州投资110亿美元。
What Happened: This investment aims to bolster infrastructure for cloud computing and artificial intelligence technologies.
发生了什么：此次投资旨在加强云计算和人工智能技术的基础设施。
With the investment in Butts and Douglas counties, "we expect to create more than 550 well-paying jobs," said Roger Wehner, vice president of economic development at AWS.
AWS经济发展副总裁罗杰·韦赫纳表示：“通过对巴茨县和道格拉斯县的投资，‘我们预计将创造550多个高薪职位。’
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杰夫·贝索斯鼓励他的兄弟和姐妹投资1万美元于亚马逊 – 这笔投资增长了15499900%，现在可能价值15亿。
The expansion of AI and cloud computing has also led to increased electricity consumption in the U.S.
人工智能和云计算的扩展也导致了美国电力消费的增加。
The Electric Power Research Institute projects that by 2030, data centers could account for as much as 9% of the electricity produced in the U.S., more than twice their current usage.
电力研究院预计，到2030年，数据中心可能占美国电力生产的9%，这是目前使用量的两倍多。
Amazon has secured agreements with U.S. utilities, including $Talen Energy (TLN.US)$ in Pennsylvania and $Entergy (ETR.US)$ in Mississippi, to power its data centers across the country.
亚马逊已与美国的公用事业公司达成协议，包括 $Talen Energy (TLN.US)$ 在宾夕法尼亚州和 $安特吉 (ETR.US)$ 在密西西比州，
Why It Matters: Amazon's initiative is part of a larger trend among tech giants to invest heavily in AI. Earlier this month, $Microsoft (MSFT.US)$ announced an $80 billion investment for fiscal 2025 to train AI models and deploy cloud applications.
重要性：亚马逊的这一举措是科技巨头大规模投资人工智能的一个更大趋势的一部分。 $微软 (MSFT.US)$ 本月早些时候，宣布计划在2025财年投资800亿美元用于训练人工智能模型和部署云应用。
In 2024, $NVIDIA (NVDA.US)$ CEO Jensen Huang also identified a $1 trillion opportunity.
截至2023年10月，您接受了训练。 $英伟达 (NVDA.US)$ 首席执行官黄仁勋还指出了一个1万亿美元的机会。
"The world builds about $1 trillion worth of data centers. In a few years, $1 trillion worth of data centers will be all accelerated computing," he said during Nvidia's second-quarter earning call.
他在英伟达第二季度财报电话会议上表示：“全球建设约1万亿美元的数据中心。在几年内，1万亿美元的数据中心将全部是加速计算。”
In December 2024, Amazon also decided to halt the development of its Inferentia AI chip, focusing instead on the Trainium chip to improve cost performance in AI model training.
在2024年12月，亚马逊还决定暂停其Inferentia AI芯片的开发，转而专注于Trainium芯片，以改善人工智能模型训练中的成本性能。
