In short
- Amazon invests $ 10 billion in North Carolina to build data centers to support AI infrastructure, creating at least 500 highly skilled jobs.
- The company is said to also develop humanoid robots for liver tasks and tests them in a new “humanoid park” at the office in San Francisco.
- An expert said Decrypt that the scale of Amazon’s investment emphasizes how rising infrastructure costs run the risk of bringing ai -innovation exclusively into the hands of Big Tech.
Amazon announced on Wednesday that it records $ 10 billion to build new data centers in North Carolina as part of his efforts to expand artificial intelligence and cloud computing infrastructure.
The investment is expected to anchor new calculation -intensive workloads and help the capacity of Amazon to support companies in building with AI, the company said in a rack.
“The investment of Amazon is one of the largest in the history of the state and will bring hundreds of well -paid jobs and an economic boost for Richmond County,” said Governor of North Carolina, Josh Stein.
The investment of $ 10 billion is part of Amazon’s push to compete with other technical giants such as Google, Microsoft and Meta when building the infrastructure needed to support large-scale AI models.
The company said that the funds “will support the future of AWS data centers in the TAR Heel State”, which creates at least 500 highly skilled jobs in the process.
As part of the new Buildout, Amazon will finance training programs for technician on community lectures, STEM education in K-12 schools and career trajectories in the broadband infrastructure of fiber optic.
It also launched a $ 150,000 Richmond County Community Fund to support local projects in the development of workforce, sustainability and public health.
“The expansion of the AI infrastructure is positive news for the industry, but it emphasizes an important problem of this industry: costs,” said Leo Fan, co-founder of Blockchain-based AI-infrastructure company Cysic, said Decrypt.
“An investment of $ 10 billion shows the high costs of building, expanding and maintaining the AI infrastructure,” Fan said. “These prices for smaller developers or companies that may not have the funds to gain access to the infrastructure and hardware that is needed to offer the necessary computing power, discourage innovation.”
Fan said that the investment yields economic benefits, but warned that it could lead to “the stronger concentration of all innovative AI work in the hands of Big Tech”, which he thinks could block broader innovation.
Amazon builds ‘Humanoid Park’
The company is developing AI software for humanoid robots that can ultimately process liver tasks, according to a report Through The informationwith reference to an unnamed source.
Amazon reportedly built a “humanoid park”, an indoor obstacle course in one of the offices of San Francisco, where the robots are tested.
Although the company did not respond publicly, Amazon is said to be planning to use hardware of third parties during early tests.
“The Movement of Amazon Validates where the Crypto-AI room was built: permissionless intelligence supported by powerful infrastructure,” said Abhay, founder and CEO of Dapplooker AI told Decrypt.
The AI ambitions of Amazon have also been expanded to the media, where the company has been completed A multi -year license agreement Last Thursday with The New York Times To bring his journalism, recipes and sports content to Alexa and his own AI models.
Edited by Sebastian Sinclair
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