Amazon to spend $12 billion in Louisiana on AI data centers

An aerial view of an Amazon Web Services Data Center known as US East 1 in Ashburn, Virginia, U.S., October 20, 2025.Amazon said Monday it plans to spend $12 billion on new data center campuses in Louisiana and the infrastructure to power artificial intelligence and cloud computing.The campuses will be built in the Caddo and Bossier Parishes, in northwestern Louisiana. Amazon said it expects to create 540 full-time jobs at the data centers and support about 1,700 other roles that will serve the sites, such ...