{"id":186411,"date":"2024-03-30T16:26:49","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T21:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/amazon-reportedly-to-spend-150b-to-build-data-centers-needed-for-ai-boom-get-closer-to-customers"},"modified":"2024-03-30T16:26:49","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T21:26:49","slug":"amazon-reportedly-to-spend-150b-to-build-data-centers-needed-for-ai-boom-get-closer-to-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/amazon-reportedly-to-spend-150b-to-build-data-centers-needed-for-ai-boom-get-closer-to-customers","title":{"rendered":"Amazon reportedly to spend $150B to build data centers needed for AI boom, \u2018get closer to customers\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/amazon-reportedly-to-spend-150b-to-build-data-centers-needed-for-ai-boom-get-closer-to-customers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Race Speeds Up. Wallets open up. Agi 2025\u20132029.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Amazon is reportedly planning to spend a whopping $150 billion within the next 15 years on building data centers \u2014 a move that will position the tech giant to be able to handle an expected explosion with artificial intelligence applications and other digital services.<\/p>\n<p>The spending spree, earlier reported on by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2024-03-28\/amazon-bets-150-billion-on-data-centers-required-for-ai-boom?srnd=homepage-americas&sref=MTy2GeXk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bloomberg<\/a>, will also allow Amazon to maintain its top spot in the cloud services market, where it holds roughly twice the share of No. 2 player Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re expanding capacity quite significantly,\u201d said Kevin Miller, a vice president at AWS, or Amazon Web Services, Amazon\u2019s cloud computing subsidiary used by upwards of 1.45 million businesses, according to an internal report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Race Speeds Up. Wallets open up. Agi 2025\u20132029. Amazon is reportedly planning to spend a whopping $150 billion within the next 15 years on building data centers \u2014 a move that will position the tech giant to be able to handle an expected explosion with artificial intelligence applications and other digital services. The spending spree, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}