Amazon is making good on its pledge earlier this year to invest $35B in new data centers in Virginia—by expanding its footprint into rural areas of the state that previously have been untouched by the burgeoning data processing sector.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has unveiled an $11B expansion into Louisa County, a sparsely populated county in the Central Piedmont region of Virginia. The county is a couple of hours south of Loudoun County, epicenter of the largest data center hub in North America.
An estimated 90% of the land in Louisa County is either undeveloped or used for agriculture and ranching.
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