It takes quite a pivot to switch from being the largest developer of mega-warehouses in the U.S. to pouring billions of dollars into new data centers, but Amazon clearly has the resources to do both.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is investing $10B to build two data center campuses in Madison County, MS, in what state officials say will be the largest single capital investment in the history of Mississippi.

The commitment in the Magnolia State is the fourth data center mega-investment AWS has announced over the past twelve months, including a $35B data processing growth pipeline in Virginia and $7.8B earmarked for Ohio data centers.

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