AWS data center expansion plans and demand for AI workloads

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Scaling business and orgs | Engineering innovation | Building products

There continues to be significant interest and speculation about the data center expansion plans of AWS and other cloud providers, so I thought I’d share some of our thinking here. First and foremost, we continue to see strong demand for both Generative AI and foundational workloads on AWS. We have almost two decades of experience delivering data center capacity to meet customer demands, when and where they need it. That experience has taught us to consider multiple solutions in parallel. Some options might end up costing too much, while others might not deliver when we need the capacity. Other times, we find that we need more capacity in one location and less in another. This is routine capacity management, and there haven’t been any recent fundamental changes in our expansion plans. Fortunately for our customers, they’re able to focus on their business and leave these details to us.

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3mo

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Yudhveer Thakkar

BCG| Helping utilities, IPP, power providers deliver reliable energy to hyperscale data centers | Grid strategy | Interconnection | Energy infrastructure

3mo

Rob Wydareny Tom Harrison thought to draw your attention to Kevin’s post here that says AWS continues to be bullish on investments in Data Centers and always considers multiple sites in parallel

Uthayakumar Nadar

Linux System Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)

3mo

Nice 👍

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Waseem Ahmad

Data Center Business Development | Sustainable Data Centers | Digital Substation | Green Energy | Business Consulting & Advisory | Driving Business Growth Through Innovative Strategies

3mo

Helpful insight, Kevin

Chris-Markus Kratz

Global Director Automotive & Manufacturing

3mo

Spot on Kevin Miller

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Thomas Wigg

Managing Director at Morgan Stanley, Technology Sector Specialist

3mo

🤔

Austin Gilmore

Web Developer at University of Texas Arlington Libraries

3mo

Thanks for the clarification, Kevin. There’s been a lot of talk suggesting that AI growth and infrastructure are slowing down—but you’ve just put those rumors to rest. Much appreciated!

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Jared Drewniak

Experienced Technical Leader | Data Center Hyperscale Operations | ML & AI Host Platforms | Broadcast & Media Systems

2mo

It's such a cool challenge to work to build and adapt to this landscape. It wasn't that long ago that predictive evolutionary algos were these little curiosities; can't wait to see what folks build on this new silicon infra.

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Mark Guymon

Cloud/Hyperscale Strategy, Development, Sales/BD, Operations

3mo

Appreciate the insight, Kevin. It’s clear that proactively managing a range of delivery options is part of disciplined capacity planning and optimization—not an indicator of a shift in overall strategy or demand. Helpful to have that context, especially as some in the industry seem to be reading too much into what are really just smart operational adjustments. Thank you for cutting through the noise.

Jason O'Conaill

Country Director of Business Development at Green Mountain Data Centres | Driving Strategic Growth in Data Centres, AI & Sustainable Digital Infrastructure | Industry Speaker & Thought Leader”

3mo

Thanks for the insight Kevin.

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