Amazon to spend $20B on data centers in Pennsylvania, including one next to a nuclear power plant

Harrispurg, Pennsylvania (AP) – Amazon said on Monday that it will spend $ 20 billion on two collections of the Data Center in Pennsylvania, including one who is building alongside a nuclear power plant that drew federal audit on an order to maintain it mainly at the power plant.

Kevin Miller, Vice president of International Data Centers at Amazon Cloud Computing, Amazon Web Services, Associated Press, told the company that the company will build another complex for the data center north of Philadelphia.

One data center is built next to the Suskoyana Nuclear Energy Station in northeastern Pennsylvania, where it intends to obtain its power. The other will be in Fairles Hills on logistical campus, the Keystone Trade Center, as it was one day an American steel mill. Amazon said that the data center will get energy through the electricity network.

At a press conference in Birwick under the power station, the governor of state Josh Shapiro called it the largest investment in the private sector in the history of Pennsylvania. He said that the two announcement is “the beginning only” because its administration is working with Amazon in the projects of the additional data center in Pennsylvania.

While critics say that data centers employ a relatively few people and carry a little punch in the long run, their advocates say they require a large number of construction jobs for construction, spending huge sums in regional sellers and generating strong tax revenues for local governments.

Shapiru described the work that will keep construction trading members occupied with the construction of Amazon data centers, and the technical jobs that will wait for graduates of the regional colleges and millions of dollars in real estate taxes that will flow to schools and local governments.

“For a long time, we have seen talents throughout the state of Pennsylvania, which were caught and left behind,” Shapiro said at the press conference. “No more. Now is our time to rebuild and invest those societies. This investment begins in Pennsylvania in the opposite of this trend.”

Pennsylvania will provide tens of millions of dollars in incentives, and it is usually a major element in the data center deals, as countries compete for large facilities that hope to be an economic reward.

The Shapiru administration said it will spend $ 10 million to pay for training classes and facilities in schools, community colleges and union halls to meet the demand for data centers.

Amazon will also qualify for the exemption of the current sales tax in Pennsylvania to buy data center equipment, such as servers and routers, which is an exemption provided by most countries and is seen as a necessary matter for the state to compete.