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Posted on 06/10/2025 10:57:38 AM PDT by Red Badger
Planned investment will establish multiple innovation campuses, create 1,250 jobs, and support new workforce development training programs and local community projects.
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Amazon plans to invest at least $20 billion in Pennsylvania to expand its AI infrastructure, creating 1,250 new high-skilled jobs and supporting thousands more in the AWS data center supply chain.
Since 2010, Amazon has invested $26 billion in Pennsylvania, contributing more than $26 billion to the Commonwealth’s GDP and supporting 27,000 full and part-time jobs, as well as 37,100 indirect jobs across various facilities.
Amazon will bring training and education programs, including data center technician programs, fiber optic fusion splicing workshops, and STEM awareness and learning opportunities for K-12 schools, to local communities.
Amazon is launching the Amazon Northeastern Pennsylvania Community Fund with a $250,000 commitment for grants up to $10,000 supporting STEM education, sustainability and environment, digital skills, culture and heritage, health and well-being.
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These latter day multinational corporate monsters need a good divestiture.
Amazon should be forced to divest its cloud business.
Google shouldn’t have YouTube.
Apple doesn’t mean broadcast media.
One thing I can say in praise of Elon Musk is that he keeps the pieces of his empire fairly discrete.
Luckily Pennsylvania is trending a little more red these days but sadly this Amazon will likely push Penn back a little more blue.
I wouldn’t want Amazon in my town.
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Unless AI tech can get up every half-hour or less, and go to the bathroom for this old lady so I don’t have to, there’s nothing it can do for me that I can’t do myself.
LOL. $20 Billion will hire about 35 people to work here.
I think that figure is just for the building , land and equipment................
How many coal/natural gas generating plants are they going to build so they can feed these energy vampires?
Salem Township in Luzerne County is literally in the middle of nowhere. Falls Township in Bucks is opposite Trenton NJ. Both areas ar adjacent to major rivers.
“ How many coal/natural gas generating plants are they going to build so they can feed these energy vampires?”
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They will need them. Already Pennsylvania power generation is stressed because of Virginia’s “sucking” a significant and rapidly increasing amount of the electrical power generated in Pennsylvania. This is because Virginia has its own AI facilities being built but the power generation capability to support those AI facilities ARE NOT BEING BUILT IN VIRGINIA. They depend upon power imported from neighboring states.
IMHO, this is unfair to Pennsylvania ratepayers.
Now why would an energy hog like a server farm for Amazon locate in a state with only 4% “renewable” unreliable energy?
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