AWS to invest $11 billion in Georgia to expand infra for gen AI

However, AWS noted that it plans to make its data center in Thailand “flexible enough to leverage GPUs (graphics processing units) for traditional workloads or artificial intelligence and machine learning models.”

And AWS isn’t the only cloud provider increasing its investment in AI-enabled data centers. All competing cloud providers are investing in either upgrading or opening new data centers to capture most of the business from developers and users of large language models (LLMs).

Microsoft President Brad Smith said last week that the company is on track to invest about 80 billion dollars this fiscal year to build AI-enabled data centers.

Separately, AWS said it launched a new region in Thailand with three availability zones. Typically, AWS Regions are made up of Availability Zones, where infrastructure is located in separate geographic locations.

Thailand is the company’s fourteenth region in Asia Pacific, joining existing regions in Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Jakarta, Malaysia, Melbourne, Mumbai, Osaka, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo, as well as the Chinese regions Beijing and Ningxia.

AWS announced plans to build 15 more availability zones and five more regions in Germany, Taiwan, Mexico, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and New Zealand.