A unit of global technology giant Amazon plans to invest $10 billion in a North Carolina cloud computing and artificial intelligence innovation center — one of the biggest investments in state history, state and local officials said Wednesday.

The project, fueled by increased demand for advanced cloud infrastructure and computing power, is expected to bring about 500 high-paying jobs to a 20-building, 800-acre campus in Richmond County.

Amazon Web Services — which supports companies across industries though cloud computing services — is planning the campus. As part of the project, AWS plans to build new data centers in the county, with computer servers, data storage drives, networking equipment and other technology infrastructure used for cloud computing and generative AI technologies, G

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