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

However, AWS did point out that it plans to make its Thailand data center “flexible enough to efficiently run GPUs (graphics processing units) for traditional workloads or AI and machine learning models.”

And AWS isn’t the only cloud services provider that is ramping up its investments into AI-enabled data centers. Rival cloud service providers are all investing in either upgrading or opening new data centers to capture a larger chunk of business from developers and users of large language models (LLMs). 

Last week, Microsoft president Brad Smith said that the company was on track to invest around $80 billion this fiscal year to build out AI-enabled data centers.

Separately, AWS said that it had launched a new region in Thailand with three availability zones. Typically, AWS Regions are composed of Availability Zones that place infrastructure in separate and distinct 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 Beijing and Ningxia China Regions.

AWS has announced plans to build out 15 more Availability zones and five more Regions in Germany, Taiwan, Mexico, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and New Zealand.