Amazon to invest over $5 billion in Mexico data centre

Amazon will invest more than $5 billion in a data centre in central Mexico, the country's government and the e-commerce giant said on Tuesday.

Announcing the investment alongside Mexican President Claudia Shcenteeinbaum, the director of Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Latin America, Paula Bellizia, said the planned centre demonstrated Amazon's "commitment to Mexico."

AWS is the world's biggest cloud computing company, with data centres scattered across the globe storing the flood of data from billions of smartphones, tablets and other connected devices.


With the emergence of generative AI making demand for data storage bigger than ever, Amazon has announced new projects around the world.

AWS already has a data centre in Brazil and has announced plans for another two in the Chilean capital Santiago.