Amazon has committed an additional $13 billion to expand its artificial-intelligence and cloud infrastructure in India as it doubles down on the world's most populous country.
This latest infusion brings Amazon's total planned investment in India to $48 billion between 2026 and 2030. The fresh capital will be used specifically to expand data center capacity in Mumbai and Hyderabad, Amazon said.
India has become the next frontier for hyperscalers, or tech giants building massive data centers to house cloud computing infrastructure. Amazon pledged to invest $35 billion in the country last year, around the same time Microsoft earmarked $17.5 billion of its own.
Alphabet-owned Google, another premier hyperscaler, announced in October that it would spend $15 billion over a five-year span to expand data-center capacity in southern India.
As for Amazon, the e-commerce giant plans to be "a long-term partner in India's growth story," CEO Andy Jassy said in a statement Thursday. The announcement coincided with Jassy's visit to New Delhi, where he met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Amazon's foothold in India goes back more than a decade. The company first entered the market with the launch of a price comparison site called Junglee in 2012, followed by a dedicated online shopping marketplace in 2013.
Its AI ambitions in the country, however, have gathered pace over the past few years, in line with an explosion of demand for the technology. As Amazon Web Services expanded its footprint in India, it began selling cloud-based AI and machine learning tools to local enterprises and government entities.
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