Amazon plans to spend $7.5 billion building a cluster of huge data centres in Auckland, due to open in 2024.
The tech giant says the Amazon Web Services build will create 1000 jobs, and add $10.8 billion to New Zealand’s GDP over a decade and a half.
AWS New Zealand head, Tim Dacombe-Bird told the Herald that the $7.5 billion was calculated over 15 years, and included the cost of building at least three data centre zones and stocking them with hardware, plus operating costs including utilities and salaries.
Amazon Web Services decided to base cloud computing data centres in Auckland because of the city’s telecommunications connections and skilled workforce, its country manager says.
Amazon’s cloud computing arm, Amazon Web Services (AWS), will spend $7.5 billion over 15 years building “world class computing infrastructure” in Auckland, the company announced on Thursday.
AWS’ New Zealand country manager Tim Dacombe-Bird said the country would join 25 other territories in which the company had established cloud computing data centres.
The company would build “a cluster” of at least three data centres in the city, he said. (NZ media)