Amazon to blow $11B on cluster of Indiana bit barns

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is adding $11 billion of datacenter capacity in St Joseph County outside South Bend, Indiana, the cloud giant announced Thursday.

Billed as the largest "largest capital investment in the state's history," the project will see the construction of several datacenters in that part of the US Midwest, and add at least 1,000 new jobs to Amazon's existing workforce of 26,000 in the state, the mega-corp said in a statement.

Alongside funding for the datacenters themselves, Amazon also touted the usual infrastructure and community investments aimed at winning goodwill and/or addressing skills shortages in the region. Amazon says it'll pump $7 million into improving roads around the facilities, $100,000 in grant funding for community projects, and offer workshops covering in-demand skills like fiber-optic splicing and datacenter management, as part of the build out.

Amazon hasn't disclosed how many datacenters ...