Amazon’s largest AI data center is now operational in New Carlisle, Indiana, with half a million AWS Trainium 2 chips entirely devoted to powering OpenAI rival Anthropic. Just over a year ago, the site was nothing but cornfields.

Cipher Mining’s stock climbed up over 19% in early trading after the Bitcoin miner announced a $5.5 billion lease agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS), extending the rally that has made the Nasdaq-listed company one of the biggest beneficiaries of Wall Street’s growing appetite for AI-linked exposure.

With this increasing demand, AWS has been building out its data center capacity rapidly. According to Jassy, the company has added 3.8GW of power in the last 12 months. "To put that in perspective, we're now double the power capacity that AWS was in 2022, and we are on track to double again by 2027," Jassy said.

The commitment, announced by South Korea’s presidential office, deepens the ties between major US technology firms and the Korean market, which is rapidly emerging as a critical hub for AI development and hardware.

Partners with AWS to build fiber network connecting data centers for AI applications, expanding existing collaboration as AI demand grows.

On October 20, 2025, a glitch at an Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center in northern Virginia triggered more than 6.5 million website outages, disrupting

Under the Verizon AI Connect deal, Verizon will construct high-capacity, long-haul fiber routes to link AWS data centers, providing the high performance, low-latency network infrastructure needed for advanced AI workloads.

Microsoft said in a 22:49 UTC status report yesterday that its West Europe region, located in the Netherlands, was experiencing a "thermal event" and that some users might experience "service disruptions or degraded performance" across multiple services.