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 Amazon to spend $20 billion on data centers in Pennsylvania | AP News

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Amazon said Monday that it will spend $20 billion on two data center complexes in Pennsylvania, including one it is building alongside a nuclear power plant

One data center is being built in  Berwick PA, next to northeastern Pennsylvania’s Susquehanna nuclear power plant, where it intends to get its power. 

The other will be in Fairless Hills at a logistics campus, the Keystone Trade Center, on what was once a U.S. Steel mill. Amazon said that data center will get its power through the electricity grid.

Amazon Doubles Down on AI Infrastructure with $30B in New U.S. Data Center Investments | Data Center Frontier

With $20 billion allocated to develop “AI innovation campuses” in Salem and Falls Townships, Pennsylvania, and another $10 billion to build out data center capacity in Richmond County, North Carolina, Amazon is sculpting a nationwide framework of cloud infrastructure to meet surging demand for generative and agentic AI at scale.

🧑‍🚀 AI Jobs Debate, Climate Wins & Amazon’s Massive Data Bet

Amazon is constructing a vast AI data center in Indiana to support Anthropic, spanning 1,200 acres and eventually housing 30 facilities. The site will draw 2.2 gigawatts of power and use millions of gallons of water annually. Amazon’s strategy favors simpler, in-house chips over NVIDIA’s. The project faces local opposition over its environmental impact.

AI for Audiobooks, by Audible from Amazon

Audible to use AI technology to produce audiobooks

"Audible is set to offer "end-to-end" AI production technology – including translation and narration – to publishers to create audiobooks. The audiobook company explained that it will work with publishers to produce audiobooks using AI at all points of the process.

Audible said it will "combine its experience producing audio stories with Amazon’s AI technology" to produce the audiobooks. The company explained that, in the coming months, publishers interested in the process will be able to choose one of two production pathways.

Audible added that publishers will be able to choose from more than 100 AI-generated voices in English, Spanish, French and Italian"

Audible Expands Catalog with AI Narration and Translation for Publishers @ Audible