{"id":994588,"date":"2026-02-25T10:16:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T04:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=994588"},"modified":"2026-02-25T11:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T05:53:08","slug":"amazon-plans-12-billion-louisiana-data-center-buildout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/25\/amazon-plans-12-billion-louisiana-data-center-buildout\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon plans $12 billion Louisiana data center buildout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon said it expects to invest $12 billion in Louisiana as part of a plan to build data centers in the Pelican State. <\/p>\n<p>The Seattle-based online retailer said the data center buildout, in northwest Louisiana, will create 540 full-time jobs, as well as \u200cadditional jobs it \u2060claims \u2060will help support the facilities, such as electricians and heating, ventilation and air-conditioning technicians. <\/p>\n<p>As \u200bpart of its fourth-quarter earnings report this month, Amazon announced an expected $200 billion \u200bthis year in capital expenditures, a sharp increase from 2025&#8217;s $131 billion. Its shares fell after that announcement. They are down 9.4% year to date, \u200bincluding a 2.3% drop on Monday to $205.27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon said it expects to invest $12 billion in Louisiana as part of a plan to build data centers in the Pelican State. The Seattle-based online retailer said the data center buildout, in northwest Louisiana, will create 540 full-time jobs, as well as \u200cadditional jobs it \u2060claims \u2060will help support the facilities, such as electricians and heating, ventilation and air-conditioning technicians. As \u200bpart of its fourth-quarter earnings report this month, Amazon announced an expected $200 billion \u200bthis year in capital expenditures, a sharp increase from 2025&#8217;s $131 billion. Its shares fell after that announcement. They are down 9.4% year to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=994588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}