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Amazon's plan centers on roughly $220 billion in 2026 capital spending, mostly for AWS, to build the data centre capacity behind AI workloads. The article reports AWS growing 39% year over year and forecasts 40%+ growth in 2027 and 2028, but these are company projections, not results. For AI readers, the key question is whether enterprise AI demand will sustain returns on this infrastructure buildout, which investors have already questioned.
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AWS will be a $1T business, Jassy says — but first, it will spend big
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