Amazon to invest £8bn in hyperscale datacentres

Cloud computing giant Amazon Web Services has today confirmed it plans to invest £8bn to build the next-generation of hyperscale datacentres in the UK.
AWS said the five-year datacentre investment plan would support around 14,000 jobs per year at local businesses, including those across the supply chain in construction, facility maintenance, engineering and telecommunications, as well as well as other jobs within the broader local economy.
The location of the new datacentres has not been d