Amazon Web Services is investing $6 billion to construct a third data center campus in Louisiana, adding to the company's expanding footprint as demand for AI infrastructure surges globally, according to a report published by CRN. The new facility brings AWS's complete data center commitment in the state to roughly $18 billion, following a $12 billion announcement in February. The expansion comes as Amazon pursues its $220 billion capital expenditure plan for 2026, with AI infrastructure at the center of the spending push.
The new campus will be located in Shreveport, in Louisiana's northwest region, at Resilient Technology Park—a 313-acre industrial site. Once all three campuses reach full operation, AWS expects to create up to 750 permanent positions, with an additional 2,500 jobs supported across the wider community. The company also plans to direct up to $400 million toward public water infrastructure serving the three facilities. AWS is partnering with Stack Infrastructure, a Denver-based global data center developer and operator, on the project. Meanwhile, AWS posted $42.2 billion in revenue during the second quarter of 2026, pushing the cloud division to a record $169 billion annual run rate.
"AWS is now controlling essentially every layer underneath AI models, including data centers and power," said Randall Hunt, chief technology officer at AWS Premier Partner Caylent. Keith Klein, director of data center supply solutions at AWS, wrote on LinkedIn that the project "goes beyond infrastructure" and is "about creating opportunity and being a good neighbor." The report notes that Hunt sees AWS pouring hundreds of billions into supplying everything required in the AI era, including housing for AI models, with the company's own Trainium and Graviton chips, SageMaker and Bedrock models, and AgentCore for operating agents representing a major advantage for AWS and its channel partners.
The spending spree reflects AWS's bet that AI demand will remain strong well into the future, with America's data center capacity projected to double over the next three years thanks to hyperscalers like AWS and Google. More than 700 U.S.-based data center facilities are currently in the pipeline, set to deliver 45 gigawatts of fresh capacity in the coming years, according to data from Synergy Research Group. Hunt told CRN that most AI capacity right now is under contract for at least five years, and AWS is spending heavily for a return curve that's highly favorable. Amazon raised its 2026 capital expenditure plan from $200 billion to $220 billion last month, concentrating on AI infrastructure such as data centers.
Caylent's Hunt sees Amazon building new AI compute capacity at a moment when demand sits at an all-time peak with no indication of slowing through 2027 and beyond. Hunt described AWS's position as different from competitors who excel at one layer and resell the rest, with AWS now controlling nearly every layer beneath AI models, from data centers to power. The company hasn't yet disclosed the expected IT and power capacity for the new Shreveport campus. For partners and customers, the infrastructure build-out positions AWS to meet sustained AI workload growth without the bottlenecks that constrained earlier waves of cloud adoption. The scale of the investment signals that hyperscalers view AI infrastructure not as a short-term trend but as a foundational shift requiring physical assets locked in for years, not quarters.