Amazon Data Center Tally Tops 900 Amid AI Frenzy, Documents Show !

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Amazon’s cloud business, Amazon Web Services (AWS), actually operates more than 900 data center facilities in over 50 countries, according to internal documents reviewed by Bloomberg and SourceMaterial. Yahoo Finance+2GuruFocus+2

While AWS is best known for its large, high-profile data center campuses in regions like Virginia and Oregon, a large portion of this network comes from third-party (“colocation”) facilities. Yahoo Finance+1 As of early 2024, AWS leased space in more than 440 colocation data centers, which provided around 20% of its compute capacity. GuruFocus+2Yahoo Finance+2 In addition, it uses over 220 “edge” locations — smaller sites often located inside telecom hubs near major cities — to provide low-latency access. Yahoo Finance+2Tech Startups+2

AWS does not publicly disclose the precise locations of most of its data centers, citing security and competitive reasons. Yahoo Finance The newly surfaced documents give unprecedented insight into the scale and strategy behind Amazon’s infrastructure — especially as demand for AI computing power continues to soar. Yahoo Finance+1

Experts say this mix of owned data center campuses + leased colos + edge sites gives AWS flexibility and agility to scale where demand is growing, without always building new mega-campuses. Tech Startups Nic Benders, a strategist at New Relic, noted:

“There are big data centers everyone talks about, but the reality is there are also these smaller cloud resources that are invisible.” Yahoo Finance

🔍 Why It Matters

  • AI Boom Driving Growth: The AI frenzy is pushing major cloud providers — especially AWS — to massively scale their infrastructure to handle huge compute workloads.

  • Operational Flexibility: By heavily relying on colocation and edge facilities, Amazon can expand quickly and geographically without the long lead times of building new owned data centers.

  • Strategic Location: Edge locations help AWS get closer to customers (especially in dense metro areas), improving performance for latency-sensitive applications.

  • Opaque Footprint: The fact that AWS doesn't fully disclose where all its data centers are makes it hard for competitors, analysts, and regulators to fully map its infrastructure — giving it a strategic advantage.

  • Energy & Cost Implications: More facilities mean more energy use and higher CAPEX/OPEX, raising questions about sustainability, especially as global AI demand grows.

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