Amazon announces investment of US$5 billion in Querétaro

QUERETARO - Amazon will invest US$5 billion in Querétaro to develop a data center; this amount will mean the contribution of US$10 billion to Mexico's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) over the next 15 years, starting in 2025, and the creation of more than 7,000 jobs per year, informed the Secretary of Economy, Marcelo Ebrard.

“It is going to mean training, qualifying and giving opportunities to Mexican talent throughout the Amazon system worldwide. More or less, they are estimating that 400,000 people will be trained in Mexico, trained to manage a region so called, (digital region) because it is the set of data centers,” he said.

During President Claudia Sheinbaum's morning conference, Paula Bellizia, CEO for Latin America of Amazon Web Services (AWS), pointed out that AWS is the cloud computing service, which is behind, for example, the processing of medical analysis, videoconferencing services, every online purchase, every banking transaction, or even every movie watched on live streaming platforms.

“Today we are here with you, hand in hand with the President, to launch the operations of our data centers in Mexico; that is, to inaugurate the infrastructure of Amazon's cloud computing services to be offered from here, from Mexico,” he said.

The executive assured that the announced investment is much more than the construction of state-of-the-art data centers; it is a decisive and sustained commitment to the socioeconomic growth and digital future of the country and of all Mexicans.

She added that the launch of an AWS region will contribute in a tangible way to improve a country as diverse, as complex, as large as Mexico, because beyond the technological infrastructure, its vision is to be a catalyst for national progress because it will have many benefits, such as the contribution of more than US$10 billion to the national GDP and the support of highly qualified and full-time jobs.

In addition, Paula Bellizia added, the investment will drive the adoption of artificial intelligence and a recent study points to cloud-enabled artificial intelligence contributing more than US$19 billion to the country's economy through 2030 and productivity gains from artificial intelligence are estimated to generate US$900 billion per worker, also through 2030.

She mentioned that AWS will continue with the training of Mexican talent and for this purpose will collaborate with educational institutions in the country that have a national presence, such as the National College of Technical Professional Education (Conalep) and the National Technological Institute of Mexico (Tecnológico Nacional de México).