Amazon Pledges Nearly $40 Billion to Expand AI Data-Center Infrastructure in Spain

By Mauro Orru

BARCELONA--Amazon.com said it would invest 33.7 billion euros ($39.82 billion) through 2035 to bolster its cloud and data-center infrastructure in Spain, the latest commitment from the tech company as it seeks to cash in on unrelenting demand for artificial intelligence.

Amazon Web Services, the group's cloud-computing arm, made the announcement at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, saying it was adding about 18 billion euros to a commitment of 15.7 billion euros that the company announced in 2024.

The increase shows that Amazon is aggressively pushing to expand its capabilities to gain an edge over rivals in the AI race, even as some investors cast doubt on the billions of dollars that tech companies are pouring into infrastructure upgrades and partnerships with AI startups.

Last month, Amazon said it expects $200 billion in capital spending this year, a nearly 60% increase from 2025. Amazon, Meta Platforms, Microsoft, Alphabet's Google and Oracle plan to spend more than $700 billion in total this year.

Amazon said the additional investment in Spain would help bolster its data-center infrastructure in Aragon--a landlocked region in the northeast of the country--that underpins part of AWS's AI and cloud capabilities in Europe.

AWS said it is planning to build a server manufacturing plant, a manufacturing fulfillment warehouse, and an AI and machine-learning server manufacturing and repair facility in Aragon to support its data-center operations in Spain and Europe.

The company launched services in Aragon in late 2022 for users to directly store their data in Spain. A year later, it laid out plans for an independent sovereign cloud service in Europe, saying the project would help public sector organizations and customers in highly regulated industries to navigate evolving data-storage requirements.

The announcement marks the latest spending commitment from Amazon in its efforts to expand operations overseas. In October, it said it would invest more than 1.4 billion euros in the Netherlands to bolster its cloud-computing and retail businesses in the country. It also pledged 17.8 billion euros through 2040 to shore up its logistics network and cloud infrastructure in Germany.

Write to Mauro Orru at mauro.orru@wsj.com

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March 02, 2026 09:40 ET (14:40 GMT)