Amazon Web Services (AWS) had said it will plough £8bn into its UK data centre infrastructure over the next five years.

The funding will support the building, operations, and maintenance of data centres. The precise locations of the new data centres has not been revealed, but the plan is to place them to support demand in London and “areas to the west”. The government is also in discussions with AWS about investments in other locations across the UK.

Since 2022, AWS has invested £3bn in facilities in London and Manchester. It is evidently money well spent with the hyperscaler continuing to grow strongly in the UK (if slower than historic highs). This is against a backdrop of a shrinking total software and IT services market in 2023 (our latest full year analysed).

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