Questions raised over Amazon's New Zealand data centre investment claims

Wednesday 3 September 2025 · 2 outlets · 2 reports · updated Wed 3 Sep 2025, 4:53pm

In this story Christopher Luxon, Amazon, Amazon Web Services

Amazon Web Services has announced a $7.5 billion plan involving data centres in New Zealand. While the project aims to provide cloud training to 100,000 people, new details have led to doubts regarding promised boosts to the country's GDP and employment.

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1. RNZWed 3 Sep 2025, 3:22pm

   Amazon and the case of the missing New Zealand data centres (opens in new tab)

2. NZ HeraldWed 3 Sep 2025, 4:53pm

   Amazon’s $7.5b NZ data centre plan questioned over job, GDP claims (opens in new tab)