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It’s a 17-year timeline, but Amazon Web Services’ choice to bet $35 billion on data center campus development at multiple locations in Virginia counts all the same. Do a little math and the company’s data center investment in Virginia will come to $70 billion over 34 years.

The news was announced in late January by Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin. A release from his office said, “Numerous localities in the Commonwealth are under consideration and will be decided at a later date.”

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