Amazon Web Services — Ohio Region AI Campus (us-east-2)

Amazon Web Services’ Ohio region (us-east-2) is anchored in New Albany, just northeast of Columbus. AWS launched the region in 2016 and has continuously expanded, making the Columbus metro area one of the largest AWS infrastructure concentrations in the United States. Multiple large data center campuses span thousands of acres across Licking County and Franklin County.

The Ohio region hosts AWS AI workloads including Bedrock (large language model APIs), SageMaker training jobs, and early Trainium and Inferentia deployments. Ohio was selected for its access to affordable electricity, abundant land, favorable tax incentives from the Columbus Region Jobs Growth Initiative, and good connectivity along the I-70 corridor.

Amazon has committed to investing over $7.8 billion in Ohio data center infrastructure and has signed renewable energy agreements with wind and solar projects across the state. The New Albany campus includes some of the largest AWS buildings ever constructed, with individual structures exceeding one million square feet of floor space. Ohio’s economic development partnerships have made it one of the most active US data center construction markets of 2024–2026.