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TNB Tech Minute: Amazon Will Spend Nearly $40 Billion to Expand AI Infrastructure in Spain

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

Tech News, News

4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2026

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Plus: DraftKings is planning to introduce prediction markets to its app. And investors are returning to tech stocks amid the fallout of U.S. attacks on Iran. Danny Lewis hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:31.5

Here's your afternoon TNB Tech Minute for Monday, March 2nd. I'm Danny Lewis for the Wall Street Journal.

0:39.1

Amazon is pledging to invest nearly $40 billion to expand its cloud and artificial intelligence data center

0:44.0

infrastructure in Spain. The company's cloud computing arm, Amazon Web Services, says it is planning

0:49.7

to build a server manufacturing plant, a manufacturing fulfillment warehouse, and an AI and machine learning

0:55.6

server manufacturing and repair facility to support its data center operations. The new sites

1:01.3

will be built in Aragon, a region in Spain's northeast that Amazon already uses to bolster its European

1:06.5

services. Draft Kings is planning to integrate prediction markets into its core sports betting app.

1:12.6

The new super app will allow users to bet on combos, the equivalent of parlayes in sports betting,

1:18.4

a lucrative product that rolls multiple bets into one. The company expects prediction markets

1:23.3

to have higher margins than traditional sports betting, it said during an investor day event.

1:27.6

It will also be hyper-focused on personalization through AI and data collection.

1:32.6

Draft King says the new app will be ready in time for the NCAA's March Madness Basketball Tournament later this month.

1:39.4

And while some investors spent the day trying to digest the fallout of U.S. attacks on Iran,

1:44.4

others found value in tech stocks like NVIDIA, Palantir, and Intuit.

1:49.0

That's after months of investors fretting about whether tech companies are overspending on artificial intelligence,

1:54.0

or if AI will displace traditional software providers.

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