Locator: 48681TECH.
Amazon: $10 billion (that's with a "B") investment, AI, North Carolina. Link here.
- total CAPEX for this one year (2025) $100 billion around the world for Amazon;
- specifics not provided
- North Carolina's annual budget, fiscal year 2024 - 2025: $30 billion
- North Carolina spends approximately $12 billion to fund K-12 public education
- when combining all sources of income (federal, state, local), North Carolina public school raked in $17 billion in 2022 - 2023.
North Carolina is one of seven states that are on the AI map.
American exceptionalism:
- Austin, TX: the new Silicon Valley; UT-Austin; Taylor, Texas, link here, Samsung;
- Arizona
- Utah
- Idaho
- Washington, Seattle
- Portland, OR: Intel
- Nashville, TN: medical AI.
- Virginia
- North Carolina
