Amazon Boosts Northwest Louisiana Data Center Investment to $18B With Third Shreveport Campus
Amazon Web Services announced construction of a third data center campus in northwest Louisiana, raising its planned regional investment from $12 billion to $18 billion, according to The Center Square. The new campus will be built at Resilient Technology Park in west Shreveport, a development-ready industrial site, joining two campuses already under construction in rural Caddo and Bossier parishes.
Shreveport Mayor Tom Arceneaux called the announcement “a win for the people of Shreveport,” citing the city’s water capacity and conservation planning. Construction of the Shreveport campus had been held up by litigation from three plaintiffs assisted by the Sierra Club Delta Chapter; the case remains before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. Amazon officials declined to comment on the litigation directly, but local officials said the company is now comfortable enough with its status to move ahead.
The Shreveport campus is expected to create 210 direct jobs and 499 indirect jobs, for roughly 709 total new positions once operational. STACK Infrastructure is the project developer. Amazon said the three-campus buildout will support up to 2,250 construction jobs for local contractors, skilled trades, and suppliers across the region.
“When we announced our investment in northwest Louisiana earlier this year, we made a promise: Amazon pays its own way, and the communities where we operate will be better off because we’re there,” said Keith Klein, Amazon’s director of Data Center Supply Solutions. “Increasing our planned investment to $18 billion means more good jobs for the region and more opportunities for local businesses.”
Amazon plans to invest up to $400 million in public water infrastructure across all three campuses and says it will fund all water and wastewater improvements the projects require, coordinating with local utilities to preserve capacity for existing customers. The company is also working with Southwestern Electric Power Company to fully fund new energy infrastructure and grid upgrades needed to serve the data centers.
What It Means for Subcontractors
- The jump to a third campus and $18B total investment extends the construction window for local trades well beyond the original two-site scope — civil, electrical, and mechanical subcontractors already working the Caddo and Bossier sites should watch for STACK Infrastructure’s Resilient Technology Park bid packages as the newest addition to the pipeline.
- Amazon’s $400 million water infrastructure commitment across all three campuses signals a substantial parallel scope for water and wastewater contractors, separate from the core data center build.
- The Southwestern Electric Power Company grid-upgrade funding points to transmission and substation work that will likely be bid separately from the data center EPC, similar to the utility-side packages FieldNews has tracked on other hyperscale campus buildouts.
- With litigation still active in the Second Circuit, contractors bidding into the Shreveport site specifically should factor in schedule risk tied to the appeal, even as the two other parishes’ campuses proceed unaffected.
