Why it matters
The strategic read
Adds another hyperscale anchor to rural Missouri's emerging AI and cloud infrastructure corridor, near the separate Google New Florence and Nebius Independence buildouts already in the Deal Room. The receipt is especially useful because it ties a $10B campus to explicit large-load ratepayer protections: Amazon says it will pay 100% of the costs to connect and serve the data center, while working with Ameren Missouri under the state's large-load tariff framework.
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What was disclosed
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Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe announced on June 15, 2026 that Amazon plans to invest $10B to construct a new state-of-the-art data-center campus in Montgomery City.
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The project is expected to create 400 new direct jobs and thousands of construction jobs.
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Montgomery County estimates the investment will generate hundreds of millions of dollars in new property-tax revenue over the next 25 years.
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Amazon said the project supports increasing global demand for secure, reliable and scalable cloud computing infrastructure.
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Amazon is committing more than $7M in community contributions, including $3M for local emergency dispatch services, more than $1M for a community gathering space at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds and $3M in community programs.
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The Missouri release says Amazon has worked with Ameren Missouri and will pay 100% of the costs to provide electric service to the new campus, including all grid-connection costs, with no incentives or discounts on electric rates.
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The release cites Missouri Senate Bill 4, requiring large-load customers such as data centers to pay rates reflecting their share of costs and preventing unjust or unreasonable cost-shifting to other ratepayers.
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Amazon is also working with Arable Labs on irrigation-efficiency technology expected to reduce water use by 100M gallons.
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DCD reported the campus as Project Green on roughly 1,000 acres near New Florence / Montgomery County, with AWS planning two phases: eight data-center buildings in phase one and potentially 13 additional similar buildings in phase two.
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DCD also reported that Amazon is working with Ameren Missouri to avoid passing costs to other ratepayers and has invested in a 138 MW renewable-energy project in Missouri.
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What is known—and what is not
Near-primary Missouri Governor release with Amazon executive quote and Amazon media contact, plus DCD site and filing context. Public materials disclose the $10B investment amount, campus geography, job and tax-revenue framing, community contributions, Ameren / large-load cost-responsibility posture, water-efficiency work, and DCD-reported Project Green site/phasing context. Public materials do not disclose final AWS campus design, utility-service agreement, detailed tariff filing, power-delivery schedule, interconnection queue status, PPA or generation contracts, construction/EPC awards, data-center MW by phase, server/GPU allocation, financing structure, water permits, tax-incentive documents, or workload/customer allocation.