Amazon Web Services has informed Montgomery County, Missouri commissioners of plans to expand its data center presence in the area by up to 15 new buildings on 890 acres of land near Danville, separate from a 1,000-acre campus already under development in New Florence. AWS has not yet acquired the Danville-area property, and construction is expected to begin sometime between 2027 and 2029 if the project is approved. The New Florence campus, in which AWS said in June it would invest $10 billion, is planned in two phases totaling up to 21 buildings. Separately, AWS is holding an open house in Posey County, Indiana, where CenterPoint Energy has excess grid capacity, to discuss an early-stage data center project near Evansville.
The scale of AWS's expansion in Montgomery County, up to 15 buildings on 890 acres alongside a separately planned 21-building, $10 billion campus, points to Missouri becoming a significant node in Amazon's infrastructure buildout outside traditional markets. The simultaneous exploration of Posey County, Indiana, where available grid capacity is cited as a key draw, illustrates how excess utility capacity is increasingly a primary site-selection factor for hyperscalers.
AWS expanding its data center presence into Montgomery County, Missouri represents a notable hyperscaler construction push into a less-saturated US market. Named hyperscaler and a specific US location make this a clear, trackable construction story.