Amazon has announced it will create more than 3,000 jobs and invest 1.2 billion euros in France, mostly in artificial intelligence, cloud services and logistics.
Faster deliveries
The 3,000 new jobs are in addition to the 2,000 that were already announced for 2024, French CEO Frédéric Duval said. The company chose the Choose France summit in Versailles, which aims to promote foreign investment, to announce it will invest over 1.2 billion euros to develop its cloud services (AWS) with generative AI.
In the southern Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, the e-commerce giant is also continuing to build its parcel logistics. Amazon already has 35 distribution centres in France, but the company aims to reduce the carbon footprint of deliveries while improving the customer experience by opening even more warehouses.
France is becoming a hub for AI, with Meta and Google’s AI research centres also in the country. Amazon says it has invested more than twenty billion euros in its French operations since 2010 and employs more than 22,000 permanent staff there.
