Amazon’s North Carolina expansion will hire engineers, network, and security specialists, while boosting thousands of jobs in construction and supply chain.

Amazon plans to invest $10 billion toward building a campus in North Carolina to expand its cloud computing and artificial intelligence infrastructure, bringing a massive shot in the arm to a region where many textile and apparel jobs dried up a generation ago.

E-commerce giant Amazon will invest $10 billion in building data centers in Richmond County, about 100 miles southwest of Raleigh. Why it matters: Amazon's data centers, which will be used to power the company's artificial intelligence and cloud computing work,