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.

Amazon said the investment is expected to create at least 500 high-skilled jobs while supporting thousands of other jobs in its Amazon Web Services data center supply chain.

Amazon announced plans Wednesday to invest $10 billion in North Carolina to expand its data center infrastructure to support AI and cloud