Amazon Web Services (AWS) is in talks with the Italian government to invest billions of euros in expanding its local cloud data center presence.

Reuters reports that the company has yet to decide the size and scale of the investment, and could simply expand its existing Milan facility.

AWS first launched its cloud region in Italy back in 2020, and promised to invest €2 billion ($2.2bn) by 2029.

The company this year announced a €15.7bn ($17bn) data center investment in Spain, upgrading on a previously-pledged €2.5bn ($2.72bn) investment over 10 years.

AWS also plans to invest €7.8bn ($8.48bn) in Germany by 2050 for a European Sovereign Cloud.

In May, Amazon said that it expected "overall capital expenditures to meaningfully increase year over year in 2024, primarily driven by higher infrastructure CapEx to support growth in AWS, including generative AI."