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Amazon digs deep for AI gold as copper mine partnership fuels massive data center expansion

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Amazon’s push to build massive artificial-intelligence data centers is now extending into Arizona, where a recently restarted copper mine is supplying industrial metal seen as increasingly critical to powering Big Tech’s AI infrastructure.On Thursday, The Wall Street Journal reported that Amazon Web Services (AWS) signed a two-year agreement with mining giant Rio Tinto’s Nuton venture to secure copper supplies tied to its expanding AI data centers.The Arizona mine outside Tucson — the Johnson Camp mine using Rio Tinto’s Nuton bioleaching technology — became one of the first new U.S. copper pro...