Image by Kate Baucherel from Pixabay
One month after Amazon announced it was cancelling its HQ2 plans in New York, the company says it’s planning an 800-employee strong expansion in Austin, Texas, the Austin Statesman reports.
According to the Statesman, the employees will be focused on Amazon’s software and hardware engineering, research science and cloud computing divisions.
Austin has a growing reputation as a tech hub, and the Statesman notes that it already employs over 6,600 people there. Apple also announced in December that it is spending $1 billion on a new campus in Austin which will house 5,000 employees.