Amazon will invest $13 billion in the five years through 2029 to build data centers in Australia, the biggest ever investment by a global tech company in the country.

South Korea's SK Group will join hands with Amazon Web Services, know as AWS, the world's top cloud provider, to build a large-scale artificial intelligence data center in Ulsan, some 250 miles southeast of Seoul.

Amazon plans to invest about $13 billion to expand its Australian data center infrastructure, as it seeks to meet the boom in global demand for artificial-intelligence computing.