Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: Does Amazon want to play us for fools?

Now, we need to talk about that Amazon announcement yesterday.

These guys have taken us for fools in this country. They've looked at us in New Zealand and they've gone, let's take these guys for fools.

That $7.5 billion wasn't new, it was already announced by Jacinda 4 years ago. It's not even actually a convincing number, because it looks like what they've done here is included their power bills.

Chris Lynch: Christopher Luxon confirms global technology giant Amazon will invest $7.5 billion in New Zealand

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has confirmed global technology giant Amazon will invest $7.5 billion in New Zealand.

Amazon Web Services, the corporation’s cloud computing arm, will establish data centres in New Zealand, a move Luxon described as unprecedented.