Corning CEO Wendell Weeks at Corning's cable factory in Hickory, North Carolina, on Jan. 9, 2026. Magdalena Petrova | CNBC Amazon is paying Corning billions of dollars for optical fiber to power and connect its rapidly expanding U.S. data centers, the latest megadeal featuring two companies at the center of the artificial intelligence boom. The agreement, announced Monday, will play out over several years and create 1,000 jobs at Corning's North Carolina factories, the companies said.