Amazon’s Quiet High-Tech Atlanta Expansion

Atlanta Business Chronicle staff writer Urvaksh Karkaria discusses Amazon’s increased high-tech operations in Atlanta.

Richard Drew / Associated Press file

Amazon has been quite public about the expansion of its distribution centers in the Atlanta area. But it has been much quieter about another expansion — in its high-tech operations.

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Atlanta Business Chronicle staff writer Urvaksh Karkaria examined Amazon’s increased high-tech operations in Atlanta, in an article that was part of a wider look at Amazon by the Business Chronicle and its affiliated publications around the nation.

On “Morning Edition,” Karkaria talked with host Denis O’Hayer about what he found and about how Amazon’s increased Atlanta presence might affect the region’s effort to attract Amazon’s second corporate headquarters.