A tech commentator has weighed in on the arrival of Amazon's new Auckland-based data centres, which are set to be built in Auckland.

The tech giant's investing $7.5 billion dollars into the centres, which go live today.

It'll allow New Zealand customers to store data locally and speed up cloud-based services.

Peter Griffin joined the Afternoons team to explain further.

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