Amazon.com Inc. today announced it plans to invest up to $50 billion to expand artificial intelligence and high-performance supercomputing infrastructure for the United States government.
The massive investment will add nearly 1.3 gigawatts of AI and supercomputing power across Amazon Web Services’ Top Secret, AWS Secret and AWS GovCloud through the construction and expansion of data centers with advanced compute and networking capabilities.
“We’re at such a critical point in AI, where it’s imperative for our country and the national security to have a great industry-leading infrastructure to drive AI and HPC research inside the government,” AWS Chief Executive Matt Garman said on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio.
AWS Secret and Top Secret are part of the company’s highly secure cloud capabilities for government agencies. These infrastructures provide secure and scalable cloud services for U.S. intelligence communities, the Department of…
