By Alistair Barr
Publication Date: 2026-05-18 17:32:00
Ahead of Nvidia earnings later this week, I suggest you check out an Amazon AI project. The codename is Titus and it reveals Nvidia’s true power.
The cloud giant says it’s named after the Roman Emperor Titus Flavius Vespasianus, who completed the Colosseum, one of history’s earliest examples of gigantic modular architecture. The Colosseum’s repeating, self-supporting arches enabled rapid construction and scalable design, concepts Amazon wants to apply to next-generation AI data centers.
That’s the official explanation. But the name carries deeper resonance. Like the Shakespearean general, Titus Andronicus, Amazon faces a dangerous balancing act between loyalty and self-preservation.
Business Insider’s Eugene Kim revealed that “Titus” is an initiative to future-proof Amazon data centers for Nvidia’s coming wave of monster GPU systems, including GB200 racks and beyond. Internal documents show Amazon redesigning power systems, liquid cooling, server layouts, and deployment…
