Amazon will pour billions into a new project to build out artificial intelligence and supercomputing capabilities for government customers using Amazon Web Services, the company’s flagship cloud computing platform.
The company announced the up to $50 billion investment Monday, stating it is estimated to add nearly 1.3 gigawatts of AI and supercomputing capacity through new data centers. The project is expected to break ground in 2026, Amazon said, describing it as the “first-ever AI and high-performance computing (HPC) purpose-built infrastructure for the U.S. government.”
The infrastructure will support AWS’s government-tailored platform GovCloud, along with AWS Secret and AWS Top Secret Cloud, which handle classified information primarily for the intelligence community.
The move comes amid the Trump administration’s push to increase AI use in government, framing the issue as a matter of national security as other countries race to advance the…
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