(Reuters) -Amazon.com said on Monday it would invest up to $50 billion to expand artificial intelligence and supercomputing capacity for U.S. government customers, in one of the largest cloud infrastructure commitments targeted at the public sector.
The project, expected to break ground in 2026, will add nearly 1.3 gigawatts of new AI and high-performance computing capacity across AWS Top Secret, AWS Secret and AWS GovCloud regions through new data centers equipped with advanced compute and networking systems.
One gigawatt of computing power is roughly enough to power about 750,000 U.S. households on average.
“This investment removes the technology barriers that have held government back,” Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman said.
AWS is already a major cloud provider to the U.S. government, serving more than 11,000 government agencies.
Tech companies, including OpenAI, Alphabet and Microsoft, are pouring billions of dollars to build…
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