Amazon said 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 aimed at the public sector.
The project, expected to begin in 2026, will add nearly 1.3 gigawatts of new AI and high-performance computing capacity to the AWS Top Secret, AWS Secret, and AWS GovCloud regions through new data centers equipped with advanced computing and networking systems.
One gigawatt of computing power is roughly enough to power about 750,000 American homes on average.
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“This investment eliminates the technological barriers that have held back Public Administrations,” said Matt Garman, CEO of Amazon Web Services.
AWS is already one of the main providers of cloud services to the US Administration, with more than 11,000 public organizations.
Tech companies including OpenAI, Alphabet and Microsoft are investing billions of dollars in building AI infrastructure, driving demand for the computing power needed for services.
Amazon’s initiative aims to provide federal agencies with greater access to a full suite of AI services from AWS. These include Amazon SageMaker for model training and customization, Amazon Bedrock for deploying AI models and agents, and foundational models such as Amazon Nova and Anthropic Claude.
With information from Reuters
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