Amazon recently announced an investment of up to $50 billion to improve the AI and supercomputing capabilities of Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) U.S. government customers. This investment also includes new data centres designed specifically for federal agencies.
The project is set to break ground in 2026 and will add nearly 1.3 gigawatts of AI and supercomputing capacity by building data centres with advanced compute and networking technologies across AWS Top Secret, AWS Secret and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.
AWS stated the buildout is meant to develop custom AI services, optimise datasets and improve workforce productivity. The cloud giant currently serves more than 11,000 government entities.
The investment supports US President Donald Trump’s AI action plan and other advanced computing initiatives, which aim to maintain technological leadership and national security in the US.
AWS CEO Matt Garman stated the investment will “fundamentally transform how federal agencies leverage supercomputing”. Companies such as Meta Platforms, Microsoft, Anthropic and OpenAI are racing to build out AI infrastructure to train their large language models, attain superintelligence or add more compute capabilities.
Source: Mobile World Live
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