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Amazon announced plans to invest up to $50 billion in artificial intelligence and supercomputing infrastructure dedicated to U.S. government customers, marking the largest commercial investment in purpose-built federal cloud computing capacity.
The expansion, scheduled to break ground in 2026, will add nearly 1.3 gigawatts of computing capacity across classified and unclassified government cloud environments operated by Amazon Web Services. The new data centers will deploy advanced compute and networking technologies across AWS's Top Secret, Secret, and GovCloud regions, serving all government classification levels.
Federal agencies will gain access to a suite of AI tools including Amazon's SageMaker for model training, Bedrock for deployment, and the company's Nova models, alongside third-party systems such as Anthropic's Claude and open-source foundation models. The infrastructure will support both AWS's proprietary Trainium AI chips and NVIDIA hardware.
The investment aims to compress government analysis timelines that currently span weeks or months into hours by integrating simulation modeling with AI systems. According to Amazon, research teams will be able to process decades of global security data across hundreds of variables in real-time, while defense and intelligence operations can automate threat detection from satellite imagery, sensor data, and historical patterns.
The company positioned the expansion as supporting missions ranging from autonomous systems development and cybersecurity to energy innovation and healthcare research. Amazon stated the investment aligns with priorities outlined in the administration's AI Action Plan and other federal advanced computing initiatives.
"Our investment in purpose-built government AI and cloud infrastructure will fundamentally transform how federal agencies leverage supercomputing," AWS CEO Matt Garman said. He added that the expansion would "remove the technology barriers that have held government back" and position the United States to lead in artificial intelligence.
AWS currently supports more than 11,000 government agencies through infrastructure it has developed since 2011, when it launched the first cloud platform designed specifically for government security and compliance requirements. The company became the first commercial provider accredited to support classified workloads in 2014 and expanded to cover all U.S. government data classifications—unclassified, secret, and top secret—by 2017.
The company has since added multiple regional expansions for government cloud infrastructure, creating geographically distributed capabilities for federal customers. Amazon emphasized that its experience with security, compliance, and governance tools allows agencies to focus on mission outcomes rather than managing on-premises systems.
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