Amazon plans to invest up to $50 billion to expand its AI and supercomputing infrastructure for U.S. government agencies. The project, slated to begin in 2026, will add roughly 1.3 gigawatts of AI and high-performance computing capacity across AWS Top Secret, AWS Secret, and AWS GovCloud regions via new data centres. These data centres will feature advanced computing and networking technologies.
Federal agencies will gain access to a suite of AWS AI services, including Amazon SageMaker for model training, Amazon Bedrock for model deployment, and foundation models like Amazon Nova and Anthropic Claude. The new facilities will also be equipped with AWS Trainium AI chips and NVIDIA hardware. Amazon aims to accelerate discovery and decision-making across government missions, enabling faster scientific research modelling, quicker threat analysis, and more accurate forecasting.
AWS's CEO, Matt Garman, stated that this investment aims to remove technological barriers and further establish America's leadership in the AI era. The company supports over 11,000 government agencies and first launched government-specific cloud infrastructure in 2011.
