Amazon announced that it will invest up to US$59 billion (A$91.37 billion) to expand AI and supercomputing capacity for United States government customers.
The project is set to break ground in 2026 and will add nearly 1.3 gigawatts of AI and supercomputing capacity across AWS Top Secret, AWS Secret, and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions by building data centres with advanced compute and networking technologies.
It will allow federal agencies to gain expanded access to AWS’s comprehensive AI services.
This includes Anthropic’s Claude family of models, Nvidia chips and Amazon’s custom Trainium AI chips.
AWS CEO Matt Garman said the new project will remove the technology barriers that have held the U.S. back in the past.
"Our investment in purpose-built government AI and cloud infrastructure will fundamentally transform how federal agencies leverage supercomputing,” Garman said.
“We're giving agencies expanded access to advanced AI capabilities that will enable them to accelerate critical missions from cybersecurity to drug discovery.”
AWS is already a major cloud provider for the U.S. government, serving more than 11,000 government agencies.
This follows similar announcements made by AWS competitors Anthropic and Meta to expand data centres in the U.S.
Oracle, OpenAI, and Softbank also announced a joint venture in January to invest up US$500 billion in AI infrastructure over the next four years.
Nvidia also announced expectations of higher fourth-quarter revenue a month after it announced a partnership to build supercomputers for the U.S. Department of Energy, a deal that saw the company's valuation top $5 trillion.
At the time of writing, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) stocks are up 2.53% to US$226.28.
