Amazon said it will invest up to $50 billion to expand AI and supercomputing capacity for U.S. government customers on AWS, with construction expected to begin in 2026.
The data center expansion will add nearly 1.3 gigawatts of compute across AWS Top Secret, AWS Secret and AWS GovCloud regions, giving federal agencies access to advanced AI models, custom training tools and high-performance chips, including AWS Trainium and Nvidia infrastructure.
The new capacity is designed to support national security, scientific research, health care, energy, cybersecurity and autonomous systems development. Agencies will be able to analyze massive datasets in real time, integrate AI with modeling and simulation, and automate complex defense and intelligence workflows that previously required weeks of manual analysis.
AWS CEO Matt Garman said the investment will remove technology barriers and accelerate missions ranging from drug discovery to threat detection, while reinforcing U.S. leadership in AI and advanced computing.
Read more in the Amazon blog post.