Amazon Web Services is making a sizable new investment in infrastructure designed to boost AI capabilities for U.S. government organizations.

AWS announced Monday it is investing $50 billion to build AI “high-performance computing infrastructure” purposefully built for the U.S. government. The buildout is meant to expand federal government agencies’ access to AWS AI services.

The project will add 1.3 gigawatts of compute and will expand government access to AWS products, including Amazon SageMaker AI, model customization, Amazon Bedrock, model deployment, and Anthropic’s Claude chatbot, among others, according to the company.

AWS expects to break ground on these data center projects in 2026.

“Our investment in purpose-built government AI and cloud infrastructure will fundamentally tr

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