Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced that it will invest up to $50 billion to build a new high-performance computing and artificial intelligence infrastructure specifically for the US government. This massive project will break ground in 2026 and will be designed to meet the needs of federal agencies. The system will be used in a wide range of areas, from automation to intelligence.
Amazon Strengthens AI Infrastructure
The new infrastructure will provide additional capacity to AWS’s existing Top Secret, Secret, and GovCloud (US) regions, bringing the total to approximately 1.3 gigawatts of computing power. With this investment, the company plans to provide additional AWS services to more than 11,000 federal agencies and create the first AI and high-performance computing infrastructure designed for the US government.
This will provide government officials with access to the latest Amazon AI technologies, including model training and customization with SageMaker, agent-based AI applications with Bedrock, and open-source foundational models like Amazon Nova and Anthropic Claude.
According to Amazon’s vision, federal agencies will use this hardware and cloud ecosystem to develop specialized AI applications, optimize large datasets, and increase the productivity of the federal workforce.
Potential uses for this infrastructure include autonomous systems, cybersecurity, energy, and healthcare research. The $50 billion investment aims to build a new US-based AI and cloud infrastructure, directly aligned with the previously announced AI Action Plan.
Amazon believes that large language models, agent-based AI, and other technologies will transform the US government’s data processing, surveillance, and threat response processes. AWS’s new facilities are expected to transform defense and intelligence workflows and support next-generation scientific modeling and digital simulations.
