Overview
- Starting in 2026, AWS will add nearly 1.3 gigawatts of new capacity across its Top Secret, Secret, and GovCloud regions through purpose-built data centers.
- Federal customers will gain access to tools such as Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Nova, Anthropic Claude, AWS Trainium chips, and NVIDIA AI infrastructure.
- AWS describes the effort as the first purpose-built AI and high‑performance computing infrastructure for the U.S. government, extending services used by more than 11,000 agencies.
- Coverage notes that gigawatt‑scale buildouts raise major questions about electricity sourcing and grid reliability, with siting details and the multi‑year spend schedule not yet disclosed.
- The move aligns with the White House AI Action Plan and intensifies competition with Microsoft and Google, while concentrating sensitive workloads in a few providers has prompted resilience concerns after a recent AWS outage.