Overview
- Amazon says the project will add nearly 1.3 gigawatts of secure AI and high‑performance computing across AWS Top Secret, Secret and GovCloud regions.
- AWS describes the effort as the first purpose‑built AI/HPC infrastructure designed specifically for U.S. government workloads.
- Federal agencies will gain access to Amazon SageMaker, Bedrock, Amazon Nova, Anthropic Claude, AWS Trainium chips and NVIDIA AI infrastructure.
- Construction is slated to start in 2026, and Amazon did not disclose how the up‑to‑$50 billion spend will be phased over time.
- Separate from the federal program, Amazon also announced a $15 billion Indiana data‑center expansion adding 2.4 gigawatts for commercial capacity.