Amazon Web Services is investing $50 billion to build infrastructure to boost artificial intelligence capabilities of the U.S. government. The company said it will be building 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.
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 expect to break ground on these data center projects in 2026.
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“Our investment in purpose-built government AI and cloud infrastructure will fundamentally transform how federal agencies leverage supercomputing,” AWS CEO Matt Garman said in the company’s press release. “We’re giving agencies expanded access to advanced AI capabilities that will enable them to accelerate critical missions from cybersecurity to drug discovery. This investment removes the technology barriers that have held the government back and further positions America to lead in the AI era.”
This move follows similar announcements from Anthropic and Meta to expand AI data centers in the U.S. Oracle, OpenAI and SoftBank announced their Stargate joint venture in January, which aims to invest up to $500 billion in AI infrastructure in the U.S. over the next four years.
AWS said the project will enable agencies to develop custom AI solutions, optimize datasets and “enhance workforce productivity.” AWS serves more than 11,000 government agencies, Amazon said Monday.
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“This investment removes the technology barriers that have held government back and further positions America to lead in the AI era,” AWS CEO Matt Garman said in a statement.
This isn’t the first time AWS is working with the U.S. government. The company began building cloud infrastructure for the U.S. government back in 2011. Three years later it launched AWS Top Secret-East, the first air-gapped commercial cloud to work with classified workloads. AWS introduced AWS Secret Region in 2017, which has accredited access to all levels of security classification.
Tech giants have been increasingly offering its services to the U.S. government. Back in January, OpenAI launched a version of ChatGPT designed exclusively for federal U.S. government agencies. In August, the company announced that it gave government agencies access to the enterprise tier of ChatGPT for just $1 a year. The same month, Anthropic announced it was also giving the U.S. government access to the enterprise tiers of its Claude chatbot for $1. Google announced “Google for Government” for even less, charging 47 cents for the first year, shortly after.