Overview
- Amazon Web Services announced a plan to build data centers starting in 2026 that will provide nearly 1.3 GW of AI and supercomputing capacity for U.S. government customers.
- The buildout will span AWS Top Secret, AWS Secret and AWS GovCloud (US) regions that are physically and logically separated to meet federal security requirements.
- Federal agencies will gain access to services such as Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Nova models, Anthropic’s Claude and open‑source models, powered by AWS Trainium chips and Nvidia infrastructure.
- AWS CEO Matt Garman said the investment will expand agencies’ access to advanced AI capabilities to speed research and decision-making across government missions.
- In parallel with broader hyperscaler expansion, an internal Google presentation reported by CNBC outlined goals to double AI capacity every six months and target roughly 1,000× compute in four to five years, backed by TPUv7 and rising Alphabet capex.