"Amazon Web Services announced Monday that it will be aiming to expand its artificial intelligence and supercomputing infrastructure for government customers, unveiling a new investment of up to $50 billion towards scaling capabilities for federal operations. The investments are intended to add 1.3 gigawatts of electricity generation for its AWS Top Secret, AWS Secret and AWS GovCloud regions. In addition to more power, AWS is preparing to scale new data centers with advanced compute technologies that will support expanded access to AWS software products,"
"The expanded access and infrastructure are intended to support a diverse group of use cases. "Our investment in purpose-built government AI and cloud infrastructure will fundamentally transform how federal agencies leverage supercomputing," AWS CEO Matt Garman said in a news release. "We're giving agencies expanded access to advanced AI capabilities that will enable them to accelerate critical missions from cybersecurity to drug discovery.""
AWS will invest up to $50 billion to expand artificial intelligence and supercomputing infrastructure for federal customers, adding 1.3 gigawatts of electricity for Top Secret, Secret and GovCloud regions. AWS plans to scale new data centers with advanced compute technologies to expand access to Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Nova, Anthropic's Claude and hardware such as AWS Trainium chips. The infrastructure expansion aims to support diverse use cases including cybersecurity and drug discovery. U.S. policymakers have prioritized modernizing computing capacity, including an executive order to expedite data center permitting and the Stargate $100 billion funding initiative.
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