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Amazon Pledges Up To $50 Billion To Expand AI, Supercomputing For US Government

(Monday November 24, 2025 @10:30PM (BeauHD) from the now-that's-a-lot-of-cloud dept.)


Amazon is [1]committing up to $50 billion to [2]massively expand AI and supercomputing capacity for U.S. government cloud regions , adding 1.3 gigawatts of high-performance compute and giving federal agencies access to its full suite of AI tools. Reuters reports:

> The project, expected to break ground in 2026, will add nearly 1.3 gigawatts of artificial intelligence and high-performance computing capacity across AWS Top Secret, AWS Secret and AWS GovCloud regions by building data centers equipped with advanced compute and networking technologies. The project, expected to break ground in 2026, will add nearly 1.3 gigawatts of artificial intelligence and high-performance computing capacity across AWS Top Secret, AWS Secret and AWS GovCloud regions by building data centers equipped with advanced compute and networking technologies.

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> Under the latest initiative, federal agencies will gain access to AWS' comprehensive suite of AI services, including Amazon SageMaker for model training and customization, Amazon Bedrock for deploying models and agents, as well as foundation models such as Amazon Nova and Anthropic Claude. The federal government seeks to develop tailored AI solutions and drive cost-savings by leveraging AWS' dedicated and expanded capacity.



[1] https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-ai-investment-us-federal-agencies

[2] https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/amazon-invest-up-50-billion-ai-supercomputing-us-government-customers-2025-11-24/



Intelligence (Score:2)

by Gavino ( 560149 )

Is one thing governments usually lack, along with common sense. What's 50 billion more, on top of a 34 trillion dollar debt? Is this the last act of stupidity, before the whole financial system collapses? Bezos fiddling while Rome burns?

Re: Intelligence (Score:2)

by Big Hairy Gorilla ( 9839972 )

This could be described as facism in action. The point is to fan the flames of hysteria for profit. You wouldn't want to lose that race, right? Also , isn't Google doing the same thing? The street loves a good story.

Pledges? (Score:1)

by stoicfaux ( 466273 )

Amazon is "pledging" to expand capacity for government contracts? Any reason why we're not using the phrase "going to bill the government to cover the costs of the expansion" instead?

Re: (Score:2)

by ArchieBunker ( 132337 )

Journalism is pretty much dead in this country.

To Build What (Score:3)

by sound+vision ( 884283 )

I have to question what these data centers would be used for. The guys at the controls don't seem to be angling to provide people healthcare, housing, jobs, or education in any capacity.

The same people who have been telling me my whole life that government can't do anything useful. Makes you wonder what they are doing with it, then.

Let's keep in mind: (Score:2)

by buss_error ( 142273 )

Amazon persuaded NASA to use S3 rather than the object store NASA invented: [1]Open Stack SWIFT. [slashdot.org]

Instead of being able to rely on their own work, with minimal cost, now NASA is locked into a multi-year monopoly and will be paying for it for decades. I see this as just another instance of corporations sucking the government tit forever. Maybe this time, it won't be. And Lucy could let Charlie Brown finally kick that football too.

Amazon is in it for the money of course. The question is does it make sense for the

[1] https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/20/03/19/2358227/nasa-to-launch-247-petabytes-of-data-into-aws-but-forgot-about-egress-costs-before-lift-off#comments

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