Amazon has unveiled plans to invest up to $50bn in expanding AI and supercomputing infrastructure for US government agencies through its Amazon Web Services (AWS) division.

The move will see the construction of new data centres beginning in 2026, adding close to 1.3 gigawatts (GW) of computing capacity across AWS Top Secret, AWS Secret, and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

These facilities are intended to provide federal agencies with broader access to AI tools and services such as Amazon SageMaker AI, Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Nova, Anthropic Claude, AWS Trainium AI chips, Nvidia AI infrastructure, and open-weights foundation models.

The expanded capacity aims to equip federal agencies with resources required for building custom AI solutions, managing vast datasets, and improving workforce output.

Amazon said that integrating AI with simulation and modelling data will significantly reduce the time needed by government agencies for analysis and discovery.

Government research teams will be able to process data involving global security and other mission-critical variables more quickly. Advanced computing will also help consolidate fragmented data sets from areas like supply chains and environmental monitoring into unified analyses, said Amazon.

Defence and intelligence operations are expected to benefit from automated threat detection and large-scale data processing using satellite imagery and sensor information.

Amazon said that its commitment is aligned with the priorities outlined in the US Administration’s AI Action Plan and is designed to support government efforts in domains such as national security, scientific research, autonomous systems development, cybersecurity, and healthcare.

The technology giant’s investment is expected to facilitate secure, scalable infrastructure for both current and future government clients within the relevant AWS cloud regions.

In a separate development, Amazon revealed an estimated $15bn investment in Northern Indiana. This investment will be used for constructing new data centre campuses dedicated to supporting AI and cloud computing technologies.

This project will add 2.4GW of capacity in the region and follows a previously announced $11bn investment in St. Joseph County in 2024.

Amazon claimed that these sites will offer enhanced performance, security, reliability, and energy efficiency for compute-intensive workloads required by government clients.

Recently, Amazon announced plans to invest at least $3bn in building a new data centre campus in Warren County, Mississippi.