Amazon Bets $50 Billion on Federal AI: Inside AWS’s Massive New Supercomputing Push for US Government Agencies
Published: November 26, 2025 Amazon has just made one of the biggest infrastructure commitments ever aimed at the public sector: up to $50 billion to build out dedicated artificial intelligence (AI) and supercomputing capacity for U.S. government customers of Amazon Web Services (AWS). The multi‑year program, announced November 24 and now rippling through Washington and Wall Street, will add roughly 1.3 gigawatts of new computing power across AWS’s Top Secret, Secret and GovCloud regions starting in 2026. About Amazon+1 At full scale, that’s about as much electricity as nearly one million U.S. homes consume, all pointed at AI workloads for