Amazon.com said on Monday it would invest up to $50 billion to expand AI and supercomputing capabilities for Amazon Web Services US government customers, in one of the largest cloud infrastructure commitments targeted at the public sector.

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.

AWS cloud regions for US government are based on increasing levels of data sensitivity. The cloud unit currently serves more than 11,000 U.S. government agencies.

"While Amazon still leads the cloud market, it has lost ground on AI-related cloud growth as Google and Or

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