Amazon to invest 50bn in AI for US government customers

Amazon is set to invest up to $50bn to expand artificial intelligence (AI) and supercomputing capacity for United States government customers, in one of the largest cloud infrastructure commitments targeted at the public sector. The e-commerce giant announced the investment on Monday. One gigawatt of computing power is roughly enough to power about 750,000 US households on average. "This investment removes the technology barriers that have held the government back", Amazon Web Services (AWS) CEO Matt Garman said. AWS is already a major cloud provider to the US government, serving more than 11,000 government agencies.