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Amazon is investing billions in data centers for the feds.

The infrastructure buildout will add nearly 1.3 gigawatts of capacity for AI and cost up to $50 billion, the company said. US government customers will have access to both AWS Trainium AI chips and NVIDIA chips, and Amazon said it plans to start building the data centers in 2026.

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