Data Centre Magazine September, Issue 52 | Page 50

AWS
TOP 10 – HYPERSCALE DATA CENTRE COMPANIES

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AWS

CEO: MATT GARMAN FOUNDED: 2006
HQ LOCATION: SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, US
Amazon Web Services( AWS) remains the global leader in overall data centre capacity, with 2026 capital expenditure projected to exceed US $ 220bn. Spearheading its hyperscale build-out is Project Rainier, an US $ 11bn, 2.2GW megacampus in Indiana, constructed in strategic partnership with Anthropic. Moving from breaking ground to operational deployment in under a year, the 30-building complex represents the world’ s largest non-Nvidia AI cluster, housing over 500,000 custom Trainium2 chips linked through high bandwidth EC2 UltraServers.
AWS is accelerating this vertically integrated custom silicon deployment with next-generation Trainium3 chips while deploying dedicated“ AI Factories” directly into enterprise clients’ facilities. Backed by market-leading water efficiency, zero-water evaporative cooling designs and gigawatt-scale clean energy PPAs, AWS continues to dictate the operational standard for global cloud and AI infrastructure.
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