Amazon AWS: AWS partners with Australian government for high-security data center development

Amazon has partnered with the Australian government for the development of a high-security data center that will handle top-secret information with an investment of A$2 billion to be made over the next decade. Due to the "top secret" nature of the project, neither the location nor the specifics of the data to be handled at the facility have been shared.

Australian Signals Directorate chief Rachel Noble said: "Artificial intelligence is an important game changer for all of us in the intelligence community, and we are working to embrace the use of it in an ethical, well governed and well-understood manner, where we understand very carefully when we bring AI tools into our environment how are they being used, what are they doing to the data and do we understand how carefully they need to be governed?"

Amazon's Australian public sector division managing director Iain Rouse added: “We’ve been here for a decade, we employ thousands of Australian citizens today. In the last decade, we’ve invested $9.1 billion in Australia, and we’ve committed [a] further $13.2 billion worth of investment through to 2027.”