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Amazon just tripled its order of Nvidia chips over ‘surging demand’

L2 · PractitionerIndustry & BusinessTechCrunch AI· 8/26/2026

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Amazon tripled its Nvidia GPU order to 2 million chips for AWS data centers through 2028 due to surging AI demand, expanding their partnership beyond just hardware.

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Amazon is adding another 2 million Nvidia GPU chips to its data centers over the next two years. But this extended partnerships stretches beyond buying more chips.

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