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Former AWS CEO to Lead $10B AI Data Center Venture

June 30, 2026 at 12:30 EDT

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Adam Selipsky, the former CEO of AWS, has been named CEO of Helix Digital Infrastructure, a new AI data center venture led by KKR. With committed capital exceeding $10 billion, the company aims to develop and operate hyperscale facilities for AI.

The AI Infrastructure Land Grab

Capital, Compute & Cost: The Race to Power AI

Ex-AWS chief Adam Selipsky takes the helm of a $10B+ KKR-backed data center venture as Anthropic and Amazon deepen a $100B+ compute pact — and engineers fight to slash the runaway cost of inference.

$10B+

Capital lined up for Helix Digital Infrastructure, led by KKR

$100B+

Anthropic's AWS spend commitment over 10 years

~1GW

Total compute scale targeted by end of 2026 (Trainium2/3)

The Anthropic × Amazon Pact

Money flows both ways — at very different scales

$100B+

Anthropic → AWS
(10-year spend)

Up to $25B

Amazon → Anthropic
($5B now + up to $20B)

Anthropic locks in stable large-scale compute; Amazon optimizes cost via its in-house Trainium chips.

The Cost Frontier

OpenAI's inference optimization cuts costs in half

100%

Before

→

50%

After

Applied to logged-out ChatGPT traffic, the method reportedly shrank GPU needs to a couple hundred — pointing toward lower API prices and better margins.

Developers' Upside

Anthropic's "Claude Tag" runs inside Slack channels — passing context straight to Claude, moving from a bug report into a coding session as a productivity win.

Salesforce's Worry

Slack's owner promotes its own Slackbot and Agentforce — some insiders call the deepening Anthropic integration a "Trojan horse" that could cannibalize its products.

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