Earlier this month British AI start-up, Nscale, acquired the up to 8GW Monarch Compute Campus in West Virginia. A 2,250-acre (910-hectare) campus. The site is America's first state-certified AI microgrid. Nscale plans to build one of the world's largest AI factories on the site. Very positive news from a company that has come in for some criticism in the UK for a perceived lack of progress to back up big announcements last year. They'll be collaborating with Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Caterpillar to deliver 1.35GW of Vera Rubin NVL72 GPUs. The Vera Rubin NVL72 rack is 100 percent liquid-cooled, and feature cable‑free modular tray designs. Hundreds of Caterpillar G3500 series natural gas generator sets will be deployed at a sufficient scale to achieve two gigawatts of power generation by the first half of 2028. There's a lot of considerations here. If the site does scale up to 8 GW over the next few years, it would match the power demand of a large US city. Significant emissions from just this one location. Speed and scale vs climate solutions? Image - Fidelis New Energy #datacenters #nscale
