2021 AI Data Center Feed

Microsoft's West Des Moines campus in Iowa is one of the company's largest data center investments, spanning hundreds of acres with multiple buildings. The Iowa cluster is a key node in Microsoft's Azure AI infrastructure, supporting both g

Baidu's Yanqi Lake AI Cloud data center in Yanqing District, Beijing, is one of China's largest purpose-built AI training facilities. The facility powers training of Baidu's ERNIE (文心) family of large language models, which compete with GPT

ByteDance's Inner Mongolia data center cluster, operated through its cloud arm Volcengine, is one of the largest AI training facilities in China. Inner Mongolia is a preferred location for Chinese hyperscalers due to ultra-cheap coal and wi

In June 2024, Microsoft announced a $3.2 billion investment to expand its Sweden Central data center region, specifically to accelerate AI transformation. The expansion includes the deployment of 20,000 advanced GPUs to support high-density

Huawei Cloud's Guizhou data center cluster in Guiyang, the provincial capital of Guizhou, is a major hub for training the Pangu (盘古) large model family, which includes language, vision, and scientific AI models. Guizhou was designated China

The AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region represents a long-term $5 billion USD investment by Amazon Web Services in Indonesia over 15 years. Since its launch in late 2021, the region has rapidly expanded to meet the soaring demand for AI and c

AWS expanded its Japan presence with the AP Northeast 3 Osaka Region, launched as a full multi-AZ region in March 2021 after operating as a Local Region since 2011. The Osaka region provides geographic redundancy for AWS Japan customers, th

Google Cloud opened the Jakarta region in 2021, bringing cloud infrastructure to Indonesia — the world's fourth-most-populous country (280 million people), the largest economy in Southeast Asia, and the most important emerging digital marke

Google Cloud's Warsaw region (europe-central2) launched in 2021 as Google's second European cloud region east of Germany, making it the primary Google Cloud infrastructure point for Central and Eastern Europe. The region operates multiple A

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) operates major data center capacity in Hyderabad as one of its two primary India regions (alongside Mumbai). The Hyderabad region hosts OCI compute, storage, and AI/GPU infrastructure serving Indian enterpr

Google Cloud launched its Chile region (southamerica-west1) in Santiago in April 2021, expanding its South American infrastructure beyond the existing São Paulo region in Brazil. The Santiago region was Google's first cloud region in South

MeluXina is Luxembourg's national supercomputer, combining AMD EPYC CPU nodes with hundreds of NVIDIA A100 accelerators inside a liquid-cooled BullSequana XH2000 system. Drawing roughly 3 megawatts, the machine achieved a top-five Green500

Discoverer, Bulgaria's EuroHPC petascale system at Sofia Tech Park, was upgraded in 2025 with four NVIDIA DGX H200 systems tied into its BullSequana XH2000 cluster. The refresh adds 32 H100 GPUs, new high-speed storage, and enhanced UPS cap

Cambridge-1 is NVIDIA's national AI supercomputer for the United Kingdom, hosted within Kao Data's DGX-ready campus in Harlow. The system comprises 80 DGX A100 nodes linked with HDR InfiniBand, delivering more than 400 petaflops of AI perfo