DUG plans 200 petaflops supercomputing center in Western Australia

DUG Technology just announced that it plans to build the world’s first carbon-free High-Performance Computing (HPC) data center in Geraldton, Australia. The Company said that the new facility would have an earlier compute capacity of over 200 petaflops. It will also have space for multi-exaflop expansion later. In addition, the facility will run on solar, wind, and an onsite hydrogen battery system.

Furthermore, DUG Technology plans to lease 45 hectares of land for this project. Besides, the stage 1 data hall construction is expected to start in Q3 of 2021 and completion set in the first half of 2022. In addition, the Company plans to invest $3.8 million for the first data hall.