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The Nordics and NVIDIA Show What Regional Commitment to Advanced Computing Can Enable
NVIDIA’s blog describes the Nordic approach as combining renewable energy, data governance, academic-industry links, shared supercomputers and cross-border applications.
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The Nordics connect advanced computing across the region
NVIDIA’s blog describes the Nordics’ structural advantages for building a technology hub as abundant renewable energy, strict data governance and a research tradition linking academia with industry. The blog says Nordic AI cloud capacity is expected to reach 1 gigawatt of deployment by the end of 2027.
In Denmark, the Danish Centre for AI Innovation launched Gefion in October 2024, making an NVIDIA AI supercomputer, related software, training and expert support available to public- and private-sector researchers. The Danish Centre for AI Innovation owns and operates Gefion; EIFO holds 15% and the Novo Nordisk Foundation holds 85%, with all revenue reinvested in the program.
Gefion consists of 1,528 NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs. Its research areas include health and life sciences, the green transition and fault-tolerant quantum computing.
Sweden’s Sferical One shared supercomputer was launched by a consortium led by Ericsson, AstraZeneca, Saab, SEB and Wallenberg Investments, with SKF as a strategic partner. It uses two NVIDIA DGX SuperPODs, 16 DGX GB300 racks and 1,152 GPUs.
In Iceland, Opera deployed the KEF-1 supercomputer at atNorth’s ICE02 data center, using NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD, DGX H100 systems and NVIDIA AI Enterprise software to accelerate AI model training and large-language-model responses. Opera said the site’s carbon-free hydropower and geothermal power, together with free-air cooling, meet its requirements for reducing the environmental impact of supercomputers.
Cross-border cooperation is also part of the model. Nordic AI & Quantum Node was initiated by several Nordic innovation organizations to bring together researchers, industry leaders and scale-ups and advance AI and quantum applications.
NVIDIA’s blog cites ABB Robotics’ use of Omniverse libraries to develop RobotStudio HyperReality. ABB Robotics said the solution’s simulation accuracy reaches as high as 99% and can shorten commissioning time by up to 80%.
Sources
- The Nordics and NVIDIA Show What’s Possible When a Region Commits to Advanced Computing | NVIDIA Blog (blogs.nvidia.com)
- Danish Centre for AI Innovation - Novo Nordisk Fonden (novonordiskfonden.dk)
- Nordic energy powers AI supercomputer - atNorth (www.atnorth.com)
- Strengthening the Nordics global AI and quantum position | Nordic Innovation (nordicinnovation.org)