Nvidia and Japan unveil world's first national AI infrastructure — Noetra consortium to build a 140MW Rubin AI factory with 27,500 GPUs
… The AI factory follows SoftBank's Blackwell-based DGX supercomputer , announced in 2024, and FugakuNEXT , the $740 million RIKEN, Fujitsu, and Nvidia zetta-scale system due around 2030, but it's the first that's state-tendered national infrastructure rather than a corporate or scientific machine. …