Nvidia and a Japanese industrial consortium are building what Nvidia calls the world’s first national AI infrastructure for physical AI, and the specification is unusually concrete for an announcement of this kind.
The AI factory will run 13,750 Nvidia Vera CPUs and 27,500 Rubin GPUs across 140 megawatts of data centre capacity, built on the Nvidia DSX platform with Vera Rubin NVL72 racks, Spectrum-X Ethernet, and BlueField DPUs.
It is being established by Noetra Corp, and is meant to produce open multimodal foundation models for AI agents, digital twins, and robots.
Noetra is the part worth understanding. It is not a government body. It is a private consortium majority-owned by SoftBank, NEC, Sony Group, and Honda, and it is the vehicle through which Japan is routing its physical AI ambitions.
The 💜 of EU techThe latest rumblings from the EU tech scene, a story from our wise ol' founder Boris, and some questionable AI art. It's free, every week, in your inbox. Sign up now!It is also the second Nvidia announcement out of Tokyo this week. The first signed most of Japan’s robotics establishment up to Nvidia’s open world models. This one supplies the compute those models will be trained on.
