"Together with SambaNova and our strategic partners, we're building a sovereign AI infrastructure powered by renewable energy, demonstrating that sustainability and scale can go hand in hand. Our goal isn't just to make AI greener, but to make it competitive, compliant and cost-effective."
"This project gives UK enterprises the ability to innovate responsibly, securely and within our own borders, in full alignment with national AI ambitions."
"Argyll is a blueprint for scaling AI responsibly. By pairing renewable power with high-performance, energy-efficient computing, it shows what sustainable AI infrastructure can achieve."
"With SambaNova's chips-to-model platform, we're enabling large-model inference with maximum performance per watt, while helping enterprises and governments maintain full control over their data and energy footprint."
Argyll Data Development and SambaNova will build the UK's first sovereign AI cloud at the Killellan AI Growth Zone on Scotland's Cowal Peninsula using on-site wind, wave and solar generation. The facility will deploy SambaNova's air-cooled SN40L systems, which draw roughly one-tenth the power of traditional GPU systems and remove the need for liquid cooling. Initial capacity will be 100–600 megawatts, scaling to over two gigawatts, with a private-wire renewable network and battery storage enabling island-mode operation. Waste heat will support vertical farming, aquaculture and local district heating through a closed-loop design, aiming for energy-efficient, compliant, and sovereign AI infrastructure.
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