Energy technology firm Lancium has announced a strategic collaboration alongside a direct strategic investment from NVIDIA to advance gigawatt-scale AI factory developments across Lancium’s footprint, which includes 4 gigawatts of leased capacity and a pipeline exceeding 15 gigawatts of powered land. Under this partnership, Lancium’s campuses will serve as key deployment hubs for NVIDIA’s full computing, networking, and software stacks, enabling cloud providers, AI-native companies, and developers to access large-scale, power-ready capacity for demanding workloads. The facilities will integrate NVIDIA DSX reference architecture utilizing DSX MaxLPS to increase GPU density by up to 40% within existing power constraints and DSX Flex to match energy consumption dynamically with grid conditions. Highlighting the vision behind this joint initiative, Michael McNamara, CEO and Co-Founder, Lancium stated: “We have spent years assembling the power, the land, and the infrastructure expertise needed to deliver AI data center capacity at a scale the world has never seen.
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Partnering with NVIDIA the definitive technology platform for AI computing ensures that every campus in our portfolio will be deployed with the industry’s most advanced technology and that NVIDIA’s customers will have access to the capacity they need to compete and lead in the AI era.” Emphasizing the operational advantages, “AI factories are the essential infrastructure of this new industrial era,” said Nico Caprez, vice president of global AI infrastructure growth at NVIDIA. “Together with Lancium, we’re enabling a new generation of gigawatt-scale, power-ready AI factories – enabling cloud partners, AI natives and AI infrastructure developers deploy the full NVIDIA computing stack faster, operate more efficiently and turn energy into intelligence at unprecedented scale.” Endorsing the strategic alignment, Bilal Khan, Senior Managing Director at Blackstone added: “This partnership with NVIDIA is a strong testament to Lancium’s position at the epicenter of energy and AI infrastructure – two of Blackstone’s highest conviction investment themes. We look forward to continuing to partner with these leading companies to help power the next generation of AI innovation.”
