Ireland just stood up its first liquid‑cooled NVIDIA HGX B200 Blackwell system at CloudCIX in Cork, one of the earliest B200 liquid deployments in Europe and a major refresh of the Boole supercomputer.
The rack runs at AI‑class power densities (already 120 kW per rack vs legacy ~8 kW) and uses liquid cooling to keep future generations on track toward 600 kW without blowing past energy and thermal limits.
Dell supplies the hardware, while Irish firm AlloComp led architecture, deployment, and optimisation, underscoring that sovereign, high‑end GPU capacity doesn’t have to come from hyperscalers.
CloudCIX is positioning this as sovereign AI compute for Irish startups, industry, and research that need local data residency and enough GPU horsepower to train larger models and run complex simulations.
The project shows the real operational impact of AI: heavy structural work, bespoke access routes, and mechanical upgrades are now table stakes for data centers hosting these dense GPU racks.
Use cases target medtech, pharma, advanced manufacturing, robotics, and computer vision, with onboarding tied to a national AI infrastructure event in January 2026.
The article is worth a read for anyone tracking Blackwell rollouts, liquid cooling maturity, and how smaller operators are carving out regional GPU and data sovereignty plays.
Source: Ireland’s first liquid-cooled NVIDIA B200 supercomputer deployed in Cork – TechCentral.ie
