A solar-powered GPU facility on an uninhabited island in the Indian Ocean. It starts at 1 MW and grows to 5 MW on the same island, without freshwater cooling, and with a plan to leave the Maldives better connected than before.
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First phase, designed to grow on the same island.
Of annual energy from solar, backed by battery storage.
Design PUE with direct liquid cooling.
Of freshwater used to cool the servers.
Design targets for the first phase. Final figures will be confirmed at launch.
We secure the whole island up front and build in phases. Solar goes on open ground and onto the lagoon. Press a phase to see what is built and how much compute it adds.
Compute is peak theoretical FP4 dense throughput of the NVIDIA HGX B300 reference configuration (108 PFLOPS and 288 GB of memory per GPU). The final platform will be confirmed before launch. The layout is a schematic and not to scale.
Each chart is scaled to its own 5 MW value. The highlighted bar follows the phase selected in the island plan.
About 8 MWp of solar and a 22 MWh battery carry the first phase around the clock. Diesel generators stand by for rare cloudy spells and are not the main source.
Direct liquid cooling runs on 45 °C water, so air-cooled dry coolers are enough all year. No chillers, no evaporative towers, no freshwater used to reject heat.
A small reverse-osmosis plant covers site needs. Space is reserved for a unit that turns server waste heat into additional fresh water.
Server halls, batteries and switchgear sit on raised platforms 2–3 m above ground. We do not dig basements, which protects the island's freshwater lens.
A 100 kW tidal-kite pilot, subject to current measurements, and floating solar in the lagoon during the growth phase, subject to environmental assessment.
Several international subsea systems come ashore in the Maldives. The island connects to a landing station with a dedicated fiber link.
Sized so about 8 MWp of solar and a 22 MWh battery carry a 1 MW load around the clock. Diesel only runs through rare cloudy spells. The curve is a simplified sketch of the principle.
Most island sites burn imported fuel for every kilowatt-hour and draw on a small freshwater supply. This one is designed the other way round.
Diesel avoided every year, compared with a diesel-only site.
Avoided every year. Estimate at 2.68 kg of CO₂ per litre of diesel.
Freshwater drawn from the island's supply to cool the servers.
The remaining share is backup generation for cloudy spells and the clean-energy pilots. Design estimates for the first phase, confirmed at launch.
An environmental impact assessment is completed before construction, and the regulator is involved from the start.
Required before buildNo clear-cutting for solar. Existing trees are kept where possible, native species are planted, and at least half of the island remains natural vegetation in every phase. The plan keeps 79%, 68% and 57%.
Design rule, every phaseMoorings and anchoring are planned to avoid damage to corals. Fuel storage is bunded and has a spill plan.
Design ruleTwo design choices that remove the biggest risks to a small island's water.
Design ruleSpace is reserved for a desalination unit driven by server waste heat, so a by-product becomes fresh water.
Reserved in the planWe intend to publish energy, water, diesel use and reef-monitoring results every year, reviewed by an independent party.
Planned commitmentFollows the phase selected in the island plan above. Areas are an indicative layout and will be fixed after the site survey and environmental assessment.
The project is led by a Maldives-registered operator. These are the commitments we are building into the plan with Maldivian partners, authorities and the communities nearest the island.
Roles the island needs, to be filled locally first · Portraits are generated images, not project staff
ElectricianSwitchgear, batteries and solar strings on raised platforms.
Marine biologistReef surveys before, during and after construction.
Network engineerRuns the fiber link to the landing station and the private network.
University researcherTrains and runs models on reserved compute.Running a liquid-cooled GPU site needs electricians, marine technicians, network engineers and operators. We want most of them to be Maldivians.
An island build runs on boats, logistics, catering, accommodation and civil works. Those orders should stay in the country.
Access to GPUs is the hard part for a small country's universities and young companies. We plan to set aside capacity for them.
The nearest communities should see benefits they can use, and have a say in how the project is run.
Status. These are design intentions at the early-announcement stage. Their scope, targets and partners will be agreed with the Maldivian authorities and communities, then published with dates as approvals are confirmed.
Seven goals the project touches directly. Each one is tied to something the island is designed to do.
About 90% of annual energy from solar, backed by batteries, instead of imported diesel.
About 7,000 t of CO₂ avoided every year against a diesel-only island site.
Reef-safe moorings, bunded fuel storage and marine monitoring with local biologists.
No freshwater cooling, and a reserved unit that turns server heat into fresh water.
Technician training and reserved compute for Maldivian universities.
First-hire preference for Maldivians and local suppliers for island works.
A national-scale AI facility and fiber capacity that can also serve nearby atolls.
A commitment only counts if someone outside the project can check it. This is the cycle we intend to run.
Scope and targets settled with Maldivian authorities and the nearest communities.
Energy, water, diesel, jobs and training hours logged from the first day of construction.
One public report, reviewed by an independent party, with the figures below.
The advisory group reads the report and sets the next year's priorities.
Indicators we plan to publish. Targets will be set together with the partners above and are not yet fixed.
The Maldives sits between the Gulf, India, East Africa and Southeast Asia, on the route where Europe's and Asia's subsea cables meet.
| Maldives | UTC+5 |
|---|---|
| Gulf (UAE) | −1 h |
| India | +0:30 |
| East Africa (Nairobi) | −2 h |
| Singapore | +3 h |
| Western Europe (London) | −4 to −5 h |
One working day overlaps with teams across all five regions. Regulatory statements are general information, not legal advice. Customers should confirm their own compliance position.
An island perimeter with controlled access by sea and air, single-tenant halls and a site not shared with neighbours.
A dedicated fiber link to a cable landing station, with routes that can use more than one international system.
Dedicated hardware, encryption keys held by the client, no telemetry sent out by default, every administrator action logged.
A Maldives-registered operator with a transparent ownership chain. The Uninhabited Islands and Lagoons Act sets leases of 21 years, extendable up to 50.
End-user screening in line with applicable export-control rules. The Maldives is in Country Group B under US export rules.
Start where you are. Rent raw GPUs and run your own stack, or climb the ladder and let us run the model, then the whole agent. Each step hands more of the work to us and is billed by the hour.
You manage moreWe do more of the work
Raw GPU capacity, on demand for experiments and bursts, or reserved for a fixed term. You bring the models, the code and the orchestration.
A model that is already running on dedicated capacity. You pay for the hours it works and stop managing drivers, clusters and scaling.
A ready-to-run agent workstation for a telecom role, powered by Noosphere. It is priced by the work it does, such as a handled contact or a tender response.
Reserved clusters and colocation, with your own hardware in a liquid-cooled hall, are also available for steady workloads.
Final prices are announced at launch. Our goal is GPU capacity priced below the on-demand list prices of the major GPU clouds, and competitive with their long-term contract rates. Agents are priced by the work they do and designed to cost less than the manual work they replace.
All services, and why the island is independent →
Training, fine-tuning and inference on Blackwell-class hardware, on demand or reserved.
Sovereign-grade capacity for operator AI, close to the region's subscribers.
Dedicated space and managed AI hosting with clear ownership, location and compliance.
A path from a first experiment to a reserved cluster, without building a facility.
First capacity is targeted for the second quarter of 2027. Other dates will be published as approvals are confirmed.
MOU signed. Site selection and pre-registration open.
Island lease, environmental assessment, connectivity and supply partners.
Solar and battery, raised platforms, liquid-cooled halls, fiber link.
Targeted for the second quarter of 2027. Early registrants are offered access first.
More solar, floating solar in the lagoon and new halls.
We are targeting the second quarter of 2027 for first capacity. The first phase is a 1 MW modular build, and the date depends on the island lease, the environmental assessment and other approvals. Registered users are told first, and we will publish updated dates as approvals are confirmed.
The island will be announced once the lease is confirmed.
Strong sun for solar power, subsea cables landing in the islands, a location between the Gulf, India, Africa and Southeast Asia, a clear legal framework for island projects and neutral ground for customers from different regions.
The design avoids the main island risks: no freshwater cooling, no basement excavation, solar as the main energy source and at least half of the island kept as natural vegetation. An environmental impact assessment comes before construction, and we intend to publish annual environmental results.
Local hiring and training, local procurement, reserved compute for researchers and startups, shared fresh water and connectivity for nearby communities, and a community advisory group. These are planned commitments that will be agreed with Maldivian partners and published.
Through physical isolation of the island, single-tenant halls, a private fiber link, encryption keys held by the client, full administrator logs and screened access. We will publish the security architecture and audit results as they are completed.
The latest NVIDIA Blackwell-class hardware: 512 GPUs in phase 1, up to 2,560 at 5 MW. The exact platform will be confirmed before launch.
Final prices are announced at launch. Pre-registration involves no payment and no commitment.
Pre-registration involves no payment and no commitment. Early registrants get first access and preferred launch terms. Write to us with your name, organization and the capacity you expect to need.
