SWI Compute plans UK AI campus with expansion to 530MW

SWI Group has established SWI Compute to develop and operate Nvidia AI factories, with a UK campus planned to open at 30MW by the end of 2027. The company said it intends to expand that campus to 530MW.

The UK facility is set to house close to 7,000 Rubin GPUs alongside 3,500 Vera CPUs, using Nvidia Vera Rubin NVL72 racks. SWI Compute has placed orders worth about $1 billion for Nvidia systems and is targeting 2.3GW of AI factory capacity by 2029, according to the company.

SWI Group says it secured 3.6GW of power capacity over six years across 24 locations in Europe and the US. Its European portfolio includes five campuses, located in Ireland, the UK, Denmark, Spain and Italy. The group says a major hyperscaler leases one of those campuses.

For its initial deployment, SWI Compute is using Nvidia Blackwell Ultra systems, with Delta Computers handling systems integration for more than 8,000 GPUs. The company plans to use Nvidia’s DSX reference design for sites from 2027 onward, beginning with the UK campus.

SWI Compute says a US-based AI inference platform has contracted capacity as its first customer. The business offers European AI start-ups, laboratories and enterprises dedicated or on-demand capacity under European jurisdiction. It became a preferred Nvidia cloud partner in August.