Armada will build distributed sovereign superintelligence capacity in months, not years, says Dan Wright, Co-founder and CEO of Armada
Armada has announced it will partner with Johnson Controls to build 500MW of distributed sovereign superintelligence capacity in 2027.
The company plans to manufacture and deploy standardised superintelligence infrastructure built within the NVIDIA DSX POD reference design for the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform.
This move aims to counter traditional data centre construction timelines, which can take years for a single facility to become IT-ready.
Armada highlights that a conventional 50MW facility can consume roughly 600,000 on-site labour hours, compounding a construction industry shortfall projected to reach 288,000 workers by 2027.
Together with Johnson Controls, Armada is positioned to bring Vera Rubin-based factories to customers who need capacity now, wherever their energy and data are.
Charlie Boyle, vice president of DGX Systems at NVIDIA
Factory-built superintelligence infrastructure
Armada will use the NVIDIA DSX POD, a reference design for standardised, factory-integrated compute containers, to accelerate the deployment of superintelligence capacity.
The design moves repeatable construction work from job sites into Armada’s Galleon Forge factories.
Here, compute, networking, rack-level power, liquid-cooling plumbing and supporting infrastructure are integrated and validated before shipment.
Once on site, Armada connects the containers to prepared power, water, cooling and networking.
This allows customers to scale by adding standardised containers as demand grows.
“The superintelligence race isn’t going to be won by whoever pours concrete the fastest,” says Dan Wright, Co-founder and CEO of Armada.
“Companies and nations can have the chips, the land, the power, and the ambition, and still be told to wait years for a building.
“The NVIDIA DSX POD reference design lets us cut that wait out of the equation.
“We build the superintelligence factory in one of our Galleon Forge factories, ship it, connect it, and our customers are generating tokens in months, on infrastructure they own and control.”
In a LinkedIn Post, Dan added: “The payoff goes beyond speed. Capacity that goes live sooner means tokens flowing sooner, which drives returns for companies and shapes how competitive entire countries are in superintelligence, including their security and economic output.
“If America is going to win the superintelligence race, it can’t wait on concrete. It has to deploy infrastructure where energy already lives.”
The role of NVIDIA’s DSX platform
Armada uses the NVIDIA DSX platform across the full life of a superintelligence factory.
This includes using NVIDIA DSX Air to simulate the facility and validate its Bridge GPU management software before hardware ships.
The company then uses the DSX POD reference design to manufacture the containers.
Once operational, NVIDIA DSX MaxLPS helps maximise token output within each site’s power envelope through software-driven power allocation, advanced performance-per-Watt techniques and power-envelope optimisation.
The Armada Platform also supports NVIDIA AI Grid, enabling operators and enterprises to manage geographically distributed AI infrastructure.
Under the collaboration, NVIDIA designs, tests and validates the DSX POD reference design for its Vera Rubin platform.
Armada then engineers, manufactures, integrates and delivers the modular data centres to customers at scale.
“The demand for compute is outpacing the speed at which the world can build the facilities to house it,” says Charlie Boyle, vice president of DGX Systems at NVIDIA.
“By utilising the NVIDIA DSX POD reference design, Armada can deliver factory-built, Vera Rubin-based containers to customers.
“Together with Johnson Controls, Armada is positioned to bring Vera Rubin-based factories to customers who need capacity now, wherever their energy and data are.”
Manufacturing and deployment expertise
Armada’s experience includes deploying data centres in challenging environments such as frozen Alaska, a US Navy littoral combat ship and desert sites in the Middle East.
This work has informed its supply chain and engineering approach.
The company’s modular data centre readiness is achieved in partnership with Johnson Controls, while its superintelligence factory line is designed directly with NVIDIA and in line with NVIDIA reference architectures.
“NVIDIA is rapidly advancing the age of intelligence and reshaping the infrastructure required to support it,” says Joakim Weidemanis, CEO of Johnson Controls.
“Our collaboration with Armada combines their expertise in deploying compute at the edge with Johnson Controls’ advanced thermal management technology, engineering capabilities and global manufacturing scale.
“This combination delivers high-performance infrastructure engineered to quickly bring capacity online where and when it’s needed.”
Dan Wright, Co-Founder and CEO of Armada in a LinkedIn post: “If America is going to win the superintelligence race, it can’t wait on concrete. It has to deploy infrastructure where energy already lives.”
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NVIDIA: Provides the core architecture, designing, testing and validating the DSX POD reference design for the Vera Rubin platform.
Johnson Controls: Delivers advanced thermal management technology, engineering capabilities and global manufacturing scale to the partnership.
Armada: Acts as the primary integrator, engineering, manufacturing, customising, servicing and delivering the completed modular data centres to customers.
