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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

🦾 🎩 Arm's Executive Vice President of Cloud AI Business, Mohamed Awad, was truly speaking our language at a tour of Isambard-AI last week. We discussed chip design (of course), data centre efficiency, case studies and the future of our ongoing 18 year relationship 🤯

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

“If we can come up with a better way to discover materials, then I can't think of anything else that could have a bigger impact on the physical world that we live in,” - Chad Edwards tells TIME. We're proud to be powering CuspAI - already valued at £2.6bn 🤯 time.com/collection/t...

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TIME100 AI 2026: Chad Edwards

Find out why Chad Edwards made TIME’s list of the most influential people in artificial intelligence

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

We're having some very exciting conversations with, and visits from, companies and research teams at the frontier of UK AI advancement. Subscribe to our YouTube to be the first to see new case study films and video podcasts from our user base as they're uploaded. www.youtube.com/@BriCS-UoB

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

🇯🇵 🇬🇧 One of the world's most influential supercomputing leaders, Satoshi Matsuoka, and the team from RIKEN visited Bristol. RIKEN built Fugaku, the most powerful supercomputer globally at launch in June 2020. 🗞️: www.bristol.ac.uk/research/cen... @riken-sciverse.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social

RIKEN and BriCS colleagues stand in the indoor garden at the new University of Bristol Sloane Robinson building

RIKEN and BriCS colleagues stand outside Isambard-AI, the UK's most powerful AI supercomputer.

RIKEN and BriCS colleagues stand outside Isambard Park 1, where Isambard 3 and Isambard-AI are located.

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

📺 Global television network, CGTN Europe, commissioned a special 30 minute episode on Isambard-AI last year, which aired on their Razor Science Show last month. ▶️ Razor Science Show: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmWm...

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Inside One of the World's Most Powerful AI Supercomputers And How It's Saving Lives

YouTube video by RAZOR Science Show

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

There have been many memorable moments over the course of the past year since the UK's most powerful AI supercomputer, Isambard-AI, launched. Our latest article reflects on Isambard-AI's first year through a conversation. 🗞️ www.bristol.ac.uk/research/cen...

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2026: One year of Isambard-AI | Research | University of Bristol

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Introducing Node to Node, a video podcast series by BriCS, unearthing the projects, policies and ideas shaping AI in the UK. 🎧 ▶️ Listen and watch: lnkd.in/eNVJnad9 @simonmcs.bsky.social

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

One year ago, Isambard-AI powered up ⚡ 🎩 Since then, the UK's sovereign AI supercomputer has powered around 1,000 research projects for more than 4,000 users. Read: www.bristol.ac.uk/research/cen... Watch: youtu.be/Day4mE4uQBM @bristoluni.bsky.social

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One year of Isambard-AI: July 2025-2026

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

🎬 CASE STUDY: Cancer pathology assisted by AI This team have used Isambard-AI to create a computational pathology system that aligns AI and clinical reasoning. ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNAd... @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social @simonmcs.bsky.social

A microscope looks at a biopsy sample on a slide

Gregory Verghese and Dr. Christopher Banerji stand in front of building in London

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Isambard-AI is powering the UK's first frontier LLM, built by Cosine 🇬🇧 🎩 'Lumen Sovereign' is being developed for organisations that want control over where models run, how data is governed, and how systems are deployed. @bristoluni.bsky.social

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Amazing speaker line-up for 'From Compute to Community: How Isambard-AI Can Accelerate Startups and Shape the AI Ecosystem' 🎤 NVIDIA - Steve Davey Jessica Driscoll. Cosine - Niall Devlin. Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. BriCS - Emma, Andy and Rich Operating waitlist!

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

We are honoured to receive a National Infrastructure Excellence Award from The UK Cancer Vaccine AI Scientist & Supercomputing Project 🏆 This award recognises the exceptional infrastructure and expertise provided by the team behind Isambard-AI

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

🎬 CASE STUDY: Detecting Alzheimer's with a simple blood test 🧠 Dementia is the number one killer of people in the UK and it’s extremely hard to fight with medical interventions. But that’s all about to change. Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KbO...

A visual of the models Prima Mente are using to make clinical breakthroughs

Ivan Koychev and Hannah Madan, from Prima Mente

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

It was a genuine pleasure to welcome one of our largest users, AI Security Institute, to Isambard-AI yesterday. The world's first state-backed AI security organisation meets the UK's most powerful supercomputer 🇬🇧 💪 Watch our latest case study with AISI Red team: www.youtube.com/watch?v=of2l...

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

📢 Department for Science, Innovation and Technology have announced that the University of Oxford and UCL will host new AI labs and develop the next generation of AI. ⚡Both institutions will be awarded time on Isambard-AI and other AIRR facilities. 🗞️Read more: www.gov.uk/government/n...

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UK backs new AI labs to make technology cheaper, more reliable and easier to use

Oxford and UCL to host new government-backed labs developing the next generation of AI that more businesses and services can readily use

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Isambard-AI is the 13th fastest supercomputer in the world and retained its position as the 4th greenest supercomputer. ⚡ Powered by entirely renewable UK based sources ❄️ Uses direct liquid cooling (DLC) 🍃 Cut construction emissions by 72% Top500: lnkd.in/eecX-V_b Green500: lnkd.in/eJT2bVNN

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Hewlett Packard Enterprise produced a video podcast about the efficiency considerations made when designing and building Isambard-AI. ⚡Powered by renewable energy ❄️Efficient direct liquid cooling 🍃Low emission build Read more: www.bristol.ac.uk/research/cen... ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTaH...

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2026: Inside Isambard-AI | Research | University of Bristol

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

🎩 The BriCS team have built and deployed an open, sovereign software stack designed to give the UK long-term control over its AI infrastructure, while remaining flexible enough to evolve with a rapidly changing technology landscape. 👉 www.bristol.ac.uk/research/cen...

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

🎬 CASE STUDY: AI Security Institute This team, as part of the UK Government, is looking at "data poisoning" - attacks where malicious data is hidden within the trillions of words and numbers used to train AI. ▶️ youtu.be/of2lgW6aBfY @bristoluni.bsky.social @simonmcs.bsky.social

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Whilst the Anthropic situation continues to evolve, it has served as a reminder that AI is strategic infrastructure, subject to similar geopolitical considerations as energy, telecommunications, semiconductors and defence technologies. Full post on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/posts/lumen-...

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Today at London Tech Week, our Director, @simonmcs.bsky.social, sat down with Claire Thorne from Deep Science Ventures, for a session called 'Isambard-AI - Tackling Humanity's Biggest Challenges.' The session covered many themes from project build and funding to software stack and agentic users 💡

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Exciting! £750m in funding announced for the UK's AI Research Resource (AIRR), from the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology. An opportunity for the UK to build more powerful supercomputers - exciting for Bristol, as we have the experts and the experience. www.gov.uk/government/p...

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UK AI Hardware Plan

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

UK PM Keir Starmer spoke at London Tech Week yesterday, making several exciting announcements. The key theme was partnership: government, industry, and academia working together to make the UK the best place in the world for tech and AI. Read more 🗞️👇 www.gov.uk/government/s...

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Prime Minister’s speech at London Tech Week 2026

Prime Minister Keir Starmer's speech at London Tech Week 2026.

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

🎩The BriCS team are looking forward to attending London Tech Week next week at the Olympia in London. 💡The week will be all about the tech industry, offering exciting opportunities, connections and insights to those who attend. Find out more about the event below 👇 londontechweek.com

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London Tech Week 2026 | The ultimate tech experience

Join London Tech Week 2026 (8-12 June) for cutting-edge innovations, world-class speakers, and unrivalled networking. Be part of the future!

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UK Research and Innovation @ukri.org · 04/06/2026

Pioneering research from the University of Oxford made the headlines this week👀 This exciting project is using AI to develop personalised cancer vaccines. #MRC funding will support its next phase, including equipment to manufacture experimental mRNA cancer vaccines. 👉 www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Personal cancer vaccines using AI gets research funding in Oxford

Researchers use AI supercomputers to compare vasts amount of data in search for personal vaccines.

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Would compute from Isambard-AI help push your project to it's full potential? Each project can apply for between 50,000 and 1,400,000 graphics processing unit (GPU) hours on the Isambard-AI supercomputer, to be used over a six or 12-month project. 👉 www.ukri.org/opportunity/...

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AIRR compute opportunity: AI open access

Apply for between 50,000 and 1,400,000 graphics processing unit (GPU) hours on the Isambard-AI supercomputer for artificial intelligence (AI) related research and development projects.

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

🎬CASE STUDY: Ensuring LLMs value human cooperation. We will increasingly hand over decision-making to LLMs and we must do all we can to ensure they act with our best interests at heart. Research collab between Geodesic Research and the UK's AI Security Institute. ▶️ youtu.be/PiXtHvKeSC0

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The BriCS team are beyond proud (but not surprised) that our Chief Technology Officer, Sadaf Alam, and our Director, @simonmcs.bsky.social have both been recognised in the Scientific Computing World 'SCW75' list 🎩 www.scientific-computing.com/scientific-c...

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The Scientific Computing World 75 | Scientific Computing World

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

🎩 Last night, the BriCS team were delighted to attend the launch of the UK's Sovereign AI Fund, hosted by Tramshed Tech in Cardiff. 📢 The Sovereign AI Fund is the UK Government's new £500 million venture fund committed to backing Britain's AI founders, and BriCS are proud to support this!

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

CASE STUDY: Using AI to spot the earliest signs of disease in farm animals before they even show physical symptoms, allowing early intervention and cures. ▶️ youtu.be/p0WzurIUSuc

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

🎬CASE STUDY: Pollution modelling for the UK. David Topping and his team are using Isambard-AI to create a high-resolution pollution modelling framework, open to all, supported by NVIDIA. ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgRo...

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Delighted to give the Premier of Sarawak and colleagues from SMD Semiconductor a tour of Isambard-AI this week. This new strategic partnership with Sarawak, Malaysia, is a part of strengthening University of Bristol's role in global semiconductor innovation. Image credit: UKAS

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CSCS - Swiss National Supercomputing Centre @cscsch.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Big news from Prague! #CSCS has been named a Virtualization Visionary at #SUSECON26. We unified our VM and Kubernetes operations with SUSE, giving scientists faster, more reliable access to research tools and enabling continued innovation: bit.ly/3QEJ6df. Kudos to the CSCS team!

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Find us at CUG2026 next week: ssl.linklings.net/conferences/... 🗓️Sunday 26th - Programming Environment, Applications and Documentation (PEAD) 🗓️Monday 27th - Tutorials 1C and 1D 🗓️Thursday 28th - Technical sessions 1B and 6C

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CUG2026 Program

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

🎬 CASE STUDY: A UK built LLM, specifically considering UK minority Celtic languages. How do we ensure LLMs are aligned with UK interests and that they serve the needs of everyone? Meet Prof. Pontus Stenetorp and his team, behind UK-LLM www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jlr1...

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

We proudly welcome the Sovereign AI portfolio to the UK's fastest supercomputer 🎩 sovereignai.gov.uk/portfolio Congratulations on being the first cohort of what will become a world-changing portfolio, created in the UK, with global impact. 🗞️ www.bristol.ac.uk/research/cen...

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2025: Isambard-AI supercomputer powers £500m UK Sovereign AI fund | Research | University of Bristol

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

🎩 Isambard-AI is proudly powering Sovereign AI's £500m fund for startups across the UK. Built like venture capital, funded by UK Government 🇬🇧 Apply for funding 👉 sovereignai.gov.uk/compute-stra... View the portfolio 👉 sovereignai.gov.uk/portfolio UK Gov announcement: lnkd.in/e7s8BKbT

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

🎂 9th April was the birthday of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the revolutionary British civil engineer. 🚂 Brunel's projects include the Great Western Railway, and the iconic Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, UK. 🎉 Isambard-AI, the UK's fastest and most powerful supercomputer, is named after him.

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Monday 30th March was the 9th anniversary of the Isambard service 🎩 Pictured is BriCS Director, @simonmcs.bsky.social, at the official EPSRC/UKRI launch of Isambard 1 in 2017. Then came Isambard 2 and Isambard 3. 7 years later, we'd start to build the UK's fastest supercomputer, Isambard-AI.

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Isambard Summit 2026 was made a huge success by the speakers, sponsors, and showcased projects. Thank you to everyone who contributed and attended. See you next year 🎩

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Dima Damen @ECCV 2026 @dimadamen.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

At @brics-uob.bsky.social summit today @bristoluni.bsky.social. Happy faces of users all around. I &my team are proud users thanks to national DSIT grants. I took virtual pictures with the original Isambard and the new Isambard! Thanks @simonmcs.bsky.social, Sadaf and the team for the invitation.

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

12 hours until Isambard Summit 2026 🎩 #IS26 Programme: docs.isambard.ac.uk/events/is26_... Doors from 09:30 at @wethecurious.bsky.social www.wethecurious.org

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

BriCS' Director, @simonmcs.bsky.social, had the pleasure of giving Rt Hon Steve Reed OBE MP, and regional UK mayors, a tour of Isambard-AI yesterday, as part of a national mayoral event hosted by @bristoluni.bsky.social at NCC. READ: www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2026/ma...

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Dima Damen @ECCV 2026 @dimadamen.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Thanks Bristol Centre for Supercomputing (BriCS) for featuring our work as users of the fantastic #IsambardAI w/ Michael Wray, J Chalk @prajwalgatti.bsky.social @sinhasaptarshi.bsky.social S Bansal, J Zhao @bristoluni.bsky.social @compscibristol.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxrn...

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Case study - Isambard-AI: Assistive Technology

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University of Bristol @bristoluni.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

🚀 The UK’s most powerful AI supercomputer, Isambard-AI, is now live in Bristol. Officially launched at the NCC today by Secretary of State for Science, Innovation, and Technology Peter Kyle, it can complete 80 years of human work in one second. A new era for research begins🔬 ➡️ brnw.ch/21wUdXk

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Danielle Paul @daniellepaul.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Exciting to be at the official switch on of IsambardAI and showcase what we have been doing. We have had a great experience on this compute & lucky to have such a resource in Bristol!

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

🇬🇧 👑 1 month since we had a future King at the Isambard site. There have been many moments to be proud of during the Isambard project, this one is definitely up there. #supercomputing #hpc #ai #royal #sovereignai

BriCS Director Simon McIntosh-Smith and BriCS CTO Sadaf Alam talk with Prince William inside the Isambard-AI modular data centre. A cabinet is open and there are blue and red pipes from the direct liquid cooling system.

BriCS Director Simon McIntosh-Smith talks with Prince William inside the Isambard-AI modular data centre

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