AI chip company Cerebras is to develop a large data center in the South American country of Guyana.

The technology firm and the Government of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana this week announced they have signed a landmark Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to build and operate an artificial intelligence (AI) data center of up to 100MW in Wales, Guyana.

Details on precise location, specifications, and project timelines weren’t shared. The facility will reportedly be located near a gas-to-energy plant, which will power the facility.

Cerebras said it will deploy its CS-3 AI clusters and infrastructure to serve international demand, as well as position Guyana as a “global destination for startups, researchers, and enterprises seeking high-performance compute capabilities in a favorable country environment.”

“We are delighted to partner with the Government of Guyana to build this 100MW data center. This collaboration is a key cornerstone in our Cerebras for Nations initiative. Guyana is leading the way in this global program in which we help world governments build, accelerate, and scale their sovereign AI initiatives,” said Andrew Feldman, CEO and co-founder of Cerebras.

According to Data Center Map and Baxtel, Guyana currently contains no data centers.

The local government announced in April that it had plans to establish an AI data center in the region of Berbice, New Amsterdam, but details about the size and capacity of the facility are sparse.

Guyana’s subsea network is based in Georgetown, which has cable landing stations for the X-Link cable, Deep Blue One, and the Suriname Guyana Submarine Cable System.

In August, President Irfaan Ali announced that a proposal for the construction of a data center had been submitted, though no details were shared.

“This partnership is more than an AI data center; it’s a declaration of Guyana’s ambition,” President Ali said this week. “Guyana is building a future where Guyanese talent powers global innovation, where its infrastructure supports frontier technologies, and where the nation leads the region in digital transformation.”

Cerebras for Nations

In a LinkedIn post, Feldman says the project is the first under the company’s Cerebras for Nations program, which it said aims to help countries “capitalize on somatic resources to build and operate their own AI infrastructure.”

Launched this week, Cerebras wants to help global governments build, accelerate, and scale their sovereign AI initiatives.

The scheme aims to co-design and build AI supercomputers powered by Cerebras hardware, develop AI models, and train up local talent pools in AI and infrastructure skills.

Cerebras’ wafer-scale hardware, however, is subject to US export controls, meaning systems can only be exported to certain countries if a license is granted by the US government.

The company, which develops wafer-scale chips placed inside its proprietary IT hardware systems, recently announced plans to launch six new AI inference data centers across North America and Europe – including more than 300 CS-3 systems at a now live Scale Datacenter facility in Oklahoma City.

Cerebras has inference clusters live in Santa Clara and Stockton, California (the latter at Nautilus’ floating barge facility), and Dallas, Texas. The company is rolling out clusters in Minneapolis, Minnesota; Montreal, Canada (at a Bit Digital facility); and undisclosed locations in the US Midwest and Europe.

The company has deployed hardware to the University of Edinburgh, Sandia National Labs, Los Alamos Labs, G42/Core42, Mayo Clinic, and others.