The University of Southern Denmark (SDU) has announced plans to deploy an Nvidia Blackwell-based AI supercomputer at a data center in Sønderborg, a town in the south of the country.

Set to be developed in partnership with Danfoss and HPE, the university said the data center will combine “sustainable energy management and advanced AI capabilities,” and is supported by ProjectZero, a public-private partnership in Sønderborg aiming to make the town’s energy system carbon-neutral by 2029.

The data center will be built using HPE’s AI Mod POD service, which allows customers to deploy modular data centers that support AI workloads. The supercomputer will consist of 128 direct liquid-cooled Nvidia Blackwell GPUs, deployed in HPE Cray XD225v and HPE ProLiant Compute XD685 servers, HPE ProLiant DL325 and DL365 servers. The system will be interconnected by Nvidia’s Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking platform and HPE Networking CX6300 switches.

In a statement, Danfoss said the data center will also take advantage of heat reuse modules, which the company will supply to support heat recovery at the facility.

The data center will build on efforts previously undertaken by the university at its SDU eScience Center to develop cloud technology and high-performance computing (HPC) services, including DeiC Interactive HPC, an “interactive computational resource” which has been available to Danish universities via SDU’s UCloud supercomputer since 2019.

“We are proud that with the new data center, we can combine research, sustainability, and technological innovation in one unified project,” said Thomas Buchvald Vind, university director at SDU. “It is not only an investment in the future of research but also a concrete example of how SDU creates value for society by supporting the green and digital transition in Denmark.”