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The European Commission's new Technological Sovereignty Package aims to triple European data center capacity in under a decade and integrate those facilities into the energy grid in a sustainable, transparent way. Europe has many strengths. This infrastructure ambition matches them. Across the world, we see AI demand is hitting a power cliff. More compute requires more electricity, and more electricity is useless if the grid can't move it where it's needed. In 2025, Australia alone lost 7.2 terawatt-hours of clean energy because transmission couldn't keep pace with generation. Europe faces the same structural problem. Armada has been focused from day one on bringing AI infrastructure to stranded energy, not the other way around. Our Galleon modular data centers are built to run on any available power source, deployable wherever compute is needed most. With WinDC, we're deploying Australia's first network of portable AI factories powered by renewable energy, helping fulfil its ambitions for sovereign AI compute nationwide. Next winter, we'll deliver a Galleon to an oil rig for Aker BP on the Norwegian Continental Shelf to help their drive toward autonomous operations. It’s the first modular data center deployed offshore and a meaningful step toward sovereignty for Norwegian companies. Sovereign compute isn't only a policy goal. It's an operational requirement for countries to win the AI race. And it has to run where the energy is. https://lnkd.in/dxfgXWER

The MISSION 2044 Tokyo Resilience Summit brought together leaders from defense, industry, finance, and government to explore how innovation and industrial capability strengthen national resilience and security.   Armada was honored to participate alongside other leading companies from the United States and Europe, engaging with Japan’s defense and industrial communities on sovereign AI, resilient digital infrastructure, and mission-critical computing. The discussions reinforced the importance of trusted partnerships and advanced technology in building more secure and resilient societies.

Thank you AtomsNotBits for passing the mic to our Co-Founder and CEO Dan Wright this week!

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Distributed compute needs to be deployed with speed, scale, and sovereignty. Dan joined Bloomberg Tech this week to talk about Galleon Forge One, our Series B, and the infrastructure buildout required to meet growing demand for inference, fine-tuning, and distributed model deployment at scale. The next wave of compute will not live only in centralized clouds. It will need to be deployed where land, energy, and data already exist. That is what Armada was built for. That is what Galleon delivers.

The question isn't whether AI is coming to special operations. It's already there.  The real question is whether the compute infrastructure can keep up where connectivity is intermittent, logistics are constrained, and teams are small. That's a harder problem than most people building AI tools are actually solving for.  At SOFWeek, we're focusing on conversations that keep coming up: - How does a sovereign AI stack actually integrate into existing SOF architecture and workflows?  - Which frontier models can realistically run at the tactical edge, fully air-gapped, and what does that unlock for operational decision-making?  - When the requirement calls for lightweight and ruggedized, what options exist beyond the large form factor, and how do they connect back to the broader compute layer? At Armada we build AI infrastructure for exactly these environments. Our platform is designed to process data where it's generated, without waiting on a connection that may or may not be there. Come and bring your toughest challenges to us at the Outpost. Russell Cihal Tori McCaffrey Derek M. Heese Keegan Jones

Thank you CNBC for recognizing Armada on the CNBC Disruptor 50 list. We are building the infrastructure required for AI to run where the data, energy, and mission live. Our Galleons are already delivering real-time data processing for customers across defense, energy, industrial operations, and remote environments. Galleon Forge One is the next step: continuous American manufacturing of modular data centers, built to deploy AI infrastructure at speed, scale, and with sovereignty. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gysm4jXG