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6 records Generated from this page's data. Click a name to open its panel on the Places: East Midlands page. Records resting on one source are tagged "one source".| Record | What it is | Place | Links | Confidence |
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| Ada, University of NottinghamData centres and compute sites | Nottingham's GPU-accelerated HPC cluster on 80+ Lenovo servers with NVIDIA A100 and H200 GPUs, delivered with OCF.university GPU clusterKey facts 80+ Lenovo ThinkSystem servers; NVIDIA A100 and H200 (counts not stated); four times the compute of a predecessor that served five years; OCF deployment and premier support; OCF case study dated 2025-07-29 | Nottingham | lenovo.com/sg/en/case-studies-customer-success-s · ocf.co.uk/about-us/latest-news/ · ocf.co.uk/about-us/latest-news/university-of-not | verified |
| Carbon3.ai (Era4) site, Erin Road, ChesterfieldData centres and compute sites | Proposed off-grid AI data centre on a Derbyshire landfill site next to the Erin Powerplant, near the M1 outside Chesterfield. proposedoff-grid landfill AI siteKey facts Power from the Erin Powerplant, which recovers energy from landfill; module capacity not disclosed; company website claimed 50MW available and a 4.5GW pipeline | Chesterfield (Erin Road) | datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/ai-data-center-pl | one source |
| DiRAC Data Intensive service, LeicesterData centres and compute sites | DiRAC data-intensive service at Leicester offering high-memory options; a second data-intensive DiRAC service runs at Cambridge. | Leicester (—) | docs.hpc.shef.ac.uk/en/latest/other-uk-hpc-resou · dirac.ac.uk/data-intensive-leicester/ | one source |
| HPC Midlands PlusNetworks, bodies, events and media | Midlands HPC consortium led by Loughborough University, funded as one of six Tier-2 centres in 2016; runs Sulis at Warwick. | Loughborough (—) | ukri.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/EPSRC-050722 · ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk/?p=7513 | verified |
| Lovelace (Loughborough University HPC)Data centres and compute sites | Loughborough University's £1m supercomputer built by OCF on Lenovo servers, with a small set of NVIDIA V100 GPU nodes.university GPU clusterKey facts £1m (2021-08); 58 Lenovo SD530 compute nodes, three GPU nodes each with two NVIDIA Tesla V100, two visualisation nodes; 800TB Lenovo DSS-G storage (2021-08) | Loughborough | ocf.co.uk/about-us/blog/ocf-works-with-loughboro | one source |
| Node4 (UK Sovereign Cloud)Companies | Managed cloud company running its own UK data centres; sells a UK-only sovereign cloud and Microsoft Copilot and AI services.UK sovereign hybrid cloudKey facts Data centres at Derby (330 racks), Leeds (450 racks) and Northampton (800 racks) (2026-10); "Trusted by 1700+ Businesses" (2026-10); Microsoft Azure Expert MSP; named sovereign cloud customers Brintons Carpets, Aprolis, Stratas (2026-10); registered in England and Wales No. 04759927; no GPU or AI hosting offer published | Derby | node4.co.uk/uk-sovereign-cloud · node4.co.uk/ | one source |