UKIFS Awards £7.9M Contract to Boxxe for Modular HPC Data Center at Culham Science Centre
UK Industrial Fusion Solutions Ltd (UKIFS) has awarded a £7.87 million contract to Boxxe Ltd to deliver a modular high-performance computing (HPC) data center. The facility will likely be located at the Culham Science Centre in Abingdon, Oxfordshire.
The contract includes the installation of a modular data center with CPU and GPU nodes, along with long-term support and maintenance. The deal was awarded through the Southern University Purchasing Consortium framework for High Performance Computing, with Dell Technologies supplying the hardware.
UKIFS is leading the STEP Fusion program, aiming to develop the UK's first prototype fusion energy plant, which seeks to harness electricity from fusion reactors. Major tech companies are investing in fusion energy for future data center power solutions.
