en.Wedoany.com Reported - Jefferson Lab broke ground last Friday on a 30,000-square-foot (2,787-square-meter) data center—the Jefferson Lab Data Center.
The data center will be built on the lab's campus in Newport News, Virginia, to support the U.S. Department of Energy's (DoE) High-Performance Data Facility (HPDF) project. HPDF is a data management infrastructure project awarded to Jefferson Lab by the DoE in October 2023.
The data center will house a 10,000-square-foot (929-square-meter) data hall, with an additional 10,000 square feet of space for infrastructure equipment.
The facility will serve as the "foundational infrastructure" for the DoE-led Genesis Mission, which aims to "advance artificial intelligence priorities in science and energy."
The Commonwealth of Virginia provided funding for the project, including $43.3 million in committed funds and $6 million in seed funding.
Details on the facility's construction timeline have not yet been announced. Newport News is located in the Hampton Roads region of eastern Virginia.
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