DOE and NVIDIA Team to Power AI with Energy Leadership

The U.S. Department of Energy announced a partnership with NVIDIA on the Genesis Mission and the construction of two AI supercomputers at Argonne National Laboratory.

• Main announcement: DOE and NVIDIA are building two AI supercomputers at Argonne National Laboratory: Equinox (being stood up now with 10,000 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GPUs) and Solstice (planned with 100,000 GPUs using NVIDIA Vera Rubin, described as ~5,000 exaflops). The work is part of the DOE’s Genesis Mission to apply AI to scientific discovery and will make the technology and software stacks available for broader scientific use.
• Background and additional details: DOE brings 17 national labs and scientific data; NVIDIA brings the full stack (chips, algorithms, software) and two decades of lab partnerships. DOE emphasized energy pillars (natural gas, nuclear, coal), noted three SMRs will go critical by July 4 (this year), has stood up a strategic fusion office, and highlighted that AI can shorten grid interconnection studies from years to weeks/hours. NVIDIA cited generation-to-generation gains (Hopper→Blackwell: 30x performance, 25x performance per watt).