Dell helps build UK's Sunrise fusion AI supercomputer for research

The UK government has announced a £45 million investment to build ‘Sunrise’, an AI-focused supercomputer for fusion research.

• Main announcement: The UK government (DESNZ) is funding £45 million to build Sunrise, a 1.4MW mission-focused AI supercomputer delivering 6.76 Exaflops of AI-accelerated modelling, targeted to begin operation in June 2026, located in the Oxbridge innovation corridor and dedicated to fusion energy research.
• Background and implementation details:Dell Technologies designed and delivered the compute infrastructure, working with AMD, Intel, WEKA, University of Cambridge, and the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA); Sunrise will support programmes including LIBRTI and STEP and uses dense, AI-optimised server configurations with rapid data storage to meet the 1.4MW power envelope constraint.