At a glance
- Silknet broke ground in August 2026 on a Tbilisi data center planned at 2MW of compute capacity, due online in 2027.
- The announcement did not disclose a GPU count.
- Allocators weighing the two face different profiles: Fuse Energy offers a near-term capacity tranche and 142MW of connections across 15 projects; Silk Cloud has a 2MW site and a 2027 launch conditional on permits.
Silk Cloud said it plans to deploy HPE Nvidia HGX B300 systems running Nvidia Blackwell Ultra GPUs at its data centers in the country of Georgia, targeting a 2027 launch once it has the necessary permits.
Silknet broke ground in August 2026 on a Tbilisi data center planned at 2MW of compute capacity, due online in 2027. The announcement did not disclose a GPU count. Silknet, a Georgian telecom operator since 2009, launched Silk Cloud in 2025.
Allocators weighing the two face different profiles: Fuse Energy offers a near-term capacity tranche and 142MW of connections across 15 projects; Silk Cloud has a 2MW site and a 2027 launch conditional on permits.
Fuse, a UK company that describes itself as a full-stack energy company, will run 128 Nvidia GPUs online in December in UK data centers it hosts and powers. It is selling the capacity as "Fuse Compute." "The hardest part of scaling compute today is getting power to the site, which is the part we already do," the company said in a LinkedIn post.
Reported by the Data centers & fiber desk from Data Center Dynamics. Published . Corrections