JUPITER’s computational speed serves its main purpose — to push the capabilities of research in areas such as AI, weather modelling, astrophysics and biomedical research.

It reads like this is just a regular supercomputer (with AI acceleration, but they certainly won’t run some shitty LLM or something on it), but the “AI” was slapped on to get more funding.

100% powered by renewable energy

Is the supercomputer off the grid and powered by an independent renewable source?

The EU says that JUPITER “runs entirely on renewable energy” to limit its impact on the environment. Lippert says that this is achieved by paying to use only renewable energy from Germany’s national grid.

Oh, so it’s greenwashing nonsense and the computer uses the same grid everybody uses, which is only in part powered by renewables. Go figure.

Thinking in terms of water for cooling, looks like it’s on the Ruhr rather than the coast.

This is fucked up