09 · Hardware & Infrastructure

Cluster

A networked array of GPUs

A large array of networked GPUs (often tens of thousands) working as one training system. The physical embodiment of “compute,” housed in data centres whose construction drives much of the capital spending you see announced.

Concrete example

Colossus — xAI's Memphis system, now part of SpaceX — reports a 200,000-GPU interconnected cluster.

Evidence

Sources for this definition

  1. 1
    Colossus: The World's Largest AI Supercomputer

    xAI / SpaceX · Documentation · checked 2026-07-13

  2. 2
    xAI joins SpaceX

    xAI / SpaceX · Announcement · checked 2026-07-13