NVIDIA and Oracle to Build US Energy Department's Largest AI Supercomputer
NVIDIA and Oracle are set to build the largest AI supercomputer of the US Department of Energy, with scientific discovery as its stated purpose. The project was announced by NVIDIA in a news release dated September 28, 2026.
- NVIDIA and Oracle will build the US Department of Energy's largest AI supercomputer.
- The system is intended for scientific discovery, according to NVIDIA's announcement title.
- The available source text gives no specifications, costs, location or timeline.
- NVIDIA's newsroom lists other recent news, including a $150 billion share repurchase authorization increase.
What the announcement says
According to its title, NVIDIA's release describes a partnership with Oracle to build the US Department of Energy's largest AI supercomputer. The system is intended for scientific discovery. NVIDIA supplies the AI computing side of the effort, and Oracle is named as the second builder.
The text available for this report contains only the headline and a list of other NVIDIA news items. It does not give technical specifications, the system's name, its location, its cost, the number of chips or a delivery schedule. Those details are therefore not reported here, and readers should consult NVIDIA's full release for them.
Other NVIDIA news on the same page
The newsroom page lists several other announcements from recent weeks, which show how broad NVIDIA's activity is at the moment:
- A $150 billion share repurchase authorization increase, dated September 28, 2026.
- The launch of an Open Agent Safety Platform to secure agents from testing to deployment, also dated September 28, 2026.
- An expansion of the open source CUDA-Q platform for fault-tolerant quantum computing, dated September 14, 2026.
- A collaboration with Palantir to bring sovereign intelligence to critical supply chains, dated September 10, 2026.
- An expansion of AI infrastructure capacity in partnership with Australia's data center ecosystem, dated September 9, 2026.
What it means
Based on the headline alone, the project places NVIDIA and Oracle at the center of a US government effort to apply AI computing to science. The stated goal is scientific discovery, and the system is described as the largest of its kind at the Department of Energy. How it will be used, who will have access and when it will go into operation are questions the available text does not answer.
