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Sovereign AI infrastructure in Nepal

Sovereign AI Cloud, Powered by the Himalayas.

Status: Waitlist

CloudFRM.ai is building GPU compute in Nepal, on a grid the IEA records as almost entirely hydropower, for data that stays in Nepal. Phase 1 hardware is on order; nothing is in service yet.

From the river to the GPU: how CloudFRM.ai is designed to turn hydropower into AI computeA flow in four stages, left to right: Himalayan rivers feed hydropower plants; the plants feed the national grid; the grid powers a data centre in Nepal; the data centre runs NVIDIA HGX B300 GPUs. Each stage is labelled with its status.Himalayan riversHydropower plantsThe national gridData centre in NepalNVIDIA HGX B300
Of Nepal’s electricity from hydropower
Almost all
As the IEA records the grid
Planned GPU platform
NVIDIA HGX B300
Phase 1 hardware on order
Built and run from
Kathmandu, Nepal
Cloud Future Automation Research Matrix Pvt. Ltd.
Ways to buy compute, when it opens
Four tiers
Every one starts with a conversation

Why Nepal

From the Himalayas, to energy, to compute, to the world.

  • Himalayas Snow and glaciers feed the rivers that run south through Nepal.
  • Energy Those rivers generate almost all of Nepal’s electricity: the IEA records the grid as almost entirely hydropower.
  • Compute CloudFRM.ai plans to put that energy to work as AI compute in Nepal, drawing on the national grid.
  • Global Compute in Nepal, for developers and organisations in Nepal and around the world.

Energy use will be published once hardware is in service and metered.

Our sustainability approach

What the platform is built to do

Six things CloudFRM.ai is building. Each carries its status today, and none is in service yet.

The platform in detail

The infrastructure, layer by layer

Seven layers from power to applications. Each carries its honest status; nothing is operational today.

Infrastructure layers and their status
LayerTodayStatus
ComputeNVIDIA HGX B300, the chosen platform. Phase 1 hardware is on order.Status: In progress
FacilityPhase 1 in a third-party data centre in Nepal, under NDA. A facility of our own is on the roadmap.Status: In progress
OrchestrationKubernetes and Slurm: the intended stack, not yet installed.Status: Planned
PowerNepal’s national grid, almost entirely hydropower. No power contract is in place yet.Status: Planned
NetworkFibre transit to global networks, at quotation stage.Status: In progress
Full infrastructure roadmap

Four ways to buy compute

Pricing is not published: every tier opens with a conversation, and the platform is on a waitlist until capacity is in service.

The ecosystem being built on it

Three products of our own, each a first customer of the platform. They open when they have something to show.

Hydropower-sourced, by design

Nepal’s grid is almost entirely hydropower, and CloudFRM.ai is being built to draw on it. That is a commitment about where the power will come from, not a measurement: no hardware is in service, no power contract is signed, and no energy figure will be published until it is metered.

  • The national grid is the source. Nepal’s export capacity is full and clean power is being shed; compute in Nepal can use it.
  • The facility is chosen for it: Phase 1 sits on that grid, in Nepal.
  • Figures follow metering. Once hardware runs, energy use is published as measured, with its method.
How we think about power

Talk to us

One address reaches the team that is building this. Tell us what you want to run, and where your data has to stay.