The Next Generation of computing services
Samba Nova is coming to the UK
Building a Distributed, Sovereign AI Footprint
Our partnership with SambaNova brings its next-generation AI infrastructure into the UK for the first time, with systems deployed at the Killellan AI Growth Zone in Argyll.
By hosting SambaNova’s ultra-efficient AI platform on a site powered by wind, wave, solar, biogas and waste-to-energy, we’re creating a UK-based home for advanced AI workloads, keeping data, models and operations within UK borders while dramatically reducing energy and cooling demand.
The first eight SambaNova units are expected to be online by the end of Q1 2026, giving UK organisations early access to sovereign, high-performance AI capacity. Over time, we are looking to build a distributed asset approach, extending SambaNova-powered infrastructure across multiple locations to increase resilience, flexibility and proximity to end users.
Powered by wind, wave, solar, biogas and waste-to-energy – from day one
Most AI infrastructure today is powered by grids that are still heavily fossil-fuel based. At Killellan, we are taking a different path.
The Killellan Farm development is a 184-acre green digital campus, designed from the ground up to combine on-site wind, wave, solar, biogas and waste-to-energy generation with advanced data-centre engineering. It will be complemented by regional units deployed across the country to support local businesses and bring compute closer to users.
Key features of the site include:
A private-wire renewable network that supplies power directly from local generation to the data-centre campus, providing certified green energy.
A built-on-demand campus, transforming a worked-out quarry into a strategic new resource for Scotland and eventually replacing the former quarry operations.
Vanadium-flow battery storage enabling “island-mode” operation and smoothing variability in renewable output.
A circular design where waste heat is captured and reused to support vertical farming, aquaculture and local district heating.
The result is an AI platform where clean energy is not an afterthought, but the foundation.
Why SambaNova?
SambaNova is a next-generation AI infrastructure company whose platform spans custom silicon, systems and software. Their SN40L systems and SambaRack architecture are engineered specifically for large-scale AI inference.
A few reasons we chose SambaNova:
Maximum performance per watt
Each SambaNova rack draws around one-tenth of the power of a traditional GPU system while delivering enterprise-grade performance for complex AI workloads. This dramatically reduces both operating cost and environmental impact, and it eliminates the need for liquid cooling.
Built for modern, large-scale models
SN40L is designed to run very large models with long sequence lengths, making it ideal for generative AI, agentic AI and high-throughput inference.
Chips-to-models platform
SambaNova’s full-stack approach – from hardware through to model deployment – gives customers a consistent, optimised environment for running state-of-the-art open-source and commercial models, with strong guarantees around performance and efficiency.
By pairing SambaNova’s platform with our multi-source energy infrastructure, we can deliver high-performance AI with a radically lower energy and carbon footprint.
What this means in practice
The Argyll–SambaNova sovereign AI cloud is being designed for organisations that need serious AI capability without compromising on sovereignty or sustainability.
For developers and ISVs
Fast inference-as-a-service on leading open-source and frontier-scale models.
UK-hosted infrastructure so data and models stay within national borders.
Freedom to innovate on top of a platform that is already optimised for performance per watt.
For enterprises
An energy-aware AI backbone that supports automation, analytics and agentic AI workloads across finance, energy, manufacturing and critical infrastructure.
Lower, more predictable operating costs thanks to energy-efficient hardware and on-site generation.
A clear path to meeting ESG, net-zero and data-sovereignty commitments in a single move.
For government and the public sector
A sovereign-scale AI environment aligned with UK policy goals on secure data handling and responsible AI.
The ability to support socially beneficial use cases in healthcare, agriculture, education and public services, backed by a diverse mix of low-carbon energy sources.
High security models and site sections available.
Are you excited? We are..
We believe this partnership is a genuine step change – not just for Argyll, but for how the UK thinks about AI, energy and sovereignty..
With SambaNova’s infrastructure and our green digital campus, we’re creating a platform where:
Serious AI workloads can run on UK soil, under UK jurisdiction.
Clean energy and advanced compute reinforce each other instead of competing.
Enterprises, innovators and the public sector get access to high-performance AI without compromising on ESG or security.
We’re only at the beginning, but the direction of travel is clear: distributed, sovereign, low-carbon AI that works for the UK’s economy, its communities and its environment.