Mexico Unveils Plans To Build Most Powerful Supercomputer In Latin America (apnews.com)
(Wednesday November 26, 2025 @10:30PM (BeauHD)
from the what-to-expect dept.)
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- News link: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/11/26/2330218/mexico-unveils-plans-to-build-most-powerful-supercomputer-in-latin-america
- Source link: https://apnews.com/article/mexico-supercomputer-coatlicue-sheinbaum-f57bed10440f0fe0825139d7d792b9fb
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press:
> Mexico unveiled plans Wednesday to build what it [1]claims will be Latin America's most powerful supercomputer -- a project the government says will help the country capitalize on the rapidly evolving uses of artificial intelligence and exponentially expand the country's computing capacity. Dubbed "Coatlicue" for the Mexica goddess considered the earth mother, the supercomputer would be seven times more powerful than the region's current leader in Brazil, Jose Merino, head of the Telecommunications and Digital Transformation Agency.
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> President Claudia Sheinbaum said during her morning news briefing that the location for the project had not been decided yet, but construction will begin next year. "We're very excited," said Sheinbaum, an academic and climate scientist. "It is going to allow Mexico to fully get in on the use of artificial intelligence and the processing of data that today we don't have the capacity to do." Merino said that Mexico's most powerful supercomputer operates at 2.3 petaflops -- a unit to measure computing speed, meaning it can perform one quadrillion operations per second. Coatlicue would have a capacity of 314 petaflops.
[1] https://apnews.com/article/mexico-supercomputer-coatlicue-sheinbaum-f57bed10440f0fe0825139d7d792b9fb
> Mexico unveiled plans Wednesday to build what it [1]claims will be Latin America's most powerful supercomputer -- a project the government says will help the country capitalize on the rapidly evolving uses of artificial intelligence and exponentially expand the country's computing capacity. Dubbed "Coatlicue" for the Mexica goddess considered the earth mother, the supercomputer would be seven times more powerful than the region's current leader in Brazil, Jose Merino, head of the Telecommunications and Digital Transformation Agency.
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> President Claudia Sheinbaum said during her morning news briefing that the location for the project had not been decided yet, but construction will begin next year. "We're very excited," said Sheinbaum, an academic and climate scientist. "It is going to allow Mexico to fully get in on the use of artificial intelligence and the processing of data that today we don't have the capacity to do." Merino said that Mexico's most powerful supercomputer operates at 2.3 petaflops -- a unit to measure computing speed, meaning it can perform one quadrillion operations per second. Coatlicue would have a capacity of 314 petaflops.
[1] https://apnews.com/article/mexico-supercomputer-coatlicue-sheinbaum-f57bed10440f0fe0825139d7d792b9fb
Get religion (Score:1)
by Iamthecheese ( 1264298 )
They need to read Proverbs 27:1
Excellent if they find a use for it (Score:3)
I know of several places that have built "the biggest supercomputer in..." some arbitrary geographical area where the said supercomputer basically does nothing except getting obsolete.
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If it came on line now it would be the 10th fastest supercomputer in the world.
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It wouldn’t surprise me if cheeto ordered the various national labs to start mining crypto.
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Of course. And also ordered paying for it by "savings" from all that soshulism, like roads and so on. Just as long as any loss is still public and any profit is kept private.