Armada expands modular AI infrastructure from edge deployments to sovereign factories

Armada says it raised $230 million at a $2 billion pre-money valuation earlier this year and launched Galleon Forge 1 with Johnson Controls in Gilbert, Arizona, where it manufactures modular AI data centers. Its Leviathan units provide 2 megawatts each, while the newer Orion form factor provides 10 megawatts per unit. The company says it can deploy from zero to 200 megawatts wherever power is available.

The company is deploying near stranded or curtailed energy, including hydroelectric sites in Norway and wind and solar sites in Australia. Armada says Australia curtailed 7.2 terawatt hours of energy in the prior year because of grid overload, and says a Fossafall deployment could scale beyond one gigawatt over the next few years. These scale figures are presented as plans or expectations, not completed deployments.

Armada says edge systems support low-latency use cases such as processing drone data for avalanche and flood response in Alaska and deployments with the Navy in the middle of the ocean. Its modular systems can be sized for different workloads and chip options, while sovereign AI factories can fine-tune models on proprietary data without sending it to the cloud and distribute updated models to edge sites through federated learning.