National Compute to Donate $100M in Compute Credits to Trump Administration for Genesis Mission

National Compute, a new company aggregating compute resources from major technology firms, plans to donate $100 million in compute credits to the Trump administration to support the federal government's Genesis mission, an initiative aimed at accelerating scientific breakthroughs with artificial intelligence.

According to two people familiar with the matter, the donation will be formally announced at an event on October 8, with Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, expected to attend. The resources are intended for researchers working on the Genesis mission, which has faced challenges accessing advanced compute as much of the frontier capacity is locked up in long-term contracts by large buyers.

National Compute is building what it calls the National Compute Grid, a network aggregating compute from multiple providers for researchers, businesses and government agencies. Project documents compare the grid to an electrical grid or interstate highway system, connecting previously isolated compute resources into a shared network.

The grid is expected to integrate resources from labs and cloud providers using Nvidia, AMD and Google TPU processors, with users paying based on actual compute consumption. National Compute has support from major chipmakers, cloud providers, infrastructure firms and universities, and aims to aggregate 2 gigawatts of compute capacity by 2030, with 750 megawatts secured so far.