The Giant Supercomputer Built to Transform an Entire Country—and Paid For by Ozempic
When she decided to uproot her life and move halfway across the world to run a company in a place where she had never lived, Nadia Carlsten wasn’t really sure what to expect.
But the American engineer with a passion for technology management definitely wasn’t expecting to be treated like a celebrity.
“I feel like the most popular person wherever I go,” Carlsten says. “I can just start the conversation with: I have over 1,500 GPUs—and everyone wants to talk to me.”
Carlsten has precisely 1,528 of the most powerful graphics-processing units on the planet because she just started as the chief executive of the Danish Centre for AI Innovation. The new company was built to run Denmark’s national AI supercomputer, which opened last week with a glitzy launch party where Carlsten was once again the center of attention.
