Armada CEO: Armada deployed first modular data center in Saudi desert
Dan Wright · Data Centers in Space? Armada’s CEO on SpaceX and the Edge · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea · Jan 26, 2026 · at 6:24
Armada CEO Dan Wright describes extreme environment deployments of Armada's modular computing infrastructure to host Molly O'Shea.
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“We were the first modular data center ever to be deployed in the middle of the summer in the desert in Saudi Arabia with Aramco working with Microsoft.”
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