Overview
- The government signed a cooperation agreement with the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre to establish a Mexican supercomputing program under a national sovereignty agenda.
- Construction of a domestic machine is slated to begin in January 2026 with an estimated 24–36 month build timeline.
- Mexico will start running priority projects on BSC infrastructure from January 2026 while the local system is assembled.
- Initial applications include advanced climate modeling, processing SAT and customs data, large-scale analysis of agricultural satellite imagery, and training Spanish-language AI models.
- Officials said the system will be called MareNostrum 5 and housed in the National Supercomputing Cluster, a Mexican center will operate within BSC with control over national data, and 177 researchers will train in Barcelona, with a formal presentation expected next week.