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Mexico Signs Deal With Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Unveils National HPC Hub and Plan for Latin America’s Largest Public Supercomputer

The pact provides access to BSC’s compute from January 2026 as Mexico builds a sovereign system focused on climate modeling, fiscal and customs analytics, agricultural imaging and government AI.

Overview

  • Officials signed a cooperation agreement to establish the Centro Mexicano de Supercómputo, which will begin operating in January 2026 using BSC resources.
  • The government said construction of a domestically owned supercomputer will start in 2026 and is expected to take 24 to 36 months, targeting full deployment around 2028.
  • Priority workloads include advanced weather and climate prediction, large-scale SAT and customs data processing, analysis of millions of agricultural satellite images and training of large language models for public institutions.
  • Authorities emphasized that data processed under the collaboration will remain under Mexican custody as part of a broader push for technological sovereignty under Plan México.
  • The collaboration includes technology transfer and researcher training in Barcelona, ensuring immediate capacity and skills development while Mexico builds out its own infrastructure.