AI supercomputer · Germany
hessian.AI fortytwo
hessian.AI fortytwo is an AI supercomputer in Germany, with 199 H100e of compute, owned by hessian.AI.
Facts
Every value links to its source, and to the source's own record where it has one. Licences and last-checked dates are per row.
| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Germany | Epoch AI supercomputers · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Planckstraße 1, 64291 Darmstadt, Germany | Epoch AI supercomputers · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Operating | Epoch AI supercomputers · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Start year | 2023 | Epoch AI supercomputers · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Owner type | Public | Epoch AI supercomputers · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Owner | hessian.AI | Epoch AI supercomputers · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Compute (H100 equivalents) | 199 H100e | Epoch AI supercomputers · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Chips | NVIDIA A100 | Epoch AI supercomputers · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| AI chips | 632 | Epoch AI supercomputers · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Facility power | 0.5 MW (estimated) | Epoch AI supercomputers · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 49.9315, 8.6776 | Epoch AI supercomputers · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
Research on this AI supercomputer and its owner.Who owns it up to the parent company, its permits and status, and an introduction to the owner.
Request researchHow it compares by compute
hessian.AI fortytwo is the 6th-largest of 11 AI supercomputers in Germany by compute, with 199 H100e. Ranks and totals cover the AI supercomputers in our data that report their compute, not every one in existence.
| Within | Rank |
|---|---|
| Germany | 6th of 11 |
| All AI supercomputers in our data | 186th of 284 |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this AI supercomputer: 191 substations, 98 data centers, 96 power plants (62 operating, 2,682 MW) and 7 CO2 emitters (2,612,062 tCO2e), measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Umspannanlage Leonhardstanne | Substation | — | — | 0.4 km |
| 110 kV substation (OSM way/31718547) | Substation | — | — | 4.7 km |
| Umspannanlage Darmstadt-Nord | Substation | — | — | 5.1 km |
| NIC | Data center | — | — | 6.3 km |
| DARZ - Darmstädter Rechenzentrum | Data center | — | — | 6.6 km |
| Destination Earth Data Bridge | Data center | — | — | 8.3 km |
| GT2 (Langen (Hessen)) | Power plant | 18.9 MW | Operating | 8.7 km |
| Photovoltaik-Kraftwerk Büttelborn | Power plant | 17.1 MW | Planned | 9.4 km |
| G-E0-070-GEN-4-GS-1 | Power plant | 115 MW | Operating | 17 km |
Owner and place
Other AI supercomputers in Germany
- "Jupiter, Jülich"23,536 H100e
- JUWELS-Booster1,181 H100e
- FZJ Jureca242 H100e
- Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Raven242 H100e
- Karlsruher Institut für Technologie HoreKa233 H100e
- Aleph Alpha alpha ONE161 H100e
- TU Dresden AlphaCentauri86 H100e
- Universitaet Frankfurt Goethe-NHR80 H100e
Data on this page
- Epoch AI. Epoch AI supercomputers, CC BY 4.0.
- Bundesnetzagentur, Marktstammdatenregister. Marktstammdatenregister, DL-DE-BY-2.0.
- © OpenStreetMap contributors. OpenStreetMap data centers, ODbL 1.0.
- OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass). OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass), ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors.