A new modular data center offering
Containerized Edge data center company Armada has raised $131 million from investors and launched a new megawatt-scale product.
The new funding round includes new investors Pinegrove Veriten and Glade Brook, as well as participation from existing investors such as Founders Fund, Lux Capital, Shield Capital, 8090 Industries, M12 (Microsoft's Venture Fund), Overmatch, Silent Ventures, Felicis, and Marlinspike.
In conjunction with the investment round, Armada has launched its new modular AI data center offering - Leviathan.
Part of Armada's Galleon product line, Leviathan is the "larger counterpart" to its Triton data center offering, with ten times the compute capacity, making it a MW-scale offering.
Leviathan uses liquid-cooling.
Armada says that Leviathan can be deployed in remote, mission-critical environments and can be colocated with stranded natural gas, solar, nuclear, or other alternative energy sources.
In a whitepaper also published by Armada, the company estimates that there is around 6GW of stranded energy in the US that could be utilized with Leviathan for AI compute.
The offering can be deployed in weeks and runs on the Armada Edge Platform.
"American energy and AI dominance hinges on one thing: moving massive compute to the Edge—fast—where data and low-cost power live," said Dan Wright, co-founder and CEO of Armada.
"Leviathan, the newest member of our Galleon product line, does exactly that. Each unit delivers megawatt-scale performance in a fraction of the time and much more flexibly than traditional data centers, due to their ability to rapidly adapt to changes in AI chips and cooling, and co-locate with all available land and energy, regardless of its form or location. This latest product launch and funding further accelerate our mission to bridge the digital divide and ensure that the world runs on the American AI stack."
"From day one, we backed Armada because they saw what others missed: America's AI leadership hinges on owning the entire stack—from power and silicon to software—and being able to deploy it anywhere," added Trae Stephens, partner at Founders Fund and early Armada backer.
"Leviathan drives that vision forward, expanding the Galleon lineup from suitcase-sized Edge nodes for lightweight analytics and inference to megawatt-scale modules that can train and serve frontier models in the harshest environments. With a Galleon for every workload, Armada keeps US and allied AI efforts a step ahead."
Armada has deployments already planned with Fidelis New Energy and Bakken Energy, which will use underutilized natural gas to power the data centers.
So far in 2025, Armada has deployed its Edge containerized data centers with Tampnet for offshore oil rigs, the US Navy in South Carolina, Aramco in Saudi Arabia, and Newlab in Detroit and Riyadh.
In July 2024, Microsoft's M12 led another funding round for Armada which raised $40 million. At the time, the company said this brought its total funding to more than $100m.
