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Wright Announces $1 Billion AMD Supercomputer Partnership at Oak Ridge

October 27, 2025 · U.S. Department of Energy · 0:03:26

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What happened

Fox Business reported on October 27, 2025 that the Department of Energy signed a $1 billion deal with Advanced Micro Devices to build two next-generation supercomputers, Lux and Discovery, for nuclear power, cancer treatment, and national security problems, with technology from AMD, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Oracle Cloud at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, as stated in the segment, according to the Department of Energy. The segment said Lux would be running in less than six months with three times the AI capacity of current supercomputers, and the more advanced Discovery would operate in 2029, with DOE hosting the machines, companies providing machines and capital, and both sides sharing computing power, as stated there.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the speed came from President Trump getting government to move at the speed of business rather than a normal procurement process, with companies building on DOE land and splitting computing power between commercial and science uses, as he stated it. On expected innovations, Wright named understanding cancerous tumors at the molecular level to turn death-sentence cancers into manageable conditions, and accelerating fusion energy research with AI, as he stated them.

Wright said more such deals are coming and called the partnership a role model for a government-wide effort to keep the United States in the lead in AI, as he stated it.

Why it matters

The announcement is a dated technology commitment — Lux operational in under six months, Discovery in 2029, as stated in the segment — with named private partners and a shared-compute model Wright said would be replicated.

Scoreboard watch

The segment states Lux would be up and running in less than six months from October 27, 2025, and Discovery in 2029 — dated, checkable delivery claims.

Sources: U.S. Department of Energy, “Secretary Wright Joins Fox Business’ Madison Alworth - October 27, 2025”, 2025-10-27 (official upload, embedded above; published 2025-10-27). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.