Greenland Institute of Natural Resources launches new AI Server Published 11.12.2025

The Greenland Institute of Natural Resources is proud to announce that our new high-performance AI server system is officially up and running – marking a major leap forward for scientific computing in Greenland.

A little over a year ago, we established an institute-wide IT group with members from all departments. One of its first priorities was clear: to modernize our data storage, streamline data workflows, and secure the computing power needed for advanced, AI-driven research. Many of our projects – from image recognition and 3D modelling to high-resolution environmental data analysis – require processing capacities far beyond what standard work computers can provide.

“We turned a simple idea into a concrete plan and developed a proposal that was ultimately funded by the Carlsberg Foundation” says Diana Krawczyk. After a year of planning, procurement, and setup, the system is now fully operational. The local company COMBY A/S performed the installation in the headquarter of the institute in Nuuk in collaboration with global technology leaders Dell Inc. and NVIDIA Inc.

The grant from the Carlsberg Foundation made the installation of Greenland’s most powerful scientific computing system possible, and after a year of planning, procurement, and setup, the system is now fully operational.

“This is now the fastest computing power in all of Greenland” says Michael Collin from COMBY A/S, “and we are proud to make this happen”.

The new AI infrastructure will dramatically accelerate the scientific computing capabilities of the institute. “We now have a new setup that offers unmatched speed and capacity for AI, data processing and modelling, and other heavy-duty computing work for our Arctic research” says Aqqaluk Sørensen. Tasks such as training machine-learning models, processing terabytes of field data, running simulations, and rendering complex 3D environments can now be completed in a fraction of the time.

Every year, our scientists collect vast amounts of data – often directly from the environment just outside our doorstep. “The real challenge has always been processing these data efficiently and turning them into knowledge that benefits both society and the scientific community” says Karl Zinglersen. With this upgraded server system, we can do exactly that: faster, smarter, and at a level never before possible.

This technological milestone strengthens our position as a key institution for cutting-edge Arctic research and demonstrates that Greenland is central to the future of environmental science in the Arctic.