UK’s ARIA will test Lumai’s light-based AI servers in a data centre
Open the sourceReported by The Next Web, thenextweb.com, 3 November 2026, by Darius Popa
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ARIA’s Scaling Inference Lab will deploy Lumai’s Iris servers, which use beams of light to run AI calculations, as its first optical platform. The lab will test the servers in a commercial data centre. Lumai claims big energy savings, but these have not been independently tested. The UK’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) will [story truncated].
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