El Salvador has taken another decisive step into the world of artificial intelligence. President Nayib Bukele publicly announced on his X account that he had “just bought a computer 🤓”, accompanied by a photo of himself standing next to a Supermicro SuperServer powered by NVIDIA Blackwell B300 GPUs—one of the most advanced AI machines available today.
While the post was casual in tone, the hardware shown is anything but ordinary. This type of system is normally found in major AI labs, large research institutions, and global tech companies.
It represents a level of computing power that places El Salvador among the first nations to deploy next-generation Blackwell technology.
An AI Super Server, Not a Regular Machine
The machine displayed is more accurately described as a super server for AI—a high-performance data-center-grade system designed for training large models, robotics, automation, national digital services, and complex AI workloads.
Although a single unit is not a classical “supercomputer,” its performance far exceeds many older HPC clusters and vastly surpasses what most governments currently operate.
To put this in perspective:
- Skynet in Terminator 3: 60 teraflops
- NVIDIA B300 (FP4 Tensor Core): up to 144,000 teraflops
- NVIDIA B300 (FP32): ~600 teraflops
This means even one of these servers delivers thousands of times more power than what Hollywood once imagined as a world-dominating AI.
Earlier This Year: Priority Access to B300 GPUs
This announcement aligns with headlines from mid-2024 when El Salvador secured priority access to NVIDIA’s Blackwell B300 platform—something only a handful of countries or institutions have achieved.
The move strengthens the country’s broader strategy for building sovereign AI capabilities, supported by:
- A clear regulatory framework for artificial intelligence
- A dedicated law for robotics
- Rapid adoption of advanced digital and computing infrastructure
- A national strategy to reduce dependency on foreign cloud resources
El Salvador is positioning itself as one of the first nations with a legal, strategic, and technological foundation for next-generation AI.
A Strategic Investment With High Impact
Servers of this class typically cost between $430,000 and $600,000 USD per unit, depending on configuration.
This acquisition is more than a symbolic step—it demonstrates that El Salvador is actively building the computational backbone needed for sovereign AI development.
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