Government of Mexico launches Latin America’s largest supercomputer and strengthens technological sovereignty / @Claudiashein @GobiernoMX

#FederalGovernment, #Mexico.- The Government of Mexico has announced the construction of the largest supercomputer in Latin America and the launch of a strategic collaboration with the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC), as part of the programme Mexico, Country of Innovation. The key projects, the National Supercomputing Cluster and the Mexican Supercomputing Centre, were presented by the Agency for Digital Transformation and Telecommunications (ATDT) and the Secretariat of Science, Humanities, Technology and Innovation (Secihti). This initiative marks a historic step in the country’s technological capacity, driving scientific development and data sovereignty.

President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo emphasised that these efforts fulfil the “100 Commitments of the Second Floor of the Fourth Transformation”, aiming to make Mexico a scientific powerhouse. In the morning briefing “Las mañaneras del pueblo”, she stated that the supercomputing network will provide the country with the data-processing capacity required to analyse information quickly and efficiently. This project, which she named “Plan Mexico”, formally begins with a foundational agreement with the Spanish institution.

José Antonio Peña Merino, head of the ATDT, explained that an intensive and unique collaboration framework has been designed, administered by the Secihti and the ATDT through Infotec. Mexican researchers will be able to travel to Barcelona to leverage the BSC’s capabilities, recognised as one of the most advanced centres worldwide, while maintaining full sovereignty over data management to address urgent public challenges. A supercomputer can perform 314 trillion operations per second, something that would take an ordinary computer years, highlighted Jorge Luis Pérez Hernández, national coordinator for Digital Infrastructure at the ATDT.

The Mexican Supercomputing Centre is expected to begin operations in January 2026, consolidating a public supercomputer dedicated to national development. The technology will be available for scientific research, the Federal Government, state governments, and the private sector, with which there is already extensive collaboration in the construction of data centres.

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