News · Report · 20 October 2026 · Jan Gerstein
GTC Berlin: inside a modular data centre
At GTC Berlin, Armada showed one of its Galleon containers live. Our Managing Director Jan Gerstein went inside, between the racks. A short report from an energy engineering perspective.
A data centre that gets delivered
A modular data centre does not come as a building but prefabricated in a container: racks, power distribution and cooling are usually built in. Armada calls its container family Galleon. According to the manufacturer, it ranges from suitcase-sized units up to the 10 MW Orion model (source: armada.ai). It is meant for places where data is generated or has to stay, such as a factory site.
The container does not bring its own power
Setting it up is quick. Running it is another matter: every container needs a grid connection with sufficient capacity, confirmed by the network operator – from a few hundred kilowatts usually at medium voltage with a dedicated transformer. A battery next to it buffers load peaks and shifts power from a PV system into the night. And all of this has to be agreed with the network operator long before the container arrives, because in practice connection confirmations and transformers have the longer lead times.
Exactly our field
Grid connection and applications, transformer and medium voltage, PV, battery storage, metering concept and coordination of the trades: that is the energy side of such a project, and it is what we do. For mid-sized companies that want to run AI on their own premises, we have summarised the stages from a server in the office to a container data centre: On-premise AI for mid-sized companies
StromWert is not a partner of Armada or NVIDIA. This article is an editorial report; product information comes from the manufacturer.