Vattenfall Hydro to Power Finnish Computer Tracking Pandemics

Vattenfall AB secured a deal to supply a super computer in Finland with hydro power to run programs that track pandemics and climate change.

Costing about $160 million and built by Hewlett Packard Enterprises, the European Union-funded LUMI computer will begin operations next year in Kajaani in central Finland, said the Swedish utility Tuesday. The computer will be housed in a former paper plant and will be one of the world’s fastest, equal to the bundled performance of 1.5 million laptops.

Supercomputers consume vast amounts of power and it was important to the unit’s non-profit Finnish developers CSC to ...