Texas A&M unveils new research and AI Compute Center. A new facility under construction on Texas A&M's innovation and technology campus in Bryan, Texas, will make advanced AI and high-performance computing capacity available to research, public sector and industry users. Texas A&M University has partnered with This Way Global to unveil the Reveille AI Compute Center, a new research and AI compute center located on the RELLIS campus. The center will provide advanced AI and high-performance computing capacity to eligible research, public sector, and industry users. The RACC will use This Way Global's sovereign blueprint and will offer a new vision for AI and high-performance computing. The center is expected to be completed in the summer of 2027 and will have a total of 73 megawatts of power once all phases are complete. The RACC will also feature a system for recapturing and recycling its own water, reducing its reliance on the water system. The partnership between Texas A&M and This Way Global aims to deliver research and provide a high-powered computing center for the university, with a focus on benefiting the citizens of Texas. The RACC is expected to have a significant impact on the region, with potential for job creation and economic growth. The center will also provide opportunities for students to work with AI and for researchers to access advanced computing resources. The first phase of the project, a 20-megawatt computing center, is scheduled for completion in the summer of 2027. This Way Global's founder and board chair, Angela Hood, emphasized the importance of the partnership, stating that it will allow for the delivery of research and the provision of a high-powered computing center for the university. The RACC will also host events and symposia, with the first event held on Tuesday, featuring panel discussions on the different facets of the project. The center's completion is expected to bring significant benefits to the region, including job creation, economic growth, and access to advanced computing resources. The RACC's focus on sovereignty and recycling its own water also highlights its commitment to sustainability and reducing its environmental impact. As the project progresses, it is expected to have a lasting impact on the region and the field of AI research. The partnership between Texas A&M and This Way Global demonstrates the potential for collaboration between academia and industry, and the RACC is expected to be a model for future research and computing centers. The RACC's advanced AI and high-performance computing capacity will also provide opportunities for researchers to work on complex projects, such as weather modeling and disease research. The center's ability to provide access to advanced computing resources will also enable researchers to make new discoveries and advancements in their fields. Overall, the Reveille AI Compute Center is expected to be a significant addition to the region, providing opportunities for research, job creation, and economic growth, while also highlighting the importance of sustainability and reducing environmental impact. BBC series deliberately uses 'more organic' shots to assure viewers animals are not AI-generated, producers say. As part of a $3.6 million grant-funded program starting next fall, a private Presbyterian university in Kerrville, Texas, will give AI certifications to all first-year students and make them available to others. Unlike other cities in the Birmingham metro area, the mayor of Irondale, Ala., says that the city won't temporarily halt data center development within city limits, instead looking at regulations. The Ulster County Sheriff's Office said that it has decided not to move ahead with artificial intelligence-assisted report writing after a trial period. Published: 2026-10-23 20:32 | Source: The Verge " AI Jack Dorsey's Block announced an AI model, Dessa, that's trained entirely on human conversations. Published: 2026-10-23 20:06 | Source: TechCrunch " AI Hosted by TechCrunch in partnership with Fidelity Private Shares, the full-day event goes beyond fundraising and AI to explore the realities of finding customers, building teams, sharpening a pitch, developing founder leadership, and scaling companies both inside and outside traditional startup hubs.

New compute center at RELLIS unveiled in symposium. By STEPHEN WHITAKER, The Eagle, Bryan, Texas The Tribune Content Agency Updated October 21, 2026 9:56 AM Gift Article The new Research and AI Compute Center on Texas A&M's RELLIS campus received an updated name at Tuesday's symposium held by leaders of This Way Global. While the acronym of RACC will remain the same, in order to celebrate the partnership with Texas A&M, the R will now stand for Reveille in honor of the First Lady of Texas A&M, Reveille X. "When we first got started, obviously there was a lot of partnerships that we had to form through this, and Texas A&M System, Texas A&M University and RELLIS campus leadership were monumental help in getting the vision brought to plan," This Way Global founder and board chair Angela Hood said. "This is a building that was planned a long time ago. It's not our original design, but what we have changed in this building is very significant. It's much more about innovation, much more about having digital twins, about having different types of hardware in there so the researchers can do what's very important to all of us as a society. We want to really tie it to A&M and so with the agreement from Texas A&M System we get to now call it Reveille AI Compute Center." On Sept. 30 the sale of the RELLIS Data and Research Center to This Way Global was completed allowing construction to continue on the building currently unfinished on the northwest side of the RELLIS campus. On Tuesday, This Way Global leaders held a symposium at the Annenberg Presidential Conference Center to give a first look at the RACC when it is scheduled to open next summer. The RACC will make advanced AI and HPC capacity available to eligible research, public sector and industry users. It will use This Way Global's sovereign blueprint and will see the completion of a project on the RELLIS campus that had stalled when the company which had originated the plan went bankrupt. "Two years ago, I came here and met in the basement of a building here on campus and we ended up meeting with some of the most advanced and brightest deans, professors and researchers tasked with delivering on a mission that was truly important," This Way Global's Stephan Fabel said in remarks during the symposium. "A lot of what we observe today in the market is, you see a lot of concern about data centers, you see a lot of concern about AI, you see a lot of concern about all the accelerated computing initiatives that are going on around us. "[RACC] offers a new vision. It offers a new foundation for why we're doing it. And because we have that new rationale and because we have a differentiated approach to the problem, this is also why we've seen so much positive feedback on our initiative, as compared to other initiatives who unfortunately are not in the same boat." After the symposium, Hood shared with The Eagle more on why This Way Global, which celebrated its 10th anniversary as a company on Sept. 30, wanted to partner with Texas A&M to see the project through to completion and provide a high-powered computing center for the university. "Texas A&M System is host to many Texas agencies, has so much impact across the state. And so we need to have those discussions with them very quickly to make sure that we're not having the compute go to everyone else and we don't have any for [A&M]," Hood said. "The most important one is going to be delivering research. Right now, it's very difficult for academic researchers, industry researchers to get access to enough of GPUs across a continuum of time that's the right time to build a model. So whether it be a weather model, maybe it's a model to help with the screwworm epidemic that we have. These are types of models that the state would really benefit from, and there's no better way to use sovereign compute than for the benefit of the citizens of where that compute is." The symposium consisted of three panel discussions about the different facets of the RACC project from what it will mean for Texas A&M to how the investments came about and the importance of RACC for job creation in the region. Fabel hosted the first panel with Arnold Castro, a professor of practice for AI in the Mays College of Business and Dr. Robert Hardin, an associate professor in the College of Biological and Agricultural Engineering. Castro spoke about what RACC will be able to do for students who might be interested in working with AI. "It's going to be massive," Castro said. "What I would start with is there's a lot of these startups... If you guys think about the mid-90s, right? There are a lot of parallels happening today. Every student out there was trying to start something. They all had amazing ideas. The World Wide Web launched. And everybody's trying to do something with it. That's what we are today. Today, we have students on campus that are launching multimillion-dollar companies that already have offers on the table." Hardin spoke on the ways that having the RACC at RELLIS will help train future farmers and ranchers. "We often have an image that agriculture is not a data-driven industry," Hardin said. "In fact, we have a tremendous amount of data. It's a really complicated problem. If you look at some of the traditional applications of computer vision. In ag we have many variables that will affect [us]. As we develop robotics, of course, there's a lot of applications there for being able to identify a product to harvest, navigation, and that's certainly a growing area." The RACC also will have a system where it recaptures and recycles its own water so that it does not have to link into the water system. This Way Global is planning to host another event in December with the building's phase one construction scheduled for completion in the summer of 2027. The first phase will be a 20-megawatt computing center. Once all phases are complete, the building will have 73 megawatts of power. This story was originally published October 21, 2026 at 9:47 AM.

ThisWay Global plans 73MW AI and HPC data center in Bryan, Texas. Will offer compute to researchers, public sector, and industry users October 09, 2026 Sovereign AI and high-performance computing (HPC) provider ThisWay Global Inc. is planning a 73MW data center project in Bryan, Texas. Dubbed the Research and AI Compute Center (RACC), the data center will be located at the Texas A&M-Rellis campus, a public university in the state, and will offer access to AI and HPC compute for eligible researchers, public sector, and industry users. The data center will be developed in phases and is planned for a 25-acre site, subject to approvals. According to ThisWay Global, the facility will use closed-loop, direct-to-chip liquid cooling RACC will offer sovereign AI compute capacity, using TWG's Amalgamy.ai software - an orchestration layer. Based on its Sovereign Blueprint framework, it aims to help support research and innovation collaboration. "RACC is an opportunity to demonstrate how AI and high-performance computing digital infrastructure can be developed as an accountable, governed institutional capability, one that can support Texas research, innovation and workforce opportunity," said Angela Hood, founder and executive chairman of ThisWay Global. "We intend to advance this development in collaboration with A&M-Rellis leadership, local stakeholders and qualified partners, with a focus on responsible infrastructure and meaningful community benefit in the Bryan-College Station region." "The future of this development will be shaped by disciplined engineering, collaboration and compliance with the legal, regulatory, contractual and community requirements that apply to a project of this importance," Hood added. ThisWay Global was founded in 2016 and is based in Austin, Texas. The company worked with governments, enterprises, universities, and research institutions on governed AI and high-performance computing infrastructure. The company has previously provided a GB300 NVL72 cluster to Texas Tech University. Hood founded the company with seed money generated by selling her 1967 Ford Mustang convertible in 2015. More in HPC & quantum.