Figure to deploy up to 100,000 NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPUs with Nscale, starting at $3.5B
LexiLove · x · 2026-09-04
- Robotics company Figure, with cloud partner Nscale, is deploying up to 100,000 NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPUs to train general-purpose humanoids.
- It is committing $3.5 billion initially, with plans to scale beyond $6 billion.
- Deployment starts in H2 2027 at a data center in Barstow, Texas.
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