Guyana's 100MW AI Data Centre: Why Computing Core Welcomes the Cerebras Partnership
Guyana and Cerebras Systems are building a 100MW AI data centre at Wales. Here's what was signed, what it unlocks for Guyanese businesses and government, and why Computing Core has been building for this moment for years.
Guyana is going to have one of the most powerful AI facilities in the hemisphere — and Computing Core could not be more excited about it. In November 2025, the Government of Guyana signed a landmark Memorandum of Understanding with Cerebras Systems to build and operate a state-of-the-art artificial intelligence data centre of up to 100MW at Wales, Guyana, as reported by News Room Guyana.
Computing Core is a 100% Guyanese-owned AI development company, building and shipping AI-powered business software from Guyana since 2014 — and we welcome this wholeheartedly. Here's what the deal means, why it matters for every Guyanese business and government agency, and why we're ready for the wave.
What Was Actually Signed?
The Guyana–Cerebras AI data centre at a glance:
| Fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Parties | Government of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana and Cerebras Systems |
| Signed | November 2025 (Memorandum of Understanding) |
| Facility | AI data centre of up to 100MW |
| Location | Wales, Guyana — near the Gas-to-Energy plant |
| Technology | Cerebras CS-3 AI supercomputers |
| Programme | Part of the "Cerebras for Nations" sovereign AI initiative |
| Also committed | Data-sovereignty legislation, training programmes, university partnerships, internships |
Cerebras builds some of the fastest AI compute hardware in the world — their CS-3 systems are purpose-built for training and running large AI models. Placing that class of infrastructure in Wales, powered by Guyana's own Gas-to-Energy project, positions Guyana as a serious destination for startups, researchers and enterprises that need high-performance computing.
President Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali called the partnership "a declaration of Guyana's ambition" — a future where Guyanese talent powers global innovation. We agree, and we'd add: that future needs local software companies ready to put AI to work for Guyanese businesses. That's exactly what we've been doing.
What Does the AI Data Centre Mean for Guyanese Businesses?
A 100MW AI data centre is not just a building full of servers. Here's what it realistically unlocks for the local economy:
- Jobs and skills that stay in Guyana. The MOU commits Cerebras to training programmes, research initiatives, international university partnerships and internships. That means Guyanese developers, data specialists and engineers being trained here — a deeper local talent pool every business benefits from.
- A startup and research ecosystem. The Wales facility is planned as the anchor for education hubs, startup incubators and advanced research centres. Local entrepreneurs with an AI idea will have world-class compute in their own backyard instead of renting it from data centres abroad.
- Data sovereignty. The MOU includes forward-looking legislation to protect national interests in the digital age. For businesses handling sensitive customer, patient or financial records, the direction of travel is clear: Guyanese data governed by Guyanese law on Guyanese soil.
- A signal to the region. Guyana is already the fastest-growing economy in the hemisphere on the back of oil and gas. Pairing that energy capacity with AI infrastructure tells every investor and every diaspora technologist that Guyana intends to lead the Caribbean's digital transformation, not follow it.
The Missing Piece: Local Software That Actually Uses AI
Here's the honest part. World-class infrastructure only changes lives when it reaches the shop floor — the pharmacy counter, the optical clinic's front desk, the freight forwarder's warehouse. Compute in Wales doesn't file your GRA VAT receipts or process your Ministry claims. Software does. And that software has to be built by people who understand how Guyanese businesses actually run.
That's the wave Computing Core has been preparing for — not since the MOU, but for years:
- Our AI Data Entry Clerk is already in production, reading Government of Guyana Spectacles Voucher Programme vouchers from a photo and filing Ministry of Health paperwork automatically for optical shops.
- Every Computing Core POS dashboard ships with a built-in AI content assistant that writes ad copy, product descriptions and review replies for small businesses that don't have a marketing person.
- We build custom AI applications for individual businesses — document extraction, automation, AI-powered analytics — and we work with large language models in production every single day.
- We're building Arawak, an AI-first web browser for Guyana and the Caribbean, because we believe the region deserves technology built for it, not adapted to it.
When the Wales data centre comes online, the businesses that win won't be the ones that read about AI — they'll be the ones already running it. Our job is to make sure Guyanese businesses are in that group.
An Open Invitation to Guyana's Government and Public Sector
The Wales data centre is a sovereign AI play — Guyanese infrastructure, Guyanese data, Guyanese law. That vision needs Guyanese software partners, and Computing Core is openly raising its hand:
- We already automate government-facing paperwork in production. Our AI Data Entry Clerk processes Government of Guyana Spectacles Voucher Programme documents daily — extracting patient data from photographed vouchers, filling Ministry of Health-aligned reporting sheets and generating claim documents in the Ministry's exact templates. Not a pilot, not a proposal: running now.
- We are 100% Guyanese-owned. Every developer who would write code for a ministry, agency or regional administration lives and works in Guyana. The expertise, the accountability and the economic benefit stay in-country — exactly the outcome the Local Content philosophy and the Cerebras MOU are designed to produce.
- We move at pilot speed. A focused AI project — digitising one paper process, one registry, one claims workflow — can be proven on real documents in weeks, not years. That is how e-government adoption actually starts.
To any ministry, agency or public body exploring AI for records digitisation, form processing or citizen services: we would be glad to demonstrate what we've already built, on your own documents.
Our Message to Guyanese Business Owners
You don't need to wait for the data centre to open to benefit from AI. The practical wins — eliminating manual data entry, automating government paperwork, generating marketing content, catching losses in your sales data — are available today, built and supported right here in Guyana.
The Government has made its declaration of ambition. This is ours: Computing Core will keep building AI that works for the businesses — and the institutions — of Guyana.
Talk to us about AI development:
- 📞 Call: (592) 600-1096
- 💬 WhatsApp: message us directly
- 📧 Email: service@computingcore.net
- 🌐 Contact form: computingcore.net/contact
A demo takes 10 minutes, costs nothing, and runs on your own paperwork.
Written by Carlos De Cunha
Founder of Computing Core, Guyana's local POS software specialists since 2014. Full profile →