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1 / 3Runware wants to build AI data centers on an assembly line in Romania×

The pod

Runware, which has raised more than $60 million, makes a factory-built inference pod that it says goes live within 48 hours of delivery, with closed-loop liquid cooling that needs power and internet but no water.

The line

Build time per pod has fallen from about three weeks to about a day, the company says, and it is aiming at 30 MW of output a day by 2028.

The claims

It claims $1 billion of committed interest covering more than 20 MW and a 397 MW site pipeline, and plans a Series B. These are the company's own numbers and mostly plans.

Sources and the full story

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Runware wants to build AI data centers on an assembly line in Romania

Runware, which has raised more than $60 million, makes a factory-built inference pod that it says goes live within 48 hours of delivery, with closed-loop liquid cooling that needs power and internet but no water. Build time per pod has fallen from about three weeks to about a day, the company says, and it is aiming at 30 MW of output a day by 2028. It claims $1 billion of committed interest covering more than 20 MW and a 397 MW site pipeline, and plans a Series B. These are the company's own numbers and mostly plans. SourcesB

Sources

• BCan AI data centers be mass-produced like cars? (TechCrunch)techcrunch.com

This story ran in the Afternoon Brief of October 30th 2026.