ESIF High-Performance Computing Data Center (Kestrel supercomputer)

Facility record

Lifecycle

OperationalSource-reported lifecycle

Location precision

approximate

Address as listed

Not published

Coordinates

39.74024, -105.16718

Serving utility, source-reported

Not established

Operational capacity, source-reported

Not published

Planned capacity, source-reported

Not published

Source record updated

2026-09-30

Source-reported capacity; not metered consumption. Review underlying documents and notes. Planned capacity may include future phases and is not added to operational capacity here. The source may use facility, grid-feed or IT capacity definitions; consult the linked documents.

Coordinate precision is a source label, not an independent parcel survey. A marker does not confirm utility territory or establish an effect on residential bills.

Reported lifecycle history

No dated operational history is established in this record. Publication, discovery and source-update dates are not opening dates.

Source notes

This is the HPC data center inside the Energy Systems Integration Facility (ESIF) on the lab campus in Golden. It houses the Kestrel supercomputer (HPE, CPU plus GPU nodes), which arrived in March 2023. The lab needed '2.5-megawatt upgrades to support Kestrel'. No total facility MW figure appears in the cited sources, so no capacity is recorded. Coordinates are a Census geocode of the lab's 15013 Denver West Pkwy campus address, not the ESIF building itself.

Sources and provenance

• Department of Energy's Newest Energy Research-Dedicated Supercomputer Arrives at NREL · source retrieved 2026-09-30
• Computational Science Facilities · source retrieved 2026-09-30
• NREL's New High-Performance Computer Has a Tremendous Supporting Cast · source retrieved 2026-09-30

Power Wars capture: 2026-11-02. Compute Atlas, CC BY 4.0. Entries are not independently verified by Power Wars unless stated.