Vermont Advanced Computing Center (VACC), University of Vermont
University of Vermont · South Burlington, VT · United States
Facility record
- Lifecycle
- OperationalSource-reported lifecycle
- Location precision
- approximate
- Address as listed
- 530 Community Drive
- Coordinates
- 44.448637, -73.146839
- Serving utility, source-reported
- Not established
- Operational capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Planned capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-29
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
- Operational
VACC established in 2003 with NASA and NSF support. The IceCore AI cluster's first phase came online in fall 2025.
Underlying source
Source notes
UVM's on-campus research HPC data center. The university built it about 20 years ago with redundant power, cooling and networking. UVM places it 'in the sprawling South Burlington technology park'. Clusters: BlueMoon (88 CPU nodes, 12,584 cores), DataMountain, a Secure Cluster, and IceCore, an AI-focused GPU cluster with 104 NVIDIA H200 and 48 RTX Pro 6000 GPUs, funded by a $2.1M NSF grant in 2025. The exact building is not published. The coordinates are PeeringDB's point for 530 Community Drive in the same technology park, a representative point only. No MW capacity is published.
UVM says the VACC runs on Vermont's grid, which it calls among the least carbon-intensive in the country. No MW or kW capacity is published.
Sources and provenance
- IceCore advances a new era of discovery at UVM (Dec 10, 2025) · source retrieved 2026-10-11
- VACC cluster specifications · source retrieved 2026-10-11
- VACC: Artificial intelligence workloads (cooling and power) · source retrieved 2026-10-28
- VACC mission and history · source retrieved 2026-10-28
- PeeringDB: Lightboard Vermont, 530 Community Drive (lists VACC as a connected facility) · source retrieved 2026-10-11
- PeeringDB facility record 14600 (Lightboard Vermont) listing 'Vermont Advanced Computing Center (UVM VACC), 530 Community Dr., S. Burlington, VT' · source retrieved 2026-10-28
- PeeringDB – Lightboard ★ Vermont record listing 'Vermont Advanced Computing Center (UVM VACC), 530 Community Dr., S. Burlington, VT.' · source retrieved 2026-10-29
Power Wars capture: 2026-11-02. Compute Atlas, CC BY 4.0. Entries are not independently verified by Power Wars unless stated.