Palantir debuts 'war' data center in a container, full of Nvidia's B300 AI accelerators and open-weight models
THE SO WHAT
Containerized, B300-powered AI stacks that run without continuous cloud connectivity mark a shift toward deployable, sovereign inference for high-stakes environments. If your product assumes stable cloud links, start designing degraded and offline modes now.
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