The Massachusetts AI Hub announced a $31 million state grant in May 2025 to build the Artificial Intelligence Compute Resources (AICR) cluster at the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) in Holyoke, providing high-performance GPU infrastructure for AI workloads to universities, startups, businesses, and researchers across Massachusetts. Hardware procurement was underway as of late 2025, with Cambridge Computer selected as the builder in December 2025.

The AICR cluster, built in partnership with Cambridge Computer, Dell Technologies, NVIDIA, and VAST Data, will comprise hundreds of NVIDIA B200 and RTX GPUs fine-tuned for AI workloads. It represents the first phase of a planned $120 million public-private investment, with MGHPCC's six member universities—Boston University, Harvard, MIT, Northeastern, UMass, and Yale—matching the state's initial investment. The resource is intended to democratize access to high-performance computing for institutions that could not otherwise afford large-scale infrastructure, and to serve as the backbone of the MA AI Hub.