Armada and Johnson Controls start Leviathan production at Dublin factory

Armada and Johnson Controls said on 11 November 2026 that production has begun at Galleon Forge Two, inside a Johnson Controls plant in Dublin, Ireland; it is the first site in Europe where Armada's units are made. Johnson Controls already hosts Galleon Forge One, in Gilbert, Arizona, so Dublin is the second such forge at one of its sites, and the companies say the Dublin line now runs without a break.

The Dublin plant covers 90,000 square feet. The companies say about 700 Johnson Controls staff, among them engineers and technicians, support the work there, with more jobs among European suppliers.

The plant builds Leviathan, which the companies describe as a multi-megawatt modular data centre. Leviathan combines Johnson Controls' thermal technology and factory capacity with Armada's computing hardware and software. Johnson Controls says its thermal range runs from coolant distribution units to chillers and controls for buildings, and takes in cooling meant to use no water while cutting energy use and noise. Austin Domenici, president of Global Data Center Solutions at Johnson Controls, says the aim is to finish more of the difficult integration inside the factory, so that computing capacity starts up sooner and on a more predictable schedule.

To mark the start, the companies completed the first Leviathan built in Dublin; they say every stage, from engineering and integration to testing, was done at the plant. The unit will go to Fossefall in Norway. Fossefall's first order covers five Leviathan units totalling more than 9 MW, starting with this one, and all five are due by Q1 2027.

The companies say each Leviathan is run by the Armada Platform, Armada's software that handles the power, cooling and computing of each unit. Customers own the hardware, and units within the Armada Sovereign SI Grid operate together as a single fleet.

More capacity is planned. The companies expect the Gilbert plant, Galleon Forge One, to begin continuous output in early 2027, on as much as 400,000 square feet and with more than 500 jobs, and they plan to add manufacturing at a Johnson Controls location in Edmonton, Canada. Together they aim for no less than 500 MW of capacity during 2027.

The companies also name an early deployment in Australia, where WinDC intends to install 11 MW of modular capacity at sites with renewable generation, near wind farms, solar farms and batteries. Andrew Sjoquist, WinDC's founder and chief executive, says Leviathan lets the company place computing next to clean power and expand it as workloads grow.