Runware Claims $1B Interest for 48-Hour Modular AI Data Center Pods

Runware says it has lined up $1 billion in committed customer interest for its Sonic inference pods in the month since it opened sales to outside buyers, representing over 20 megawatts of modular AI data center capacity, TechCrunch reports. CEO Flaviu Radulescu told the outlet the Romania-based company aims to scale production to 30 megawatts of capacity per day by 2028.

A pod takes three weeks to build today and should take one day once production ramps, per the article. Runware is running one factory and expects a second online in early 2027. Once a pod ships, Radulescu says, Runware aims to bring it online within 48 hours. The units use closed-loop liquid cooling with air-cooled radiators and are described as "completely silent up to 86 degrees Fahrenheit."

The pitch is as much about supply-chain tempo as about silicon. "Our pod delivery times are also shorter than current GPU lead times, giving us time to adapt the infrastructure to the hardware being ordered," Radulescu told TechCrunch. Customers can rent compute from Runware or ship in their own GPUs and pay a monthly pod and operations fee, with power and internet billed separately. The company says it has 397 megawatts of sites in its pipeline, with headroom to 1.2 gigawatts.

The numbers come from Runware alone, and committed interest is not signed revenue. The company has raised more than $60 million to date, including a $50 million Series A in December 2025, and plans a Series B. The claim lands in a week when AI infrastructure spending stories have dominated our tracker, so anyone offering a shorter path to live GPUs has a willing audience. "Modular systems are the future and will soon become the standard for large AI deployment," Radulescu said.