What it is
Records That Cannot Go Down, and Now AI
Healthcare workloads include electronic health records, medical imaging, lab and genomics data, billing and, now, AI that drafts notes and reads slides. US patient data falls under HIPAA, which sets privacy and security rules for anyone hosting it.
- Records: most large US hospitals run Epic, either in their own data centers or hosted by Epic in Wisconsin.
- AI scribes listen to visits and draft notes: Microsoft's Dragon Copilot is used by more than 100,000 clinicians a day, and Abridge by more than 150 health systems. Each visit becomes an inference job in a cloud data center.
- Imaging and pathology: Mayo Clinic runs an Nvidia DGX SuperPOD on more than 20 million digitized pathology slides and says it cut model development from four weeks to one.
- Drug discovery: Eli Lilly runs 1,016 Blackwell Ultra GPUs on its own Indianapolis site; see Enterprise Data Centers.
Flagship
Epic's Hosting Data Center in Verona, Wisconsin
- Site: Epic hosts hospitals' records at its Verona, Wisconsin campus in a data center it says can ride out tornadoes and run on generators for weeks.
- Backup: Epic bought Mayo Clinic's 62,000 sq ft Rochester, Minnesota data center for $46 million to serve as its disaster-recovery site; Mayo leases part of it back.
- AI load: generative AI actions inside Epic grew from 50 million a month in July 2025 to 2 billion a month in July 2026, and 1.4 million clinicians a month get AI help inside Epic.
- Research data: Epic's Cosmos database covers 320 million patients and 23 billion encounters.
Sites
Healthcare Compute
| System | Where | What it does | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Epic hosting | Verona, WI | Hosted health records for hospitals; Cosmos research data on 320M patients | Operating |
| Epic disaster recovery | Rochester, MN | Former Mayo Clinic data center, 62,000 sq ft, bought for $46M | Operating |
| Mayo Clinic DGX SuperPOD | Rochester, MN | Nvidia DGX B200; pathology AI on 20M+ slides | Operating since July 2025 |
| Eli Lilly LillyPod | Indianapolis, IN | 1,016 Blackwell Ultra GPUs for drug discovery | Operating since February 2026 |
| Microsoft Dragon Copilot | Microsoft Azure | AI scribe and assistant; 100,000+ clinicians a day | Operating |
| Abridge | Cloud | AI scribe at 150+ health systems; $5.3B valuation | Operating |
Record
Dataset Record
- Dataset
- Health record hosting and healthcare AI compute
- Sources
- Epic, Mayo Clinic, Microsoft, Abridge, Eli Lilly, Nvidia, Healthcare IT Today, Becker's Hospital Review, Health Data Management, Post-Bulletin
- Last verified
- October 2026