How El Salvador Rerouted Elon Musk's AI Supercomputer

In this Build In El Salvador Interview, Michael Ruiz sits down with Garrett Johnson, co-founder of HydraHost, at the SovAI Summit inside El Salvador's National Palace. Garrett reveals how HydraHost brought NVIDIA B300 supercomputing chips to El Salvador — the first sovereign deployment of its kind in the Western Hemisphere outside the U.S. — and how those servers were originally destined for Elon Musk before being rerouted. HydraHost is building a decentralized alternative to AWS and Google, connecting GPU supply with demand globally. El Salvador is now exporting compute alongside coffee, generating new revenue while maintaining full control of its own data and infrastructure. With U.S. data center restrictions growing and demand outpacing supply, Garrett sees the Western Hemisphere — and El Salvador in particular — perfectly positioned to fill the gap. Follow BIES on twitter: https://x.com/BuildInES Subscribe to our Email list: https://buildinelsalvador.substack.com/ 00:00 Interview Teaser 01:24 Welcome to SovAI Summit 01:56 El Salvador Leads on Compute 03:10 Why HydraHost Partnered 04:54 What Sovereign Compute Means 06:20 HydraHost Origin Story 08:32 AI Factory Marketplace Model 09:11 HydraHost vs AWS 10:32 Inside the B300 GPUs 12:23 Future of Data Centers 13:55 Power and Energy Strategy 15:41 HydraHost Plans in El Salvador 18:10 Travel Tips and Wrap Up