Nebius Expands in US With First GPU Cluster in Kansas City, Offices in San Francisco, Dallas and New York
November 19 2024 - 7:43AM
Business Wire
- AI infrastructure provider’s first GPU cluster in the US will
service customer workloads from early 2025
- GPU cluster in Kansas City has potential capacity to house up
to about 35 thousand GPUs after expansion
- Nebius’s new customer hubs in San Francisco and Dallas have
been operational since September; third office in New York coming
by year-end
Nebius Group N.V. (“Nebius Group”, “Nebius” or the “Company”;
NASDAQ:NBIS), a leading AI infrastructure company, today announced
the launch of its first GPU cluster in the United States with a
deployment in Kansas City, MO, bringing its AI-native cloud closer
to American customers.
Scheduled to go live in Q1 2025, the Kansas City cluster will
house thousands of state-of-the-art NVIDIA GPUs, primarily H200
Tensor Core GPUs in the initial phase, with the energy-efficient
NVIDIA Blackwell platform expected to arrive in 2025. The
colocation can be expanded from an initial 5 MW up to 40 MW, or
about 35 thousand GPUs, at full potential capacity.
Nebius is actively ramping up its presence in the US as part of
its strategy to become a leading provider of AI infrastructure to
AI builders globally, and is in advanced discussions for a second,
larger-scale GPU cluster in the US, also slated to come online in
2025. The Company has also opened two new customer-facing hubs in
San Francisco and Dallas, with a third office set to open in New
York later this year.
Arkady Volozh, founder and CEO of Nebius, said:
“Our first GPU cluster in the US and new offices represent a
pivotal step in our expansion in the US market. Serving American
customers from American facilities means lower latency and
maximizes the advantages of our AI-native cloud. We will be
building out more GPU clusters across the US to meet exploding
demand for high-quality AI infrastructure from US AI developers and
enterprises.”
Built on top of the latest NVIDIA GPUs with a fleet of H100s
already installed and H200s coming onstream this month, Nebius’s
full-stack AI infrastructure is being purpose-built to meet the
demands of the global AI industry and leans on deep technical
expertise across hardware and software, cloud engineering and
machine learning (“ML”).
Publicly announced in October, the AI-native Nebius cloud is
designed to manage the full ML lifecycle – from data processing and
training through to fine-tuning and inference – all in one place.
The recently launched Nebius AI Studio inference service expands
the Company’s offering to app builders, with access to a range of
state-of-the-art open-source models in a flexible, user-friendly
environment at among the lowest price-per-token on the market.
Nebius has a team of around 400 engineers with decades of
knowledge of building world-class tech infrastructure, as well as
an in-house large language model (“LLM”) R&D team. Listed on
Nasdaq, the Company recently announced investments of more than USD
1 billion in AI infrastructure by mid-2025, enabling Nebius to
deploy tens of thousands of NVIDIA GPUs to bring its highly
differentiated, energy-efficient, AI-native cloud offering to
customers worldwide.
About Nebius
Nebius is a technology company building full-stack
infrastructure to service the explosive growth of the global AI
industry, including large-scale GPU clusters, cloud platforms, and
tools and services for developers. Headquartered in Amsterdam and
listed on Nasdaq, the Company has a global footprint with R&D
hubs across Europe, North America and Israel.
Nebius’s core business is an AI-centric cloud platform built for
intensive AI workloads. With proprietary cloud software
architecture and hardware designed in-house (including servers,
racks and data center design), Nebius gives AI builders the
compute, storage, managed services and tools they need to build,
tune and run their models.
A Preferred cloud service provider in the NVIDIA Partner
Network, Nebius offers high-end infrastructure optimized for AI
training and inference. The Company boasts a team of around 400
skilled engineers, delivering a true hyperscale cloud experience
tailored for AI builders.
To learn more please visit www.nebius.com
Disclaimer
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All statements contained or implied other than statements of
historical facts, including, without limitation, statements
regarding Nebius’s planned GPU cluster expansion, business plans,
market opportunities, capital expenditure requirements, financing
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considered as an indication of future performance. The potential
risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ
from the results predicted or implied by such statements include,
among others, Nebius’s ability to successfully operate and develop
a fundamentally different, early-stage group following the
divestment of a significant portion of our historical operations;
to implement Nebius’s business plans; to conclude property leases
or acquisitions on acceptable terms, to continue to successfully
capture customers; to continue to successfully obtain required
supplies of hardware on acceptable terms; and to obtain any further
debt or equity financing that may be necessary to achieve Nebius’s
objectives. Many of these risks and uncertainties depend on the
actions of third parties and are largely outside of Nebius’s
control. Notwithstanding the completion of the full divestment of
the Company’s Russian businesses, Nebius also continue to be
subject to many of the risks and uncertainties included under the
captions “Risk Factors” and “Operating and Financial Review and
Prospects” in Nebius’s Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year
ended December 31, 2023 and “Risk Factors” in a shareholder
circular filed as Exhibit 99.2 to a Report on Form 6-K filed with
the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on February 8,
2024, which are available on the Nebius investor relations website
at https://group.nebius.com and on the SEC website at www.sec.gov.
All information in this release is as of November 19, 2024, and the
Company undertakes no duty to update this information unless
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exhaustive inquiry into, or review of, all potentially available
relevant information. These statements are inherently uncertain,
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