Nscale, a London, UK-based provider of a vertically integrated AI cloud platform, acquired Kontena, an Antwerp, Belgium-based company which specializes in high-density modular data centres and AI data centre solutions.
The amount of the deal was not disclosed
With the acquisition, Kontena’s modular AI data centre solutions will enable Nscale to deliver faster and more cost-effective deployments for customers at its renewable data centre sites in Norway and the US.
Led by Jef Laurijssen, CEO, Kontena specialises in high-density data centres and HPC solutions, combining innovation with practicality. Its flagship product, the EDGE data room, is a fully modular Generative AI Data Centre solution designed to meet the complex demands of advancing AI development. The company recently collaborated with ElioVP and Bluesio to develop better and more innovative AI and HPC solutions.
Led by Joshua Payne, Founder and CEO, Nscale is a vertically integrated AI GPU Cloud provider delivering compute to the generative AI market at scale. Leveraging its 60MW renewable energy-powered data centre in Norway and a pipeline of over 500MW of greenfield data centres in the US. It enables customers to run efficient and scalable AI training, fine-tuning, and compute-intensive workloads, supporting advanced AI research and development.
This acquisition follows Nscale’s recent announcement of a strategic partnership with Open Innovation AI, a GPU orchestration platform in MENA, targeting the deployment of 30,000 GPUs over the next 3 years, further solidifying its commitment to AI infrastructure and optimised workloads for global markets.
Commenting on the news, Joshua Payne said: “The acquisition of Kontena allows Nscale to design, build, and deploy bespoke GPU clusters at scale for global Generative AI customers more quickly and more cost-effectively than the competition. Building Kontena into the Nscale value chain will allow us to deliver bespoke GPU superclusters and data centre builds for our large supercluster and hyperscale customers across Nscale’s 500MW of greenfield data centre capacity. This modular system can be deployed in Nscale’s data centres, on-premise, or at the edge to deliver unrivalled speed, performance, and efficiency on GenAI workloads. This is an important step towards our goal of vertical integration.”
FinSMEs
22/07/2024