Joshua Payne, Founder and CEO of Nscale (Photo: Business Wire)
LONDON, July 21, 2024–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Nscale, a fully vertically integrated AI cloud platform, today announced the acquisition of Kontena, a leader in high-density modular data center and AI data center solutions.
This acquisition marks a major step forward for Nscale’s mission to provide the infrastructure backbone to the growing generative AI market through cost-effective, high-performance solutions that unlock the full potential of AI.
Jef Laurijssen, CEO of Kontena, commented: “Working with Nscale gives us an exciting opportunity to accelerate the development and deployment of cutting-edge Generative AI data center solutions. The combined expertise of our two companies will enable us to deliver unparalleled value to our customers in the AI and HPC markets.”
By combining Kontena’s innovative KONNECT ecosystem with Nscale’s extensive infrastructure capabilities, the two companies will deliver high-performance solutions. Kontena’s flagship product, EDGE Data Room, is a fully modular, generative AI data center solution designed to meet the complex demands of advancing AI development. EDGE Data Room is one of the world’s first modular solutions to deploy AI infrastructure on-premise and in remote locations much faster and at a lower cost than traditional Tier 3 data centers.
Nscale’s acquisition of Kontena strengthens its commitment to sustainability: Kontena’s modular AI datacenter solutions will enable Nscale to offer customers faster, more cost-effective deployments at its 100% renewable datacenter sites in Norway and the United States.
Joshua Payne, CEO of Nscale, commented, “The acquisition of Kontena will enable Nscale to design, build and deploy large-scale, custom GPU clusters for Generative AI customers around the world more quickly and cost-effectively than our competitors. Bringing Kontena into Nscale’s value chain will enable us to offer custom GPU supercluster and datacenter builds for large supercluster and hyperscale customers across Nscale’s 500MW of greenfield datacenter capacity. The modular system can be deployed in Nscale datacenters, on-premise or at the edge, delivering unmatched speed, performance and efficiency for GenAI workloads. This is an important step towards our goal of vertical integration.”
The acquisition underscores Nscale’s commitment to driving innovation and delivering exceptional value to its customers. It follows Nscale’s recently announced strategic partnership with Open Innovation AI, the leading GPU orchestration platform in the MENA region, with a goal of deploying 30,000 GPUs over the next three years, further strengthening its commitment to AI infrastructure and optimized workloads for global markets.
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About Nscale
Nscale is a fully vertically integrated AI GPU cloud provider delivering large-scale computing to the generative AI market. It leverages 60 MW of renewable energy powered data centers in Norway and a pipeline of over 500 MW of greenfield data centers in the US. Nscale enables customers to run efficient and scalable AI training, fine-tuning and compute-intensive workloads to support advanced AI research and development. Nscale provides the AI infrastructure backbone for the generative AI market.
About Kontena
Founded in 2018, Kontena specializes in high-density data center and HPC solutions that combine innovation and practicality. The company recently partnered with ElioVP and Bluesio to develop better and more innovative AI and HPC solutions.
For more information about Nscale’s AI and HPC solutions and the Kontena acquisition, visit nscale.com.
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