Indian data center firm Yotta to build $2 billion AI hub with Nvidia's Blackwell chips


Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang present NVIDIA Blackwell platform at an event ahead of the COMPUTEX forum, in Taipei, Taiwan June 2, 2024. REUTERS/Ann Wang

Feb 18 (Reuters) - Indian ⁠data centre company Yotta Data Services said ⁠on Wednesday it will build one of ‌Asia's largest AI computing hubs using Nvidia's latest Blackwell Ultra chips, in a project costing more than $2 billion.

The project includes ​a four-year engagement worth over $1 billion ⁠under which Nvidia ⁠will establish one of Asia-Pacific's largest DGX Cloud clusters ⁠within ‌Yotta's infrastructure, the company said.

The move comes as global cloud providers including Microsoft ⁠and Amazon expand AI data centre capacity ​in India, ‌amid rising demand for generative AI services and ⁠a push ​to localise advanced computing infrastructure.

The investment also comes amid US export controls that have reshaped global supply ⁠chains for advanced AI chips, ​prompting companies to deepen partnerships in markets such as India.

The supercluster, expected to go live by August, ⁠will be deployed at Yotta's data centre campus near capital New Delhi, with additional capacity from its facility in India's financial capital Mumbai.

Yotta, part of ​Indian billionaire Niranjan Hiranandani's real ⁠estate group, is a partner firm for Nvidia ​in India and runs three ‌data center campuses in Mumbai, ​Gujarat and near New Delhi.

(Reporting by Surbhi Misra in Bengaluru; Editing by Harikrishnan Nair)

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