Akash Systems signs $27 million deal with NxtGen for diamond cooled AI servers
Akash Systems, backed by global investors Peter Thiel and Vinod Khosla on Wednesday said it signed a $27 million (approximately Rs 225 crore) contract with India’s largest sovereign cloud provider NxtGen Datacenter and Cloud Technologies, to deliver its ‘diamond cooled’ AI servers across India.
“The collaboration will position NxtGen as the world’s most energy-efficient AI compute solutions provider by using Nvidia and AMD GPUs (graphic processing units) that are ‘diamond cooled’ by Akash. The new servers will support NxtGen’s mission to provide energy-efficient and cost-effective AI compute services to enterprises of all sizes across India,” both the companies said in a joint statement.
“We are collaborating with Akash to set an industry benchmark for sustainable AI. Through a combination of Akash’s diamond cooling, waterless liquid cooling, and advanced GPUs from NVIDIA and AMD, we are able to double the performance per watt,” said AS Rajgopal, CEO & MD of NxtGen.
This allows us to reduce the cost to our customers and bring down the cost of AI compute services by more than 50% from prevailing market rates and enable us to deliver very high-value AI use-cases to our customers, he added.
Bengaluru-headquartered NxtGen operates multiple data centers and offers a range of services, including AI compute, disaster recovery, and managed security. The company is currently expanding its infrastructure with the growing demand for data center services.
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