Only 25% of Yotta’s GPUs used by Indian firms: CEO Sunil Gupta
H100 graphic processing units (GPUs) procured by Hiranandani Group’s Mumbai-headquartered Yotta Data Services from American chip maker Nvidia are used by companies abroad and only the rest are used by Indian companies, said Yotta Data Services chief executive Sunil Gupta.
He told ET that this was because of a more advanced artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystem in the West that leads to heightened demand for GPUs. By November the company plans to deploy an additional 8,000 GPUs, he said.
“Last November we placed an order for 16,384 H100 GPUs. From a medium to long-term scale, 16,384 may not be enough for India. We deployed the first phase of 4,096 chips. By March-April, we had got all the chips. Around seven to eight weeks back, we commissioned all of them,” Gupta told ET in an interview on August 13.
About 4,096 chips have been implemented, commissioned and delivered to customers in India and abroad, he said.
“Broadly 75% of the GPU consumption (around 3,000 GPUs) is from foreign operators, simply because the AI ecosystem there is very big and they’re making large language models. The Indian ecosystem is still being built,” Gupta said. “We weren’t expecting this much demand. We were expecting to deploy the rest of the 12,000 GPUs in phases. But now we are advancing the delivery timelines. The next 8,000 GPUs are being implemented and delivered to customers by November in the next three months.”
He further said, “Since we have invested billions of dollars into this, in our first two phases, we will serve global
