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(Bloomberg) – Cloud computing provider Vultr is building a 50 MW cluster of Advanced Micro Devices artificial intelligence processors at a data center in Ohio, a move aimed at offering AI infrastructure at a lower cost.
The AMD-backed company announced plans on Tuesday to spend more than $1 billion on the facility, which will allow a future customer to train or run AI models. It’s slated to come online in the first quarter of 2026.
Vultr is part of a cadre of cloud providers trying to benefit from booming AI demand on a more modest budget. Its new chip cluster will operate at a much smaller scale than the massive facilities run by Microsoft Corp., Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google – but will offer computing power at lower rates, the company said.
Vultr’s cloud services are “typically half the price” of what the biggest data center operators charge, CEO J.J. Kardwell said in an interview. Its 50-megawatt, 24,000-chip facility compares with giant AI data centers measured in gigawatts of power. One gigawatt is roughly the amount of energy generated by a nuclear power plant.
Vultr, based in West Palm Beach, Florida, buys chips and computer gear and then runs the systems from
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