Artificial intelligence (AI) cloud platform, Nscale, has announced the acquisition of Kontena, a provider of high-density modular data centres and AI data centre solutions.
This acquisition represents an advancement in Nscale’s mission to improve the infrastructure backbone for the burgeoning generative AI market. By integrating Kontena’s innovative solutions, Nscale aims to offer cost-effective, high-performance infrastructure that will take leverage AI’s potential.
“Joining forces with Nscale provides us with an incredible opportunity to accelerate the development and deployment of cutting-edge Generative AI Data Centre solutions,” said Jef Laurijssen, CEO at Kontena.
Kontena added the companies’ combined expertise will enable Kontena to deliver value to their users in the AI and HPC markets.The merger will utilise Kontena’s KONNECT ecosystem alongside Nscale’s infrastructure capabilities to deliver advanced high-performance solutions. Kontena’s flagship product, the EDGE data room, is a modular Generative AI data centre solution designed to address the complex demands of evolving AI technology.
The EDGE data room is among the world’s first modular solutions to deploy AI infrastructure both on-premises and in remote locations, achieving faster and more cost-effective results than traditional Tier 3 data centres.
Nscale Aims to Boost Sustainability
Nscale said its commitment to sustainability is further reinforced by this acquisition. Kontena’s modular AI data centre solutions will enable Nscale to provide quicker and more affordable deployments at its 100% renewable data centre sites in Norway and the US.
CEO of Nscale, Joshua Payne, said the acquisition of Kontena allows Nscale to design, build, and deploy bespoke GPU clusters at scale for global Generative AI users more quickly and more cost-effectively than the competition.
Building Kontena into the Nscale value chain will allow us to deliver bespoke GPU superclusters and data centre builds for our large supercluster and hyperscale users across Nscale’s 500MW of greenfield data centre capacity.
“This modular system can be deployed in Nscale’s data centres, on-premise, or at the edge to deliver unrivalled speed, performance, and efficiency on GenAI workloads. This is an important step towards our goal of vertical integration,” added Payne.
The acquisition follows Nscale’s recent strategic partnership with Open Innovation AI, aiming to deploy 30,000 GPUs over the next three years.