Nscale Acquires Kontena to Enhance HPC and AI Infrastructure Capabilities
Nscale, a fully vertically integrated AI cloud platform, today announced the acquisition of Kontena, a leader in high-density modular data centres and AI Data Centre solutions.
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This acquisition marks a significant step forward in Nscale's mission to provide the infrastructure backbone to the growing generative AI market through cost-effective, high-performance solutions that unlock AI's full potential.
Jef Laurijssen, CEO of Kontena, commented: “Joining forces with Nscale provides us with an incredible opportunity to accelerate the development and deployment of cutting-edge Generative AI Data Centre solutions. Our combined expertise will enable us to deliver unparalleled value to our customers in the AI and HPC markets.”
Capitalising on Kontena’s innovative KONNECT ecosystem combined with Nscale’s extensive infrastructure capabilities, the two companies will deliver high-performance solutions. Kontena's flagship product, the EDGE data room, is a fully modular Generative AI Data Centre solution designed to meet the complex demands of advancing AI development. The EDGE data room is one of the world’s first modular solution deploying AI infrastructure on-premises and in remote locations, far quicker and at lower cost than traditional Tier 3 Data Centres.
Nscale’s acquisition of Kontena bolsters its commitment to sustainability. Kontena’s modular AI data centre solutions will enable Nscale to deliver faster and more cost-effective deployments for customers at its 100% renewable data centre sites in Norway and the US.
Joshua Payne, CEO of Nscale, commented: “The acquisition of Kontena allows Nscale to design, build, and deploy bespoke GPU clusters at scale for global Generative AI customers 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 customers 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.”
This acquisition underscores Nscale’s dedication to driving innovation and delivering exceptional value to its customers. It follows Nscale’s recent announcement of a strategic partnership with Open Innovation AI, a leading GPU orchestration platform in MENA, targeting the deployment of 30,000 GPUs over the next 3 years, further solidifying its commitment to AI infrastructure and optimised workloads for global markets.
About Nscale
Nscale is a fully vertically integrated AI GPU Cloud provider delivering compute to the generative AI market at scale. Leveraging its 60MW renewable energy-powered data centre in Norway and a pipeline of over 500MW of greenfield data centres in the US. Nscale enables customers to run efficient and scalable AI training, fine-tuning, and compute-intensive workloads, supporting advanced AI research and development. Nscale provides the AI infrastructure backbone to the generative AI market.
About Kontena
Founded in 2018, Kontena specialises in high-density data centres and HPC solutions, combining innovation with practicality. The company recently collaborated with ElioVP and Bluesio to develop better and more innovative AI and HPC solutions.
For more information about Nscale’s AI & HPC solutions and the Kontena acquisition, visit nscale.com.
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