Cloud provider Vultr expands AI training and inference capacity in Singapore via partnership with Singtel for local fiber backbone.
Vultr, the world's largest privately-held cloud computing platform, announced a strategic partnership with Singtel to expand its capacity of NVIDIA GPUs in Singapore and across Southeast Asia. The partnership will support the development of AI factories for model training and inference, with Vultr's cloud GPU platform integrating with Singtel's Paragon platform to leverage Singtel's NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPU capacity in Singapore for Vultr's customer workloads. Vultr users will be able to deploy large-scale clusters of NVIDIA H100 GPUs in Vultr's Singapore region, powered by Singtel, beginning in Q3 2024.
Vultr currently operates 32 cloud data center locations globally, including nine across the Asia-Pacific region. As a pioneer among independent cloud providers, Vultr has been provisioning NVIDIA accelerated infrastructure for AI training and inference workloads across Singapore, India, Australia, Japan, and South Korea. The company was founded by David Aninowsky and has been completely bootstrapped, becoming the world's largest privately-held cloud computing company without raising equity financing. Vultr has served over 1.5 million customers across 185 countries with flexible, scalable cloud computing solutions.
Singtel, based in Singapore, is Asia's leading communications technology group, with a presence in Asia, Australia, and Africa, reaching over 760 million mobile customers in 21 countries. The company is accelerating its efforts by building a network of sustainable, hyper-connected, AI-ready Nxera data centers in Singapore, Indonesia, and Thailand with power density and liquid-cooling capabilities. These data centers are purpose-built to handle the largest AI workloads using advanced NVIDIA GPUs with high efficiency and low power usage effectiveness. Singtel's infrastructure and technology services for businesses span 21 countries, with more than 428 direct points of presence in 362 cities.
J.J. Kardwell, CEO of Vultr's parent company, Constant, stated: "Vultr's unique footprint of 32 global locations makes us the partner of choice for enterprises and AI innovators with global AI infrastructure needs. Singtel is delivering data centers built to support the power and cooling requirements of the GPUs of the future. Our partnership with Singtel will provide the region with unprecedented access to NVIDIA's most advanced GPUs in some of the most efficient data centers in the world." Bill Chang, CEO of Singtel's Digital InfraCo unit and Nxera regional data center business, added: "This partnership will help foster productivity and innovation at scale without customers having to worry about procuring and managing their own infrastructure of GPUs, data centers, and networks. This collaboration will enable Vultr's customers to leverage the power of Singtel's GPU cloud through the integration between Vultr's cloud GPU platform and Singtel's Paragon platform – all powered by NVIDIA."
Vultr has a long history of partnering with leading telecommunications providers, including a strategic relationship with Airtel in India. The partnership builds on Vultr and Singtel's longstanding relationship to support the development of AI factories in the region. Both companies are committed to making high-performance computing accessible and affordable for enterprises, with both aiming to democratize access to advanced GPU infrastructure without requiring customers to independently procure and manage complex computing infrastructure.