Digital Realty, a US-based global provider of Cloud and carrier-neutral data center, colocation, and interconnection solutions, has revealed that it has been selected to host one of the world’s most powerful Artificial Intelligence (AI) supercomputers at an AI-ready data center in Copenhagen, Denmark.
According to a press release, this collaboration is spearheaded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation and the Export and Investment Fund of Denmark (EIFO). It will grant researchers from Denmark’s public and private sectors access to a cutting-edge NVIDIA-powered AI supercomputer, in addition to NVIDIA software platforms, training, and expertise.
Chris Sharp, Chief Technology Officer at Digital Realty, said, “Our commitment to delivering state-of-the-art, AI-ready infrastructure is not just about accelerating AI adoption – it’s about pioneering the next wave of innovation.”
Digital Realty ups its AI game
Digital Realty has been busy building some AI muscle lately. Last year, it introduced its high-density colocation solution on PlatformDIGITAL®, the company’s global data center platform, aimed at breaking down barriers and facilitating AI adoption by enterprises worldwide. Moreover, Digital Realty’s KIX13 data center in Osaka, Japan, was Digital Realty’s first data center globally to become certified for NVIDIA DGX H100, as part of the NVIDIA DGX-Ready Data Center program.
In an official statement, Digital Realty shed light on the cutting-edge AI tech that will be used in this Copenhagen supercomputer project, saying, “The state-of-the-art NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD supercomputer is equipped with 191 NVIDIA DGX H100 systems integrating over 1,500 NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs and interconnected using the NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking platform. The DGX SuperPOD also includes NVIDIA AI Enterprise software for pretrained models, optimized frameworks, and accelerated data science software libraries.” It further said, “Digital Realty’s advanced, AI-ready infrastructure will provide the foundation for this powerful system, enabling the National Center for AI Innovation – formed through the collaboration – in Denmark to accelerate research and innovation in various fields, including healthcare, life sciences, and climate research.”
Walking the talk on Sustainability
The data center where the supercomputer will be housed has been powered by 100 percent renewable energy since 2020. Digital Realty has more than one gigawatt of renewable energy under contract globally and is a signatory to the EU Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact, committing to carbon neutrality for its European data centers by 2030.
“We are delighted to be working with Digital Realty,” said Mads Krogsgaard Thomsen, Chief Executive Officer of the Novo Nordisk Foundation, adding, “With their superb track record of operational excellence and tangible commitment to sustainability, they are the ideal partner to host the supercomputer and help take this exciting initiative forward.”