Nvidia, Equinix team up to offer AI supercomputers to businesses

SAN FRANCISCO: Data center operator Equinix and Nvidia said on Wednesday they had partnered up to offer the chip firm’s supercomputing systems to corporate clients.

The service will make it easier for companies to own artificial intelligence computing systems and have better control over their data, instead of renting out Nvidia’s market-leading chips from cloud computing providers like Amazon.com or Microsoft.

Many large businesses have shown interest in owning their AI computing system for privacy and security reasons, but Nvidia systems are different from conventional data center servers, often using different networking cabling and sometimes employing liquid cooling.