A data center in southern Italy will host one of the largest deployments of Nvidia’s newest servers globally by the middle of next year, according to a new tab opened by Italian firm iGenius and Nvidia (NVDA.O) on Thursday.
About 80 of Nvidia’s most potent servers, known as GB200 NVL72 workstations, with 72 of the tech giant’s “Blackwell” chips in each, will be housed in a data center that iGenius is constructing.
The project’s price tag was not provided by the startup. However, iGenius, one of the few AI businesses in Europe with a valuation of over $1 billion, has secured 650 million euros this year and is taking on further funding for the AI computing, Chief Executive Uljan Sharka told Reuters.
In contrast to competitors like OpenAI, iGenius creates open source AI software models for chatbots that it sells to banks, healthcare organizations, and other sectors with stringent data security regulations. These businesses then operate the models on their own infrastructure.
iGenius has also utilized Nvidia’s whole suite of software tools for Colosseum, including Nvidia NIMS, which was unveiled this year and serves as a sort of app store for AI models.
This implies that any company that employs Nvidia chips may readily use the AI models that iGenius intends to create with Colosseum, some of which might have up to 1 trillion parameters based on one measure of AI sophistication.
Charlie Boyle, vice president and general manager of DGX systems at Nvidia, told Reuters that Colosseum will be one of the biggest installations of the company’s flagship servers worldwide.
According to him, iGenius is collaborating closely with many Nvidia hardware and software teams to get the system up.
