Gcore will be deploying a GPU cluster with more than 1MW of compute capacity at the facility.
Gcore has signed on as a customer at Finnish telco Telia’s data centre in Helsinki.
The artificial intelligence (AI) GPU-based cloud provider will be deploying a GPU cluster with more than 1MW of compute capacity at the facility.
Gcore selected the Telia facility because of its sustainability and security standards, according to Dmitriy Gusakovskiy, who said, “We were impressed by the high-security standards and the fact that the facility is powered exclusively by renewable energy sources — hydro, wind, and solar — with the excess heat reused for the heating of thousands of apartments in the Helsinki area.”
Gusakovskiy added that with Telia, they were able to get the cluster up and running within one month of signing a contract. The companies are using a flexible pricing model based on kilowatts consumed.
Michael Holm, Global Sector Lead of Data Centres at Telia, noted that the reuse of excess heat means that Finland has a “competitive energy tax rate in the EU.”
Holm added that the “Helsinki data centre provides options for expansion and development for Gcore’s future needs. The modular design of the data centre ensures scalability, agility, and adaptability to meet the most demanding customer needs.”
The Telia Helsinki Data Center was launched in 2018 with 24 MW of capacity. The colocation site spans 34,000 square metres (365,970 sq ft), though in May 2024 Telia revealed that it was adding 4 MW of capacity to the facility, with the build-out expected to be completed in early 2025.
Telia previously told DCD that the site could eventually grow to support up to 100 MW of IT load. In addition to waste heat being transferred to the district heating network and distributed to “thousands” of homes and properties in Helsinki, the site’s UPS systems are connected to Finland’s grid to provide capacity when needed.
Gcore is an Edge AI cloud provider. In July of this year, the company raised $60m in a Series A funding round.
In April 2024, the Luxembourg-based company expanded into South Korea with NHN Cloud, with an initial 320 Nvidia H100 GPUs stacked onto 40 servers. Each server also has 2 terabytes of data storage and 112 CPU cores, with a bandwidth of 3.2 Tbps.
The company launched similar clusters in Luxembourg and Wales in 2023. 2024 has also seen Gcore launch a serverless Edge solution called FastEdge.
