Vultr Launches 20 MW AI Supercompute Cluster in Chennai
Chennai: Cloud infrastructure provider Vultr has launched a 20-megawatt AI supercompute cluster in Chennai, equipped with more than 10,000 AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs and AMD EPYC CPUs. The facility is the company’s second-largest supercompute cluster globally, after its largest facility in the United States.
The infrastructure is designed to support large-scale artificial intelligence training and inference workloads. Vultr, which began operations in India in 2022, currently has data centre regions in New Delhi NCR, Bengaluru and Mumbai. Its GPU infrastructure in India has expanded from the MI300X and MI325X to the latest MI355X systems.
At the launch, Vultr India signed a Memorandum of Understanding with StartupTN, the Tamil Nadu Startup and Innovation Mission, to provide cloud computing credits and preferential pricing to eligible startups in the state.
Under the initiative, early-stage startups will receive US$2,500 in Vultr credits and a 20% discount. Eligible startups beyond the early-stage funding threshold will receive US$45,000 in credits along with the same discount. The initiative is aimed at reducing computing costs for startups developing products, particularly in AI and deep technology.
Tamil Nadu Minister for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises P. Mathan Raja said access to advanced computing infrastructure would help startups and MSMEs across the state, including businesses in smaller cities, in areas such as product design, software testing and inventory management.
Additional Chief Secretary to the Government of Tamil Nadu, IT and Digital Services Department, Dr. Atul Anand said the state had around 16,000 startups and highlighted the importance of affordable computing resources in supporting AI development. He also assured the company of the state government’s support.
StartupTN Chairman Singai G. Ramachandran highlighted Chennai’s deep-tech ecosystem, which comprises approximately 567 startups with an estimated valuation of ₹75,000 crore. He said access to advanced computing infrastructure would support the development of AI and software capabilities alongside Tamil Nadu’s manufacturing and electronics sectors.
Vultr Chief Marketing Officer Kevin Cochrane said India was increasingly moving from consuming AI technologies to developing AI applications for global markets. He highlighted the company’s decision to bring computing infrastructure closer to India’s developer and business communities.
Vultr said it would continue expanding its computing infrastructure in India with successive generations of GPU and CPU technology.
