Mantsala is, indeed, in the middle of nowhere.
This includes NebiusAIdata centre, taking shape in the small community an hours drive or so north of Helsinki.
Amsterdam-based Nebius is labelling itself an AI cloud infrastructure company.
Its proprietary platform, it says, has been optimised for AI training and inference without performance bottlenecks.
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The would-beEuropeanAI infrastructure force has begun amassing a tremendous amount of compute.
Today, it announced that it will triple the Mantsala capacity to up to 60,000 Nvidia GPUs.
Nebius is also one of the launch partners for Nvidias upcoming Blackwell platform.
The Blackwell GB200 will enter mass production in December.
Nebius has built custom racks for its Nvidia hardware.
We are doing it [building the data centre] from the ground up, Korolenko says.
What will happen to the world in this case?
Korolenko muses, sounding rather stoic.
With 35.26 GFlops per watt-second, it has also made it to number 24 on theGreen Top500 list.
This includes a recent addition in Paris, a colocation deployment based at Equinixs PA10 campus.
At its Mantsala data centre, Nebius provides heating for about 2,000 homes.
Nebius data centre currently only utilises air to cool its servers.
This will change with the addition of the later GPU models.
In fact, with the expansion, Nebius will export more heat than the village of Mantsala requires.
This is currently fueling the rollout of what could end up being a global force in AI infrastructure.
As a result of the legacy from Yandex, Nebius Group is listed on NASDAQ.
The group also encompasses data business Toloka, upskilling edtech platform TripleTen, and autonomous driving technology unit Avride.
However, its shares are not currently trading.
Yandex founder Arkady Volozh is Nebius CEO, who haspublicly criticised Russias war in Ukraine.
The company does not allow its employees to work from inside Russia should they go back and visit.
It has also had to go through rigorous vetting from EU authorities to receive approval for the divestment deal.
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