A new AI cloud provider has launched, dubbed Perimeter Compute.. As reported by Latitude Media, the company plans to utilize excess energy capacity at commercial office buildings in major US cities, deploying GPU compute at the locations.. – Perimeter Compute via LinkedIn. The company is a portfolio business of Montauk Capital and is led by former Lambda executive David Hall..
Hall told Latitude that the company plans to install the GPUs in the basements and mechanical rooms of the office buildings, which have between 500kW and 20MW of spare capacity, noting that 500kW can itself power 240 of the latest Nvidia GPUs.. In a LinkedIn post from August 3, Hall said: “Today, we’re launching Perimeter Compute to the world to deliver the shortest path to data center-capable GPUs at the Edge.
With AI inference demand skyrocketing and large-footprint data centers facing regulatory and supply chain hurdles, we provide a faster alternative: we deploy within existing, powered facilities to get companies inference compute in weeks, not years.. “Plenty of players are chasing distributed and Edge compute. We are doing something different: delivering a technical and financial solution from day one that fits within existing and underutilized space without the need for costly capex.
We partner directly with real estate owners and operators, creating immediate value for them and our customers. And, our inference hubs are equipped to provide enough capacity to run even the largest frontier-class models at the Edge.”. Edge AI deployments are seeing a lot of interest of late, with companies rolling out the Nvidia AI Grid reference design to create a distributed Edge network of GPU compute.
Many of these companies are telecommunications providers, leveraging their existing distributed infrastructure network. Akamai has also adopted the solution, utilizing its 4,400 PoPs (Points of Presence).. More in Edge & IoT.
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