An urban farm on the Paris data center’s roof, warmed by waste heat from the servers
Nebius launches its first availability zone in France
Nebius launches its first availability zone in France
Our Paris availability zone will be one of the first in Europe to offer NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPUs. This is just the beginning as we continue to expand our operational capacity to meet fast-growing demand for high-quality infrastructure and the latest GPUs from AI builders around the world.
September 25, 2024
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Our first Paris data center presence is a colocation deployment based at Equinix’s PA10 campus in the Saint-Denis district of the French capital. Thanks to the sustainability initiatives in place at the site, waste heat generated by Nebius’ servers will be used to warm the urban farm established on the facility’s roof. Equinix, the world’s digital infrastructure company, securely connects organizations across industries. As a leader in data center sustainability, Equinix aligns with Nebius’ own vision of building AI infrastructure with low environmental impact. Our data center in Finland has among the lowest overhead power consumption ratios in the industry, and waste heat generated there is used to warm more than 2,000 households in the nearby town of Mäntsälä.
The Paris facility will be the first equipped solely with Nebius-designed servers from day one — we are no longer using third-party servers or racks. Nodes we are currently setting up were recently certified with the NVIDIA-Certified Systems program, where the hardware was tested on the most comprehensive set of workload performance benchmarks. The server that passed all these tests is the one specifically designed for ML training and high-performance computing. You can learn more about it from one of our previous articles.
The Paris facility will be the first equipped solely with Nebius-designed servers from day one — we are no longer using third-party servers or racks. Thanks to the efforts of our hardware R&D team in optimizing processes, setting up the equipment and deploying systems to a user-ready state will take only two months. The data center in France will receive the first client workloads in November.
This marks a significant step in Nebius’ strategy to build a large-scale network of availability zones worldwide. We are already one of the leading providers of accelerated computing capacity in Europe through our own highly energy-efficient data center in Finland, home to ISEG, the most powerful commercially available supercomputer in Europe.
As a key focus, Nebius’s build-out of its hardware infrastructure includes the expansion of the Finnish DC, as well as additional capacity at colocation facilities and greenfield projects at new locations.
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