LONDON, Jan. 13,
2025 /PRNewswire/ -- CoreWeave, the AI Hyperscaler™,
today announced that two of its initial data centers in
Crawley and London Docklands are
now operational. These sites will host some of Europe's largest NVIDIA AI platform
deployments powered by NVIDIA H200 GPUs and scaled with NVIDIA
Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking, seeking to meaningfully advance
the UK's high-performance compute capability.
These are CoreWeave's first operational deployments in the UK
and form part of its initial £1bn investment into the country last
year. CoreWeave also announced London as its European Headquarters in 2024,
as well as announcing a further £750m investment into the UK at the
International Investment Summit in October.
The first data center utilizing NVIDIA H200 GPUs went live in
October 2024 in Crawley with CoreWeave partner Digital Realty,
whilst the second operational data center went live in December 2024 in London Docklands, with partner
Global Switch. Consistent with CoreWeave's commitment to
sustainability, the Crawley and
London Docklands data center campuses are powered entirely by
renewable energy.
In August 2024, CoreWeave
announced it was the first cloud provider to bring NVIDIA H200 GPUs
to its customers – continuing a track record of being first to
market. Through these UK sites, CoreWeave will deliver its
specialized AI cloud platform in the region, helping to empower
customers to shape the next frontier of AI technology.
CoreWeave's infrastructure and cloud services are built from the
ground up and hyper-optimized for AI workloads, unlike solutions
from traditional cloud providers that were designed for web-scale
and are encumbered by a legacy technical architecture. By the end
of 2024, CoreWeave opened 28 data centers globally, with an
additional 10 new data centers planned in 2025.
The Rt. Hon Rachel Reeves,
Chancellor of the Exchequer said: "This investment is a huge vote
of confidence in the UK's digital technology sector and is exactly
the kind we want to see as we grow the economy and use AI to drive
efficiency. We are delivering our Plan for Change with investment
and reform to deliver higher living standards across every part of
the country."
Mike Mattacola, Chief Business
Officer at CoreWeave, said: "Our first operational data
centers in the United Kingdom are
a significant milestone for the company, which builds on the
investment we announced last year. The UK is an important market
for CoreWeave, with our European headquarters here and further
operational plans for the country. We are pleased to be partnering
with Digital Realty and Global Switch to deliver the next
generation of AI infrastructure in the UK."
Séamus Dunne, Managing Director at Digital Realty in the UK and
Ireland, said: "Digital Realty's
partnership with CoreWeave is a major leap for AI infrastructure in
Europe. Hosting one of the
continent's largest NVIDIA H200 GPU deployments at our Crawley campus empowers companies to scale
their AI capabilities, backed by the high-performance, sustainable
infrastructure that we deliver."
Ashley Muldoon, the Chief
Executive Officer of Global Switch, said: "We're excited to be
partnering with CoreWeave to deliver the business' first data
centre in London at our Docklands
campus. This vital infrastructure provides CoreWeave's customers
with resilient and energy efficient solutions, which are critical
to meeting increasing demand from customers in the UK. We look
forward to continuing the development of this partnership."
About CoreWeave
CoreWeave, the AI Hyperscaler,
delivers a cloud platform of cutting-edge software powering the
next wave of AI. The company's technology provides enterprises and
leading AI labs with highly performant and efficient infrastructure
for accelerated computing. Since 2017, CoreWeave has operated a
growing footprint of data centers covering major regions in the US
and across Europe. CoreWeave was
ranked as one of the TIME100 most influential companies of 2024.
Learn more at www.coreweave.com.
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