Vultr, the leading privately-owned cloud computing platform, has solidified its strategic partnership with Singtel, a telecommunications giant, to expand its NVIDIA GPU capacity in Singapore and across Southeast Asia. This collaboration aims to enhance the development of AI infrastructure for model training and inference using Vultr’s cloud GPU platform in conjunction with Singtel’s Paragon platform.

Singtel’s NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPU capabilities will be utilized in Singapore to support Vultr’s customer workloads. With 32 cloud data center locations worldwide, including nine in the Asia-Pacific region, Vultr is known for its provision of NVIDIA accelerated infrastructure for AI tasks in countries like Singapore, India, Australia, Japan, and South Korea.

Headquartered in Singapore, Singtel is a leading communications technology group in Asia Pacific and Africa. It offers AI infrastructure through its Paragon platform, enabling effective training and deployment of AI models for businesses and government entities.

Singtel is advancing these efforts by developing AI-ready Nxera data centers in Singapore, Indonesia, and Thailand, equipped with power density and liquid-cooling capabilities to handle substantial AI workloads using advanced NVIDIA GPUs efficiently.

The partnership will enable Vultr users to deploy large-scale clusters of NVIDIA H100 GPUs in Vultr’s Singapore region by Q3 2024.

J.J. Kardwell, CEO of Constant, Vultr’s parent company, highlights Vultr’s global presence as advantageous for enterprises and AI innovators with global infrastructure needs. Singtel’s Bill Chang emphasizes the shared goal of making high-performance computing accessible and affordable for enterprises through the partnership.

This collaboration builds upon Vultr’s history of partnerships with leading telecommunications providers, including a strategic relationship with Airtel in India.