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INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Green Technology

Vultr and Sabey dedicated to powering AI innovation with a reduced carbon footprint

Vultr expands footprint with new NVIDIA Cloud GPU capacity using clean , renewable , hydropower in Sabey Data centers . global Cloud Compute , Cloud GPU , Bare Metal and Cloud Storage solutions .

Vultr is expanding its Seattle cloud data center region at Sabey Data Centers ’ SDC Columbia location .

Vultr ’ s expansion includes a significant new inventory of NVIDIA HGX H100 GPU clusters , available both on demand and through reserved instance contracts .
The clean , renewable , hydro-powered expansion highlights the company ’ s commitment to enabling organizations to meet their AI innovation and corporate ESG goals by delivering NVIDIA HGX H100 capacity in one of the most efficient , cleanpowered data centers in the US .
Sabey , one of the largest privately-owned multi-tenant data center operators in the US builds and maintains energy-efficient data centers with the goal of reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2029 .
Having recently completed the third of up to nine possible buildings across 130 + acres , Sabey ’ s SDC Columbia location utilizes costefficient , sustainable hydropower .
NVIDIA GPU capacity because of our shared goal of reducing the carbon footprint of AI training and inference ,” said J . J . Kardwell , CEO of Vultr ’ s parent company , Constant .
Robert Rockwood , President , Sabey Data centers , said : “ Given the crucial role data centers and AI play in our lives and in shaping humanity ’ s future , it ’ s important that we power them as sustainably as possible . By joining forces with Vultr , together we bring much-needed resources to innovation teams in a way that benefits business , society and the planet .”
Constant , the creator and parent company of Vultr , is on a mission to make highperformance cloud computing easy to use , affordable , and locally accessible for businesses and developers around the world .
Vultr has served over 1.5 million customers across 185 countries with flexible , scalable ,
Founded by David Aninowsky and completely bootstrapped , Vultr has become the world ’ s largest privately held cloud computing company without ever raising equity financing .
With a portfolio of more than four million square feet of mission-critical space , Sabey Data Centers is one of the largest privately owned multi-tenant data center owners / developers / operators in the US .
Sabey specializes in scalable , custom-built data center solutions recognized for their efficiency , low total cost of ownership , operational maturity and sustained uptime .
Sabey provides sustainable data center services to many of the world ’ s top technology , financial and healthcare companies – the company being a joint venture between Sabey Corporation and National Real Estate Advisors , LLC , acting as the investment manager on behalf of its institutional clients . p
With a 100 ENERGY STAR rating for three consecutive years and a market-leading annualized power usage effectiveness ( PUE ) of 1.15 , SDC Columbia is the most efficient data center in the region , enabling Vultr to efficiently scale cloud computing and cloud GPU capacity with renewable power .
“ The transformative impact of AI has created a rapidly growing need from enterprises and AI innovators for high-performance , scalable , sustainable cloud GPU infrastructure . We chose Sabey for our latest expansion of
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