Cloud provider Vultr has chosen Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Nvidia to power a large-scale buildout of AI data centers, the companies announced.
The news came from HPE (NYSE: HPE) at its HPE Discover conference in Las Vegas. According to HPE's announcement, reported by the Las Vegas Sun, Vultr — which HPE describes as "the world's largest privately held hyperscaler" — has selected HPE and Nvidia for large-scale AI datacenter deployments built for cloud-scale operations.
Reporting from Investing.com framed the move as part of a broader AI datacenter expansion by Vultr, while 01net carried the same announcement under the banner of "next-generation AI infrastructure." The available sources confirm the partnership and its purpose but do not specify financial terms, the number of facilities, hardware quantities, or a timeline.
In plain terms, a "hyperscaler" is a company that runs enormous fleets of computers and rents that capacity out over the internet. Training and running modern AI models requires specialized chips and tightly engineered systems, and Nvidia's processors paired with HPE's server hardware have become a common foundation for that kind of work. By committing to both, Vultr is lining up the gear it needs to offer more AI computing power to its customers.
Why it matters: the deal is another sign that demand for AI computing is reshaping who buys what in the data center business — and that even privately held cloud players are placing big bets on Nvidia-and-HPE hardware to keep up.