Yotta Data Services inks deal with Telangana, to set up 25,000 GPUs in AI City

HYDERABAD: India’s largest AI supercomputer, equipped with 25,000 high-performance graphic processing units (GPUs), is all set to come up on a purpose-built 50MW high-density liquid-cooled AI Cloud data centre campus in the proposed AI City in Hyderabad. The Telangana govt on Thursday inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with AI, sovereign cloud, and digital transformation player Yotta Data Services.
The first phase of the supercomputer, consisting of 4,000 high-performance GPUs and the first Data Centre within the campus – codenamed Yotta H1 – will be operational within the next 24 months, the company said.

Though neither the Telangana govt nor Yotta divulged the investment the hyperscaler set-up would entail, industry sources said with the average cost of setting up one GPU in the region of $50,000 (excluding the cost of opex and land), the investment required for setting up just the first 4,000 GPUs could be around $200 million. Once fully built for 25,000 GPUs, the figure could go upwards of $1.25 billion.
According to Yotta, the AI Cloud hyperscaler data centre campus at AI City will house a specialised GPU cloud infrastructure providing access to high-performance computing resources powered by around 4,000 NVIDIA H100/H200 GPUs or higher chipmakers such as NVIDIA. It will have the capacity to scale up to over 25,000 GPUs over time, all connected with high-speed InfiniBand or equivalent ethernet networking.
The AI supercomputer is slated to transform Hyderabad AI City into a global centre of excellence, company officials said. The data centre, which will be powered primarily by green energy sources, will offer startups, educational institutes, research labs, enterprises, and govt a flexible “pay-as-you-use” access to high-performance computing and various AI platform services, Yotta said. CM A Revanth Reddy said the setting up of the AI supercomputer and data centre will power Telangana to new heights.