Akamai inked a four-year, $200 million service agreement with a major U.S. tech company at the forefront of the AI revolution. News of the deal came shortly after Akamai announced its acquisition of "thousands" of Nvidia Blackwell GPUs.
The company had said in November that it had already deployed Nvidia’s Blackwell 6000 GPUs in 17 cities, with more on the way.
Under the terms of the GPU deal, Akamai's unnamed customer will utilize a multi-thousand Nvidia Blackwell GPU cluster hosted in a data center designed for efficient, high-density power capacity, as well as other cloud infrastructure services on Akamai's distributed cloud platform.
“This $200 million commitment is a powerful validation of our differentiated strategy to build a definitive global platform for the entire AI lifecycle,” said Akamai COO and GM, Cloud Technology Group, Adam Karon.
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