Gcore launches AI Cloud cluster in Amsterdam to help smaller companies get IT resources of a tech giant

Luxembourg-based Gcore, an international provider of cloud and edge solutions, announced on Wednesday that it has launched a new AI Cloud cluster in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, to strengthen its global infrastructure.

The AI Cloud from Gcore is an AI-Infrastructure-as-a-Service that gives smaller businesses access to the IT resources of a tech giant, allowing them to create AI with less investment and minimal technical set-up.

Andre Reitenbach, CEO of Gcore, says, “We are excited to be the cloud provider which is building the first European AI infrastructure. With our British partner Graphcore, we’re making it easier to integrate innovations for all kinds of businesses, small or large. Our second AI Cloud cluster is an important step in this journey.”

What does Gcore’s AI Cloud offer?

Gcore’s AI Cloud is built with Graphcore’s IPUs (Intelligence Processing Units), a brand-new processor especially made for AI computing and Machine Learning processing. The company says they have two times as much power as standard central processing units (CPUs). 

Specialty AI gear, which was formerly exclusively available to large enterprises, is now accessible to businesses of all sizes thanks to the IaaS model. This can be rented by a startup on as little as a per-minute basis.

The new cloud will enable businesses to speed their AI and Machine Learning development throughout Western Europe, along with Gcore’s existing cluster in Luxembourg. The service also gives enterprises access to software tools and integrations to support work involving ML and AI such as TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch, Hugging Face, Paddle, and ONNX.

Gcore says its aim is to increase the geographic reach of its AI Cloud in the coming years. 

Gcore – Everything you need to know

The company claims to be the industry pioneer in cloud and edge content delivery systems, public cloud services, hosting, and security for any organisation. Guinness World Records has acknowledged its worldwide infrastructure.

Gcore offers a wide range of services, including public clouds, managed hosting, content delivery networks (CDNs), cutting-edge streaming platforms for professional streaming and broadcasting of any complexity, defence against DDoS assaults of any intensity, defence against malicious bots, cloud content storage, etc.

Some of the company’s clients include the Government of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (Agence eSanté), TEDx, Avast TradingView investment platform, Sandbox Interactive, German game publisher  Albion Online, Nitrado German games hosting company, American games publisher RedFox Games, Japanese video game publisher Bandai Namco, and online retailers AWOK and Joom.