India Deploys Massive NVIDIA Blackwell Cluster
India is deploying over 20,000 NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs in a landmark $1 billion initiative, creating one of Asia's largest AI superclusters. The $3 billion project, a partnership with Yotta, aims to provide massive shared compute resources for startups and research, establishing a new global baseline for AI infrastructure. The deployment utilizes the full NVIDIA AI software stack, targeting agentic and physical AI workloads.
- This initiative is part of the broader IndiaAI Mission, a government program with over $1 billion in funding aimed at building a comprehensive AI ecosystem. The mission focuses on increasing compute capacity, developing sovereign AI models trained on Indian languages and cultural contexts, and providing funding for AI startups. - The supercluster will be located at Yotta's 60 MW D2 hyperscale data center in Greater Noida, with the campus being scalable up to 250 MW. It will utilize 800 Gbps NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand networking and liquid-cooling technologies to manage the high-density compute. - Yotta, a part of the Hiranandani Group, is India's first NVIDIA Partner Network cloud partner (NCP) and will offer GPU-dense cloud services on a pay-per-use basis through its Shakti Cloud platform. The company has long-term plans to scale beyond 80,000 GPUs by 2027 and potentially exceed one million GPUs within five years. - The Blackwell Ultra GPUs feature a dual-reticle design with 208 billion transistors and introduce the NVFP4 precision format, delivering 15 PetaFLOPS of dense compute. This architecture is specifically designed to accelerate trillion-parameter model training and large-scale inference workloads. - In addition to the hardware, NVIDIA is establishing one of its largest DGX Cloud clusters in the Asia-Pacific region within Yotta's infrastructure. This will provide access to NVIDIA's Nemotron open models, NVIDIA NIM microservices, and the full NVIDIA AI Enterprise software stack. - This project is part of a larger push by India to attract over $200 billion in AI infrastructure investment by 2028. This includes significant committed investments from major U.S. tech companies and a government-supported venture program of approximately $1.1 billion for deep-tech sectors.
