Aethir secures 2,304 B300 GPUs
- Axe Compute said April 22 it signed a $260 million, 36-month contract to deploy 2,304 NVIDIA B300 GPUs, with Aethir supplying the cloud infrastructure. - The cluster is slated for a single U.S. Tier 3 data center, backed by 4.8 megawatts of redundant power and AI-focused storage. - Aethir had said in March it was already rolling out B300 capacity across multiple regions for enterprise AI. (aethir.com)
Axe Compute, not Aethir, announced the deal: a $260 million, 36-month contract for a 2,304-GPU NVIDIA B300 cluster, with Aethir providing the underlying decentralized cloud infrastructure. (markets.businessinsider.com) (aethir.com) Axe Compute disclosed the agreement on April 22, 2026, and said the deployment will run from a single Tier 3 data center in the United States. The contract includes AI-focused high-speed storage alongside the GPUs. (markets.businessinsider.com) The company said the site will have 4.8 megawatts of dedicated power on an N+1 redundant basis, and that deployment is targeted to begin in the third quarter of 2026. The contract also includes a deposit, prepayment, and monthly advance payments on a take-or-pay basis. (markets.businessinsider.com) A B300 cluster is a large pool of graphics processors tied together for artificial intelligence work such as model training and inference. NVIDIA’s DGX B300 reference system uses eight B300 GPUs per machine and 288 gigabytes of memory per GPU, for 2.3 terabytes total. (docs.nvidia.com) (nvidia.com) That matters here because the preliminary claims circulating online blurred the roles of the companies and some hardware details. The public filings and company posts point to Axe Compute as the contracting party and Aethir as the infrastructure provider behind the deployment. (markets.businessinsider.com) (aethir.com) Aethir had signaled this expansion a month earlier. On March 19, it said it was the first decentralized GPU cloud to deploy NVIDIA B300 GPUs across multiple regions at production scale and that more enterprise announcements were expected in 2026. (aethir.com) In its April 27 post, Aethir cast the Axe Compute contract as one of the largest single GPU infrastructure deals yet disclosed in decentralized cloud. Axe Compute called it the largest enterprise engagement in its history. (aethir.com) (markets.businessinsider.com) The next test is execution: getting more than two thousand Blackwell Ultra GPUs installed, powered, and online on the Q3 2026 schedule Axe Compute has promised. (markets.businessinsider.com)
