CoreWeave selects Dell’s latest water-cooled servers powered by NVIDIA’s GB200 Grace Blackwell superchip
As the AI infrastructure arms race continues, Dell Technologies has played a central role in the rapidly growing market. At one end of the AI-enabled edge-to-cloud continuum, Dell is shipping AI-enabled PCs (which received a recent rebrand at the Consumer Electronics Show), and in data centers, the company’s partnerships and AI infrastructure and has the pedigree to ride the wave of increased capital investment to support current and future demand for our services.
In December, Dell Technologies announced an expanded partnership with CoreWeave, a cloud infrastructure provider specializing in compute-intensive workloads such as AI. CoreWeave begins using Dell’s PowerEdge XE9712 server racks equipped with NVIDIA’s GB200 Grace Blackwell superchip. CoreWeave also uses Dell IR7000 racks with fully integrated liquid cooling technology.
“Dell’s chief operating officer (COO) Jeff Clark said in a statement: “The possibilities with AI are endless, and Dell is at the epicenter of this revolution. With the purchase of the first fully integrated liquid-cooled Dell IR7000 rack featuring NVIDIA GB200 NVL72, we are giving CoreWeave’s enterprise customers the power of AI. We were able to provide the speed and scalability to accelerate our projects.”
According to reports, CoreWeave has received investments from NIVIDA, Cisco, Pure Storage, and others, and is planning an initial public offering at a valuation of up to $35 billion this year. The company was founded in 2017.
On January 13th, CoreWeave announced the start of operations of two data centers in the UK. The facility uses NVIDIA H200 GPUs and Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking solutions. The data center in Crawley, UK went live in October last year with support from Digital Reality, and the second data center in London’s Docklands went live in December with support from Global Switch.
In a statement about the expanded partnership with Dell Technologies, CoreWeave Chief Strategy Officer Brian Venturo said: Dell Technologies is a strategic partner in delivering world-class performance at scale, bringing cutting-edge cloud services to market, and helping customers build next-generation AI applications. ”
Liquid-cooled data center infrastructure has higher initial capital costs compared to traditional air-cooled solutions, but this is offset by lower long-term operating costs. Liquid cooling is more efficient than air cooling and can support higher density rack configurations.
