Akamai Lands Four-Year $200M Deal for Massive NVIDIA GPU Cluster
Akamai signed a four-year $200 million service agreement to host a multi-thousand NVIDIA Blackwell GPU cluster for high-performance AI compute on its distributed cloud platform. The cluster features AI-optimized Ethernet networking and NVMe-over-Fabric storage, underscoring demand for Akamai’s integrated AI development and deployment services.
1. Service Agreement Overview
Akamai signed a four-year, $200 million service agreement with a major U.S. tech company to host a multi-thousand NVIDIA Blackwell GPU cluster on its distributed cloud platform.
2. High-Performance Infrastructure
The GPU cluster leverages NVIDIA Blackwell RTX PRO 6000 Server Edition units with AI-optimized Ethernet networking, ensuring non-blocking, lossless connectivity and linear scalability via NVMe-over-Fabric storage for large-scale AI and HPC workloads.
3. Platform Expansion
Akamai has expanded its global IaaS footprint to 41 data centers and enhanced its Managed Container Service, building on its October 2025 launch of Akamai Inference Cloud to bring AI inference closer to end users.
4. Strategic Impact
This agreement validates Akamai’s strategy to deliver an integrated AI development and deployment platform and is poised to drive enterprise demand and revenue growth over the four-year term.