Akamai intends to deploy "thousands" of Nvidia Blackwell GPUs across its cloud infrastructure.

The exact number has not been revealed, but the company said it has acquired the chips already and will deploy them for customers to do AI R&D, fine-tuning, and post-training optimization across Akamai's distributed footprint.

“While hyperscalers continue to push the boundaries of AI training, Akamai is focused on meeting the unique demands of the inference era,” said Adam Karon, COO and GM of Cloud Technology Group, Akamai.

“Centralized AI factories remain essential for building models, but bringing those models to life at scale requires a decentralized nervous system. By distributing inference-optimized compute across our global fabric, Akamai isn’t just adding capacity. We’re providing the scale, at minimal latency, that is required to move AI from the laboratory to the street corner and the hospital bed – where the work happens, where the data lives, and where the ROI is realized.”

Akamai launched an Akamai Inference Cloud in March 2025, later expanding it with Nvidia RTX PRO Servers, featuring Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, Nvidia BlueField-3 DPUs, and Nvidia AI Enterprise software in October of that year.

Akamai has been increasingly expanding its cloud offerings, having previously been best known for its CDN services. In 2022, the company acquired cloud hosting company Linode for $900 million.

According to the company, its distributed cloud infrastructure and global Edge network span more than 4,400 locations worldwide.

Akamai said that it has already seen a "strong demand" for the Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, and will continue "to add GPU capacity as part of its cloud infrastructure strategy."