Mac-based cloud infrastructure provider MacWeb has launched a new cloud region in New Jersey.

The new US East region joins its existing US West cloud region in Silicon Valley.

The region gives customers access to cloud Mac mini and Mac Studio cluster nodes located near Manhattan and major network exchanges.

The US East deployment is designed for Mac production workloads in the cloud, between 50 and 500 Mac mini or Mac Studio cluster nodes, and for CI/CD farms for iOS and macOS, media and creative pipelines, and AI inference on Apple silicon.

"Many application and AI engineers already develop on the Mac and want their cloud infrastructure to look and feel like what's on their desk," said Eric Bickford, CEO of MacWeb.

"MacWeb gives them that environment in the cloud using clustered bare-metal Apple silicon hardware in a region that sits close to the hyperscalers they already use. The US East region is for teams that care about latency, cost, and getting into production quickly, not just experimenting."

"Traditional data centers are dominated by 1U and 2U servers that push hard on power and cooling," Bickford added.

"A dense Mac mini cluster gives our customers the compute they need in a compact footprint with high performance per watt. For operators who are already thinking about grid constraints and capacity planning, that matters as much as raw speed."

The region is located in an Evocative data center in Secaucus, New Jersey, and is connected directly to New York City via a high-performance backbone, and onwards to London, Boston, Montreal, Chicago, and Washington, DC.

"MacWeb has been a longstanding customer in Evocative’s West Coast data centers, and we’re excited to witness the growth of their business," said Derek Garnier, CEO at Evocative.

"Their expansion into our New York metro facility illustrates our commitment to delivering on our customers' rapidly evolving AI and application requirements. Evocative's highly redundant, mission-critical data center facilities give enterprises and startups options as they explore AI development, hybrid cloud architectures, and infrastructure diversification."

MacWeb aims to complement, not replace, the use of hyperscaler cloud platforms, including Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. The location was selected due to its proximity to interconnects, enabling hybrid deployments.

Evocative's New Jersey data center spans 105,000 sq ft (9,755 sqm) and 10MW of capacity.

A number of companies offer Macs-as-a-Service, including MacStadium, Roundfleet, and Amazon Web Services.