Nebius will deploy an Nvidia H200 GPU cluster at a data center owned by Patmos in Kansas City, Missouri.
At full potential capacity, the initial 5MW cluster can expand to a maximum of 40MW, or about 35,000 GPUs.
In a statement, the European AI cloud firm said the cluster is scheduled to go live in Q1 of 2025, and at initial deployment will primarily consist of H200 Tensor Core GPUs, before hosting Nvidia’s Blackwell platform ”later in 2025.”
Nebius originally teased the North American location during a tour of its Mäntsälä data center in early October.
The company also plans to triple the capacity of the Finnish data center, planning to place upwards of 60,000 GPUs at the facility and grow its capacity from 25MW to 75MW.
Separately, Nebius has also pledged to invest upwards of $1 billion in AI infrastructure in Europe by mid-2025, plans which will see it develop build-to-suit data centers at greenfield sites and colocations, in addition to its recently announced GPU cluster in Paris.
“Our first GPU cluster and offices represent a pivotal step in our expansion in the US market,” said Arkady Volozh, founder and CEO of Nebius. “Serving American customers from American facilities means low latency and maximizes the advantages of our AI-native cloud. We will be building more fully owned GPU clusters across the US to meet the exploding demand for high-quality AI infrastructure from US AI developers and enterprises.”
Nebius was formed over the summer after the European operations of Yandex were split off from the Russian operations. The Amsterdam-based part of the firm retained the company’s Finnish data center, its Nebius AI unit, as well as data firm Toloka AI, edtech provider TripleTen, and autonomous driving firm Avride.
The US hosting firm Patmos announced its plan to convert a former printing press in Kansas City, Missouri, into a data center last week.
The company says it “provides refuge for the digital exile” and offers what it calls “uncancellable hosting solutions that it claims are “free from the threat of Big Tech censorship.”
