Rackspace will deploy 30MW of AMD AI infrastructure at its data centers to serve clients working in regulated industries.

The companies have signed a deal which will see deployments begin later this year and continue through to 2028.

According to Rackspace, the deal will “represent meaningful capacity to serve regulated enterprise workloads, including healthcare providers who have expressed early interest in accelerated compute for clinical AI and inference at scale.”

It will see AMD Instinct GPUs, including the MI355X, MI350P, and future iterations of AMD silicon, integrated into an enterprise AI Cloud architecture, alongside AMD Epyc CPUs. This will apparently enable Rackspace to “route each workload to the right compute with full accountability for performance and outcomes end-to-end.”

Gajen Kandiah, CEO of Rackspace, said: “Enterprises in regulated industries need AI infrastructure that is governed from the ground up, with one operator accountable for business outcomes, not a collection of vendors each owning a piece.

"This collaboration combines the right compute with the right operating model and delivers something the market hasn't offered before: a governed AI stack with one accountable partner from silicon to outcomes."

Rackspace data centers include facilities in London, UK; Sydney, Australia; Dallas, Ashburn, Chicago, and Silicon Valley, US; Hong Kong; Frankfurt, Germany; and Amsterdam, the Netherlands

“As enterprise AI evolves, customers need infrastructure that can deliver the right mix of accelerated and general-purpose compute for each workload,” said Dan McNamara, senior vice president and general manager for compute and enterprise AI at AMD.

“By bringing together leadership AMD AI compute solutions and Rackspace’s governed cloud operating model, we are helping regulated enterprises deploy high-performance AI infrastructure with the openness, scalability, and accountability needed to run AI at enterprise scale.”