ResetData unveils AI supercomputer to boost Australian businesses through local innovation
The Nvidia-powered AI-F1 promises AI performance with less energy and water use of legacy data centres.
ResetData has partnered with Nvidia to launch AI-F1, Australia's most powerful public sovereign AI supercomputer that’s built to support home-grown innovation.
“A sovereign nation risks withholding the future of its citizens — and stifling the innovation of its businesses — by exporting its intellectual property and control to others,” said ResetData co-CEO, Marcel Zalloua.
Built on NVIDIA H200s, ResetData said it can perform twice as many AI-specific calculations as the nation’s current public supercomputing infrastructure and surpasses the capabilities of Gadi and Setonix systems in Australia.
AI-F1 utilises Nvidia NIM microservices as part of the AI enterprise software platform and a marketplace provides access to pre-built, pre-trained and Nvidia-certified AI solutions across accounting, legal, retail, technology and engineering sectors.
“Providing Australian businesses with access to this type of capability will give them an opportunity to really test and innovate in an environment that can produce outcomes from processing huge data sets to creating sovereign LLM,” Zalloua told CRN.
Cutting the environmental cost of AI
Australia's legacy data centres consume more than 47 billion litres of freshwater a year and more energy than South Australia. With the data centre fleet set to double by 2030, and AI workloads being ten times more resource-intensive than cloud workloads, ResetData paid close attention to the environmental footprint.
AI-F1 utilises liquid immersion cooling technology that reduces emissions by up to a 45% and lowers operational costs by up to 40% compared to legacy data centres. It operates with zero wastewater and ten times better cooling performance in one-tenth of the floorspace of traditional data centres, according to Reset.
Zalloua acknowledged that developing sustainable data centres is extremely challenging and the industry will need innovation, financial sacrifice and the desire to develop solutions.
“I have no doubt that we as a country could lead this journey. We have committed to building the most sustainable data centres and we pride ourselves on our zero waste water and repurpose first mantra,” he said.
AI capabilities are the infrastructure that will unlock economic growth and empower communities into the future — like the rail lines or freeways in past centuries, according to Reset.
“Today, AI is that new rail line. Now is the time to start laying it down, to build the infrastructure that ensures Australia shapes its own future, rather than handing that power to foreign nations,” he said.
With its supercomputer, Reset said it’s helping launch Australia’s AI future.
“If our nation wants to compete globally, if we want to define and secure our future for generations to come, we must invest in building and supporting sovereign AI capability,” he said.