Cloud provider ResetData selects Nokia for AI factory rollout

CTO Karl Kloppenborg says Nokia was “perfectly placed” to meet the company’s needs.

Australian cloud provider ResetData has chosen Nokia for its rollout of its sovereign AI factory data centres across the country.

According to Nokia, its IP solution will deliver speed, scale and reliability required for lossless, low-latency performance as ResetData targets an Australian cloud services market.

Speaking to CRN Australia, chief technology officer, Karl Kloppenborg at ResetData said the legacy telco brand was “perfectly placed” to support the company.

“Nokia’s local talent and global scale meant they were perfectly placed to meet our performance, rollout and sustainability goals,” he said.

“For example, their backbone infrastructure enables lossless GPU interconnectivity and ‘out of bounds’ external connections at a multi-terabit scale, and their 75 percent reduction in energy consumption complements the energy savings made through our liquid cooling designs.

“The result is more AI training, faster, at lower cost.”

ResetData will deploy the Nokia 7750 Service Router in commercial properties nationwide as part of a series of sustainable liquid immersion cooled AI factories, commencing in Melbourne’s CBD.

While addressing precision timing and other key requirements that are fundamental to the performance of AI infrastructure, the FP5-based Nokia IP platform provides super-fast, reliable and highly secure performance at scale.

In doing so, Nokia’s approach also changes data centre operations by reportedly delivering a 75 percent reduction in energy consumption over previous generations.

Kloppenborg discussed what he hopes to achieve from this partnership.

“Nokia infrastructure will be instrumental to our national AI Factory rollout to deliver new capabilities on-shore and on-demand for government and enterprise teams of all sizes,” he said.

“In addition to our AI Factory rollout, our ResetData AI Marketplace will launch further pre-built, pre-trained and NVIDIA-certified AI solutions for government and enterprise teams of all sizes.”

Sovereign AI ensures systems and data stay within a country's jurisdiction, promoting national security and compliance with domestic laws and regulations.

Kloppenborg said they are moving quickly because sovereign AI is critical to Australia’s international competitiveness.

“Together with the ResetData AI Marketplace, our rollout is delivering critical AI, machine learning and large language model capabilities on-shore and on-demand for the first time,” he explained.

“To make it happen, we needed a partner as committed to sustainability as we are, with local resourcing and global reach, who could meet a demanding timeline, scale from single GPUs to entire AI Factories, and replicate Melbourne’s launch nationally. Nokia has been a core partner at every step.”