{
  "id": 10931458,
  "title": "HPE secures $1.2B order from Vultr for AI systems",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/30/hpe-secures-1-2b-order-from-vultr-for-ai-systems",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-30T11:52:31.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Investing.com",
    "slug": "investing-com",
    "url": "https://www.investing.com/news/company-news/hpe-secures-12b-order-from-vultr-for-ai-systems-93CH-4924951"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has secured a massive $1.2 billion contract with Vultr for the deployment of AMD Helios AI Rack systems across the company's U.S. data centers. This marks HPE's inaugural order for the AMD Helios system, which combines HPE Networking scale-up switching and software. Vultr, a leading privately-held cloud infrastructure provider, will leverage these systems to bolster their model training and inference capabilities.\n\nThe AMD Helios AI Rack by HPE packs 72 AMD Instinct MI455X GPUs per rack, paired with AMD EPYC Venice CPUs, AMD Pensando Vulcano AI NICs for networking, and AMD ROCm software. Each rack features six HPE Juniper Networking QFX5252 scale-up Ethernet switch trays to connect the GPUs. The demand for high-performance AI infrastructure continues to outpace supply, and this collaboration with AMD and HPE allows Vultr to access Helios rack-scale compute and scale-up networking more swiftly.\n\nVultr's CEO, J.J. Kardwell, expressed excitement about the partnership, stating that the order accelerates the delivery of Helios rack-scale compute and networking to customers. The success of this collaboration dates back nearly three years when Juniper Networks, now part of HPE, began working with Vultr. HPE President and CEO Antonio Neri emphasized that AI is fueling the most significant infrastructure expansion in history, and through this partnership with AMD and Vultr, they are laying the groundwork for the next wave of AI advancements. The AMD Helios system is engineered for trillion-parameter model training and high-volume inference, supporting open, interoperable rack-scale fabrics like UALink over Ethernet. HPE Services will offer deployment support and liquid-cooling expertise for the AI clusters.",
  "summary": null,
  "key_points": [
    "HPE secures $1.2B contract with Vultr for AMD Helios AI systems.",
    "Vultr to use Helios for model training and inference in U.S. data centers.",
    "Partnership enables rapid deployment of high-performance AI infrastructure."
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}