Yotta Data Services Private Limited is making one of India’s largest AI infrastructure bets with a $1.5 billion investment to deploy 8,000 NVIDIA Blackwell B200 GPUs. The deployment is expected to go live between December 2024 and January 2025 and is aimed at empowering India’s growing AI ecosystem—ranging from startups to premier research institutions such as IITs—focused on developing next-generation large language models (LLMs).
“Our commitment to IndiaAI is that by December and by January, these 8,190 Blackwells will be up and live, because IndiaAI is flush with demand for making more LLMs,” said Sunil Gupta, CEO of Yotta Data Services, in an interview with AIM.
This major upgrade builds on Yotta’s existing infrastructure of 8,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs and 1,000 L-40s, which already support some of the country’s most ambitious AI initiatives. Gupta highlighted that Sarvam AI, one of India’s leading AI startups, was allocated 4,096 GPUs to train and scale their models. “Initially, we provided about 1,600, and as more GPUs came online, we delivered the balance. They are now using all 4,096 GPUs,” he said.
Another fast-growing player, Soket AI Labs, has recently secured 1,536 GPUs from Yotta, which will power their upcoming model training and dataset creation efforts. “They have been allocated 1,536 GPUs…we have kept these GPUs reserved for them,” Gupta added, noting a significant increase in demand as startups move from experimental model development to full-scale inferencing workloads.
To make access frictionless, Yotta has introduced a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) layer, allowing enterprises and startups to access GPU resources through APIs without having to manage hardware complexity. This approach is designed to speed up AI adoption and democratize access to compute power.
Looking ahead, Gupta confirmed that once regulatory approvals are in place, the new Blackwell GPUs will be deployed to support critical LLM projects across industries. With this investment, Yotta is positioning itself as a cornerstone of India’s AI revolution, providing the infrastructure backbone needed to compete globally in the race for AI innovation.
