AMD and Rackspace Sign Agreement for Phased Deployment of 30 MW of AMD AI Compute | TechPowerUp

Tuesday, June 16th 2026 AMD and Rackspace Sign Agreement for Phased Deployment of 30 MW of AMD AI Compute Press Release by btarunr Today, 06:08 Discuss (0 Comments) AMD and Rackspace Technology, a global enterprise AI infrastructure and solutions provider, today announced the signing of a definitive agreement for the phased deployment of an initial 30 MW footprint dedicated to AMD-based compute deployments across Rackspace's global data centers beginning in late 2026 through 2028. The agreement operationalizes the Memorandum of Understanding announced May 7, 2026, and establishes AMD as a strategic technology partner at the silicon layer of Rackspace's governed AI stack. At full deployment, 30 MW of dedicated AMD compute across Rackspace's footprint 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. This collaboration incorporates both AMD Instinct GPUs (including MI355X, MI350P, and future successor solutions) and AMD EPYC CPUs inside an integrated Enterprise AI Cloud architecture, enabling Rackspace to route each workload to the right compute with full accountability for performance and outcomes end to end. "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," said Gajen Kandiah, CEO, Rackspace Technology. "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." "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, Compute and Enterprise AI, 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." Both companies expect to dedicate sales and marketing resources to identify and engage enterprise customers for AMD compute-powered infrastructure, with each company committing personnel to jointly develop and pursue customer opportunities across regulated industries. This agreement will accelerate delivery of the four integrated capabilities announced with the MOU: Enterprise AI Cloud, Enterprise Inference Engine, Inference as a Service, and Bare Metal AMD Instinct, offering a complete, governed stack from bare metal compute through fully operated inference. Together, the companies aim to establish a new category of managed enterprise AI infrastructure that offers enterprises an alternative to the bare metal model. The shift from AI experiments to agentic workflows running inside core enterprise systems is accelerating demand for exactly the kind of governed, accountable infrastructure this collaboration is built to deliver. loadjs.ready(['jquery'], function() { supported=((navigator.userAgent.match(/Android|iPhone/i) && !navigator.userAgent.match(/iPod|iPad/i)) ? true : false); if (supported) { $('.social-share div.mail').hide(); $('.social-share div.whatsapp').css('display', 'inline-block'); } $('.social-share div a').on('click', function(e) { var network = $(this).data('network'); if (typeof _gaq !== 'undefined') _gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Social Share', 'share-'+network]); if ((network!='email') && (network!='whatsapp') && (network!='reddit')) { e.preventDefault(); var win=window.open(this.href,'','toolbar=0,status=0,width=650,height=450'); } }); }); loadjs.ready(['jquery'], function() { $('.social-share').on('click', 'a', function() { $.get('/news/share/350023'); }); }); Related News Tags: AMD Aug 4th 2025 AMD Readies 16-Core Ryzen 9000X3D CPU with 192 MB L3 Cache and 200 W TDP (355) Aug 21st 2025 Melting 12VHPWR Connector Claims its First AMD RX 9070 XT Victim (109) Sep 8th 2025 AMD Claims Arm ISA Doesn't Offer Efficiency Advantage Over x86 (97) Apr 16th 2026 AMD to Re-launch Ryzen 7 5800X3D as "AM4 10th Anniversary Edition" (156) Sep 3rd 2025 AMD "Zen 6" Processors to Use TSMC 2 nm Node for CCDs, 3 nm for IOD (66) May 31st 2026 AMD Formally Announces Ryzen 7 5800X3D 10th Anniversary Edition and Ryzen 7 7700X3D (163) Feb 19th 2026 AMD Ryzen 10000 "Olympic Ridge" to Debut with 6/8/10/12/16/20/24-Core "Zen 6" SKUs (126) Mar 26th 2026 AMD Announces Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition Desktop Processor with 192 MB L3 Cache (149) May 6th 2026 AMD X970E Chipset Based on Same Promontory 21 Silicon as X870E and X670E, Native Support for CUDIMM (132) Nov 30th 2025 AMD Lists Ryzen 7 9850X3D CPU with 5.6 GHz Boost Frequency (148) Add your own comment Comments on AMD and Rackspace Sign Agreement for Phased Deployment of 30 MW of AMD AI Compute There are no comments yet. loadjs.ready(['jquery'], function() { $('.comments').on('click', '.spoiler .button', function(e) { e.preventDefault(); $(this).next('div').toggle(); }); $('.comments').on('click', '.ispoiler', function(e) { e.preventDefault(); $(this).find('div').css('filter', ''); $(this).removeClass('ispoiler'); }); if ('ontouchstart' in document.documentElement) { $('.comments footer span').css('visibility', 'visible'); } $('.comments').on('click', '.youtube-play', function(e) { e.preventDefault(); var src=$(e.target).parents('.youtube-embed').data('src'); $(e.target).parents('.youtube-embed-wrapper').replaceWith(''); }); $('.youtube-embed').each(function(i, e) { var id=$(e).data('id'); var apiKey='AIzaSyBo0Gh_sh87NqQuYB9t5M5EnzeJws3xdUQ'; $.getJSON('https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?part=snippet&id='+id+'&key='+apiKey, function(data) { $(e).find('.youtube-title').text(data.items[0].snippet.title).prop('title', data.items[0].snippet.title); }); }); if ($('.js--embed-twitter').length>0) { window.twttr = (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0], t = window.twttr || {}; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = 'https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js'; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); t._e = []; t.ready = function(f) { t._e.push(f); }; return t; }(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs')); twttr.ready(function(twttr) { $('.js--embed-twitter').each(function(i, el) { var id = $(el).data('id'); $(el).empty(); twttr.widgets.createTweet(id, el); }); }); } });