A Netherlands-headquartered company focused on building infrastructure for the artificial intelligence (AI) sector said it plans to build a new data center in Vineland, New Jersey. Nebius Group, based in Amsterdam, said the facility would be part of a phased development that would be expandable up to a total capacity of 300 MW.
The company on March 5 also said it will add capacity at an existing facility in Kansas City, Missouri, and at a new location in Iceland.
Nebius on Wednesday said the New Jersey project will be built to the company’s own design, with the first capacity completed as soon as this summer. The company previously had said it wanted to have at least 100 MW of installed capacity by the end of this year, and also said it could provide more capacity if needed to meet demand.
Expanding Footprint
“Our first major data center in the U.S. clearly advances our strategic goal of expanding our footprint in the American market as we continue building Nebius into a leading global AI infrastructure provider,” said Arkady Volozh, CEO and founder of Nebius. “This site has the potential to host dedicated large-scale instances, and we have considerable flexibility to accelerate our deployment plans as and when we need to.”
Volos added, “With New Jersey, we now have secured expansion capacity to over 400 MW. And we are actively reviewing options to extend this pipeline further as we seek to grow aggressively to multiples of where we are today.”
The company said it would add a second deployment phase to its Kansas City location, with the new capacity online by the end of June of this year. Officials said the first phase of the Kansas City project is expected online by the end of March.
Iceland Project
Nebius on Wednesday confirmed a new colocation deployment in Keflavik, Iceland, as it builds out more AI infrastructure in Europe. The company said physical deployment and software installation work is underway. The new capacity is expected to be fully operational and available to clients by the end of this month. The Iceland location will be powered by geothermal energy, the primary source of power generation in that country. The company said the Iceland location will be operated by Verne Global, a Nebius partner, that currently has a 24-MW data center campus near Keflavik.
The company also said it is tripling capacity at its first data center in Mäntsälä, Finland, and is considering deployments at other sites as Nebius ramps up its installed capacity in the U.S. and Europe this year. The Finland expansion will increase that facility’s capacity from to 75 MW from its current 25 MW.
Nebius, whose name combines “nebula,” the Latin word for cloud, with a reference to the never-ending Möbius strip, is a technology company that builds full-stack infrastructure to service the global AI industry, including large-scale GPU (graphics processing unit) clusters, cloud platforms, and tools and services for developers. The company has research and development hubs across Europe, North America and Israel. Its core business is an AI-centric cloud platform built for intensive AI workloads.
—Darrell Proctor is a senior editor for POWER.