CoreWeave Selects Nokia to Back its Hyperscale AI Cloud

Cloud provider CoreWeave is set to deploy Nokia IP and optical platforms in data centres across the United States (US) and Europe. Selecting Nokia for this initiative is part of a large-scale wide area network build-out to support high-performance AI infrastructure. 

The company regards Nokia’s infrastructure as ultra-fast and reliable as it aims to support the low latency communications so critical to enabling the critical AI boom. Nokia will deploy its IP routing and optical transport portfolios globally as part of an extensive backbone build-out behind CoreWeave’s hyperscale AI cloud.

Its solution also aims to drive 30% more traffic within the same energy envelope, which is fundamental to continued skyrocketing demands of AI and machine learning workloads within the data centre sector.

This news comes in the wake of CoreWeave announcing a £1bn (US$1.25bn) expansion into the UK to reinforce its data centre engineering, operations, finance and market strategies - in addition to opening multiple facilities across the country. This is designed to continue advancing AI.

Supporting compute-intensive workloads

At its heart, CoreWeave powers the most compute-intensive complex workloads and AI-centred applications. This requires a networking backbone that provides fast and reliable customer access to its services and critical network connectivity to support its AI cloud infrastructure. 

This is where Nokia comes in, which is particularly timely given the requirements for generative AI (Gen AI) and machine learning continue to grow across the data centre sector. With this in mind, the Nokia IP and Optical portfolios stand to provide high programmability and customisation for CoreWeave to evolve with continued changing traffic behaviours and growth.

“CoreWeave has chosen Nokia hardware to power its backbone and edge platforms to meet the performance, stability and scalability demands that today's and tomorrow’s AI and ML hyper scale clouds require,” comments Jim Julson, Director of Networking at CoreWeave.

“With the explosion of demand centred around the infrastructure required to meet these demands, Nokia has proven to be a critical partner and we have no doubt that as CoreWeave continues to scale, Nokia will be there to help facilitate a world-class cloud experience for all our customers.”

Confronting a energy-intensive AI boom

Worldwide, businesses within the data centre sector are having to confront the sheer enormity of AI development. As demand continues to skyrocket, data centres are having to find a range of ways to cater to the needs of their customers, from needing higher performance and more scalable infrastructure.

Data centres supporting AI are faced with higher computational power, which inevitably has an overall impact on an organisation’s sustainability outlook. In this vein, Nokia’s delivery in low latency for CoreWeave could contribute to improved energy efficiency, in addition to greater innovation.

“As the hyperscaler behind some of the biggest AI enterprises and labs in the world, CoreWeave is at the forefront of innovation in unexplored territory. That requires proven reliability, performance at scale without compromise and the increased efficiency Nokia’s automation solutions bring,” says Vach Kompella, Senior Vice President and General Manager of IP Networks business at Nokia.

“This approach secures lossless and ultra-low latency delivery every single time – regardless of traffic peaks or unexpected events. We are looking forward to deploying Nokia IP and optical platforms in CoreWeave’s backbone as it expands its global network of data centres.”

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