How CoreWeave Continues to Scale AI Growth with Bulk

CoreWeave is partnering with Bulk Infrastructure for one of the largest deployments in Nvidia AI across Europe.

The AI hyperscaler will establish this partnership at the N01 data centre campus in Vennesla, Norway. As part of this partnership, CoreWeave will use Bulk’s N01 campus to deploy a large-scale Nvidia GB200 NVL72 cluster which will then be interconnected with ultra-fast Nvidia Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking. 

Bulk is a leading provider of sustainable digital infrastructure and aims to support the deployment in significantly enhancing compute capacity in Norway. Having secured 400 MW at the site with potential up to 1GW, it expects the site to be operational by Summer 2025.

Advancing European data centre growth

Located in Southern Norway's Agder region, just outside Kristiansand, the N01 data centre campus is located next to one of the largest transformer stations in Europe, with direct and redundant connections to multiple hydropower stations supplying 100% renewable energy. 

CoreWeave has been working to accelerate its AI infrastructure for some months now, having announced an initial investment of US$2.2bn across Europe to build new data centres that will be powered by 100% renewable energy.

The company also announced plans in 2024 for an ambitious expansion into the UK with a US$1.25bn investment aimed at reinforcing its engineering, operations, finance and market strategies, in addition to opening multiple data centres in the country.

Delivering a cloud platform of cutting-edge software powering the next wave of AI, CoreWeave provides businesses and leading AI labs with highly performant and efficient infrastructure for accelerated computing.

“I am pleased to hear about the collaboration between CoreWeave and Bulk Infrastructure in the establishment of CoreWeave’s new AI data centre in Norway,” Norwegian Minister of Digitalisation and Public Governance, Karianne Tung, shares.

“The goal of the Norwegian government is to establish a national infrastructure for AI towards 2030. Norway being selected as one of the host countries for CoreWeave’s expanded AI-infrastructure in Europe, shows we are attractive internationally as a location for high quality data center-services. 

“As minister of digitalisation, I am confident that the Bulk-CoreWeave partnership will add value to the further development of AI in Norway.”

The power of Nvidia Blackwell technology

Nvidia’s GB200 NVL72 is able to connect 36 Grace CPUs and 72 Blackwell GPUs in a rack-scale design within the data centre. 

It is a liquid-cooled rack-scale solution that has a 72-GPU NVLink domain that acts as a single massive GPU. As a result, it delivers 30X faster real-time trillion-parameter LLM inference.

The GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip is a critical component of the NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 and connects two high-performance Nvidia Blackwell Tensor Core GPUs and an Nvidia Grace CPU using the NVIDIA NVLink-C2C interconnect to the two Blackwell GPUs.

Nvidia’s technology has been hailed as a breakthrough for modern data centres running AI, cloud and high-performance computing (HPC) applications. It is able to offer higher performance and memory bandwidth with twice the energy efficiency of today’s leading server processors.

Such a deployment represents a step forward in scaling advanced AI compute capacity across Europe.

“We’re excited to partner with Bulk to further expand our regional footprint and capacity in Europe to support the growing need for AI and high-performance computing across the region,” says Mike Mattacola, Chief Business Officer at CoreWeave. “Bulk's commitment to sustainability, future-proof infrastructure and ability to scale supporting our expansion plans make them an ideal partner in Norway.”

Jon Gravråk, CEO at Bulk Infrastructure, adds: “Working with a globally renowned AI-company like CoreWeave marks a significant milestone for Bulk. Securing an AI deployment of this size demonstrates our capability to meet the needs of our major customers.

“Our N01 data centre Campus is uniquely equipped to meet the stringent demands of AI workloads, and this collaboration aligns perfectly with our mission to provide sustainable and scalable digital infrastructure solutions.”

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