Telecoms equipment vendor Nokia has been selected by Australian cloud provider ResetData to supply a networking backbone for its rollout of sovereign liquid immersion-cooled ‘AI Factory’ data centres across the country.
The Australian cloud services market in 2024 saw a 19% year on year increase, and sovereign AI ensures systems and data stay within a country's jurisdiction, promoting national security and compliance with domestic laws and regulations.
ResetData claims its AI factories with liquid immersion cooling are up to 10 times as efficient as legacy designs and can cut cloud costs by 40% and emissions by 45% to deliver more sustainable AI cloud operations.
ResetData, which backed by Australasian real estate fund manager Centuria Capital Group, will deploy the Nokia 7750 Service Router in commercial properties nationwide as part of a series of liquid immersion cooled AI factories, commencing in Melbourne’s CBD.
Functioning as a data centre gateway to front-end ResetData’s GPU clusters, the FP5-based Nokia 7750 SR-1x enables connectivity between data centres reaching speeds of up to 800 Gbps.
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“We are moving quickly because sovereign AI is critical to Australia’s international competitiveness,” said Karl Kloppenborg, Chief Technology Officer at ResetData.
"Together with the ResetData AI Marketplace, our rollout is delivering critical AI, machine learning and large language model capabilities on-shore and on-demand for the first time.
"To make it happen, we needed a partner as committed to sustainability as we are, with local resourcing and global reach, who could meet a demanding timeline, scale from single GPUs to entire AI Factories, and replicate Melbourne’s launch nationally. Nokia has been a core partner at every step."
Vach Kompella, Senior Vice President and General Manager, IP Networks at Nokia, said dynamic new-generation cloud builders like ResetData seize the opportunities that artificial intelligence generates.
"Nokia is ready with an IP portfolio primed for the stringent and exacting data demands of AI infrastructure," Kompella said.
"Combining speed, capacity and reliability with cost-efficiency and sustainability, Nokia IP is a top choice for the world’s most modern and secure data centres.
"We are pleased to partner with ResetData as they deliver Australia’s first sovereign AI at scale.”