Yotta CEO Sunil Gupta on Supercharging India’s Fast-Growing AI Market - Ep. 225
Jun 3, 2024
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Sunil Gupta, CEO of Yotta Data Services, discusses the growth of India's AI market and the launch of Shakti Cloud, India's fastest AI supercomputing infrastructure with 16 exaflops of compute capacity. They highlight the importance of balancing data center growth with sustainability and energy efficiency, along with the Yotta-Nvidia collaboration for scaling up GPU capacity.
Yotta Data Services leads India's AI market with Shakti Cloud, offering scalable GPU services.
India aims to be a global AI service provider with focus on sustainability and energy efficiency in data centers.
Deep dives
Overview of Yata Data Services and Shakti Cloud Offering
Yata Data Services, led by Sunil Gupta, operates as a cloud service provider in India, offering various data center, colocation, and managed hosting services for the past five years. The company has a substantial GPU deployment, making it one of the largest in India. With their Shakti Cloud, featuring 16,384 GPUs and a comprehensive NVIDIA software stack, users can access a range of AI capabilities from single GPU use to massive parallel processing.
India's Position in the AI Market and Shakti Cloud's Role
Sunil Gupta highlights India's potential to become a major AI market due to its significant digital adoption, skilled IT professionals, and growing economy. With the Shakti Cloud infrastructure, India aims to not only be a consumer of AI but also a global AI service provider. The focus on providing GPU services and an AI supercomputing environment reflects India's vision for AI leadership globally.
Self-Service and Orchestration Capabilities of Shakti Cloud
Shakti Cloud offers a self-service portal for users to access GPU services, create clusters, and fine-tune AI models. The platform allows for online creation of Kubernetes clusters, serverless functions for inferencing, and access to a diverse range of pre-trained AI models. Through a comprehensive software stack and orchestration layer, Shakti Cloud caters to varied user needs from startups to large enterprises.
Focus on Security and Sustainability in Data Centers
Yata Data Services prioritizes green power usage, sustainability, and advanced cooling technologies in its data centers. The company aims to reduce power consumption and increase energy efficiency through innovative cooling solutions and green energy sources. Security measures, including confidential VM features and cybersecurity services, ensure data protection and reliability in handling AI workloads.
India’s AI market is expected to be massive. Yotta Data Services is setting its sights on supercharging it. In this episode of NVIDIA’s AI Podcast, Sunil Gupta, cofounder, managing director and CEO of Yotta Data Services, speaks with host Noah Kravitz about the company’s Shakti Cloud offering, which provides scalable GPU services for enterprises of all sizes. Yotta is the first Indian cloud services provider in the NVIDIA Partner Network, and its Shakti Cloud is India’s fastest AI supercomputing infrastructure, with 16 exaflops of compute capacity supported by over 16,000 NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs. Tune in to hear Gupta’s insights on India’s potential as a major AI market and how to balance data center growth with sustainability and energy efficiency.
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