Nokia deployment to support immediate roll-out of Australia’s first sovereign and sustainable liquid immersion-cooled AI Factory data centres.
Nokia has been selected by Australian cloud provider ResetData to supply a networking backbone that supports its immediate roll-out of sovereign ‘AI Factory’ data centres across the country.
The Nokia IP solution will deliver the speed, scale and reliability required for lossless, low-latency performance as ResetData targets an Australian cloud services market that in 2024 saw a 19% year on year increase.
Sovereign AI ensures systems and data stay within a country’s jurisdiction, promoting national security and compliance with domestic laws and regulations. ResetData’s AI factories with liquid immersion cooling are pitched as up to 10 times as efficient as legacy designs – cutting cloud costs by 40% and emissions by 45% to deliver more sustainable AI cloud operations.
Backed by Australasian real estate fund manager Centuria Capital Group, ResetData will deploy the Nokia 7750 Service Router in commercial properties nationwide as part of a series of highly efficient and sustainable liquid immersion cooled AI factories, commencing in Melbourne’s CBD. While addressing precision timing and other key requirements that are fundamental to the performance of AI infrastructure, the FP5-based Nokia IP platform is pitched as providing super-fast, reliable and highly secure performance at scale. In doing so, Nokia’s approach is said to also revolutionise data centre operations by delivering a 75% reduction in energy consumption over previous generations.
Functioning as a data centre gateway to front-end ResetData’s Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) clusters, the FP5-based Nokia 7750 SR-1x enables connectivity between data centres and to the Internet with massive routing scale – reaching speeds of up to 800Gb/s.
“We are moving quickly because sovereign AI is critical to Australia’s international competitiveness. 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,” said Karl Kloppenborg, Chief Technology Officer, ResetData.
“As 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. 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 centers. We are pleased to partner with ResetData as they deliver Australia’s first sovereign AI at scale,” said Vach Kompella, Senior Vice President and General Manager, IP Networks, Nokia.
To find out more about the project, we asked Karl Kloppenborg, Chief Technology Officer, ResetData, further questions about the project.
What AI and Machine Learning workloads will your AI factories support first?
As Australia’s first sovereign public AI Factory, AI-F1 will enable all-new projects like homegrown Australian large language models, complex research projects like pharmaceutical development, critical scientific simulation, foster emerging space technologies and more. This will build on the scores of NVIDIA-certified AI solutions already deployable with the ResetData AI Marketplace.
How does Nokia’s platform help you meet your sustainability targets?
ResetData’s unique combination of Centuria CBD office locations, NVIDIA-certified architecture and liquid cooling can slash emissions up to 45%. Nokia’s FP5 routing silicon not only meets our exacting AI performance and rollouts goals, it also cuts energy use up to 75% to redirect further energy use to AI training and inferencing.
What steps are you taking to ensure data stays compliant with Australian regulations?
The federal government defines an Australian business as being more than 50% locally owned, locally resident for tax purposes and having its principal place of business in Australia. AI-F1 is the first sovereign public AI factory that complies with these procurement requirements. AI-F1 is ISO27001, PSPF and SOC 2 security compliant. Best-in-class security is embedded for data at rest and in flight e.g. our AI Marketplace automatically flags workflows that are not sovereign from end-to-end.
What were the biggest challenges in scaling your AI infrastructure and how did Nokia assist?
It all comes down to connectivity. Unlike legacy data centres, next-gen AI Factories use unprecedented GPU interconnectivity and precision timing for AI training and inferencing. Nokia’s backbone enables lossless synchronous multi-terabit ‘out of bounds’ connections to external systems at scale.
How will the ResetData AI Marketplace support local AI development and deployment?
With the ResetData AI Marketplace, Australian teams of all sizes will have the choice of pre-built, pre-trained and NVIDIA-certified solutions with low-code or no-code integrations and workflows that they’ll be able to deploy in days and weeks, not months and years.
