In a bid to support enterprise-scale AI workloads, CoreSite – an American Tower company – has expanded its partnership with STN, Inc. by hosting STN’s fully-managed private GPU cloud platform, “GPU One,” within CoreSite’s CH2 data centre in Chicago. STN selected this location in order to leverage CoreSite’s high-density liquid-cooling capabilities (supporting more than 100 kW per cabinet) and extensive interconnection ecosystem, which offers low-latency access to public clouds like AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud as well as the Open Cloud Exchange® and Any2Exchange®. The GPU One cluster now comprises more than 1,500 NVIDIA B200 GPUs and is purpose-built for compute-intensive AI training and inference workloads. As Sabur Mian, CEO & Co-Founder of STN, stated: “CoreSite has been a trusted partner throughout STN’s growth journey. When it came time to scale GPU One, our private cloud service for AI builders, we turned to CoreSite for their leadership in liquid cooling in the colocation data centre space and its ability to deliver a customer’s primary liquid cooling solution at CH2 for us is what sealed the deal.”
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Beyond performance, STN also benefited from financial advantages by utilising Illinois’ Retail Sales Tax Exemption programme for IT equipment and software deployed at CH2, enabling “substantial savings” on the hardware and software needed to support GPU One. As Yvonne Ng, Vice President and General Manager, Central Region at CoreSite, observed: “Chicago is an important data centre market that offers attractive tax incentives for increasingly complex customer use cases that require state-of-the-art colocation.” This deployment reflects the growing demand for AI and machine-learning infrastructure, and underscores how CoreSite’s purpose-built CH2 campus with its power, cooling, interconnection and financial-incentive architecture is enabling companies like STN to capitalise on that demand. In addition, the expanding relationship (which began in 2019 with a single rack at CoreSite’s SV7 facility in Santa Clara) signals STN’s broader investment in high-performance infrastructure across multiple CoreSite campuses and global markets.
