Serverfarm AMS1 and Amsterdam’s Booming AI Ecosystem

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How Serverfarm and AMS1 stepped up to meet a new set of data center needs

Amsterdam-based AI companies are attracting significant investment levels. Overall, the sector is in rude health, making the city a natural home for an AI driven data center demand curve.

But AI companies seeking a data center ‘forever home’ are posing tough questions for some Amsterdam data center providers.

For AI businesses, and their SaaS counterparts (many of which are rapidly becoming AI houses), commercial data center providers play a crucial role. They must address the challenges of densification, liquid and hybrid cooling, and green power. While IT teams are interest in these technologies, their primary concern is ensuring they are delivered in a way that is economical, consistent, and sustainable to support business operations.

Economically delivering data center operations for AI requires design flexibility, near term capacity availability, and secured power to support capacity growth. Additionally, the renovation approach should be already decided.

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In this new competitive landscape, traditional power, space, cooling and connectivity solutions are no longer enough.

Only through a combination of design, operations, and engineering expertise paired with the right infrastructure can a data center said to truly AI-ready. This also extends to understanding the rapidly developing IT stack. It is those data center businesses with pedigree in understanding AI from chips to the workload who will be the winners.

For Serverfarm experts, it begins with understanding the customer domain.

Serverfarm engineers thrive when discussing exact design requirements for particular workloads such as accelerated computing for AI deployments.

We get into the weeds on modular versus monolithic network design configurations, 400G, 800G and 1Tbit routers inside the data center. Backbone connectivity to paired across geographically diverse data centers.

Our design team expertise runs deep on GPU and CPU differences in power draw, cooling and connectivity.

We delve into conversations about software management, configurations, incident resolution, automated testing and back up, change, incident management and problem resolution.

AI is beginning to transform industries, even as SaaS solutions redefine how businesses operate.

Amsterdam Investments

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A short selection of AI investments and funds operating in Amsterdam tells us much as the city’s digital ecosystem:

DataSnipper
Develops AI mathematical and document management solutions to streamline audits. The company is valued at $1bn from $100m valuation making it one of the most successful unicorn companies in Amsterdam.

Mews
Amsterdam based Mews, a Cloud AI hospitality platform raised $101m to become another Dutch Unicorn in early 2024.

OTB Ventures
This venture capital firm declared it had achieved a €170 million oversubscribed fund to build and scale European early stage deep tech startups with a strategic focus on AI development.

Cusp AI
This British-Dutch company Cusp AI raised $30 million in startup capital to develop materials that efficiently capture and store CO2 through AI usage for future climate solutions.

Carv
Amsterdam based Carv uses AI for recruitment purposes and gained $10M in seed funding from Global Founders Capital (GFC). The company launched its platform in March 2024.

Moonlit.AI
Amsterdam legal research tech startup offers a platform for law firms and corporate legal departments in different European jurisdictions with Deloitte as a launch partner

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Local startups and established firms are leveraging the city’s resources to scale modern technologies, while investors are taking the opportunity of Amsterdam’s position at the technological revolution forefront.

AMS1 Prime Location

As Europe’s digital gateway Amsterdam has unsurprisingly emerged as the optimal location for innovation and investment and from its city center location Serverfarm AMS1 sits at its heart.
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