Ori Industries is to become the first company deploy Nvidia’s new H200 chips in the UK as the London tech firm seeks to ramp up its capacity to cater to the rapidly-growing needs of AI businesses.
Ori said the powerful GPUs will become available to customers from January 2025, followed by the rollout of Nvidia’s GB200 exascale computers, which will be in use from the following April. On its website the company is now accepting applications to reserve H200 capacity in the new year.
The H200 GPUs deliver 141GB of memory at 4.8 terabytes per second, nearly double the capacity and 2.4x more bandwidth compared with its predecessor, the Nvidia A100. They were first unveiled by Nvidia in November last year with deliveries thought to have commenced in the second quarter of 2024. Alongside the GB200 exascale computers, the tech has been used by the world’s biggest AI businesses including Meta, DeepMind and OpenAI.
Mahdi Yahya, CEO and founder of Ori, told UKTN: “Ori will be the first to deploy NVIDIA H200 GPUs in a UK data centre, offering them to UK businesses and international companies requiring UK-based compute from January 2025.
“We’re also preparing to introduce the NVIDIA GB200 system to the UK, with availability for both local and global customers starting in April 2025. Hosting the GB200 system demands advanced cooling and power infrastructure, and preparations are already in progress at a UK data centre.”
Ori industries was founded in 2018 to deliver GPU cloud infrastructure for artificial intelligence applications.
The company is backed by early-stage VC firm Episode Ventures and London-based Force Over Mass Capital. Yahya has recently argued for the UK to bolster its sovereign cloud infrastructure.
The H200 chips are also set to be used alongside AMD Instinct GPUs by London-headquartered hyperscaler Nscale, which has a renewable energy-powered data centre in Glomfjord, Norway. The company told UKTN it had “secured future sites across the UK and Europe which provide up to 250 MW of capacity for us to expand our full-stack AI cloud platform.”
Nscale this week completed a $155m Series A funding round, one of the biggest of its kind in the UK.
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