{"id":6454,"date":"2025-05-23T16:50:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T20:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/?p=6454"},"modified":"2025-05-26T20:03:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T00:03:37","slug":"whitefiber-bets-on-drivenets-to-power-ai-first-data-center-in-iceland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/whitefiber-bets-on-drivenets-to-power-ai-first-data-center-in-iceland\/","title":{"rendered":"WhiteFiber bets on DriveNets to power AI-first data center in Iceland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"91\" data-end=\"464\"><span id=\"input-sentence~0\">In the high-stakes race to build AI-ready infrastructure, WhiteFiber has found its rhythm in Iceland. The GPUaaS provider has officially deployed DriveNets\u2019 Network Cloud-AI to serve as the core of its newest data center, positioning itself to meet growing enterprise demand for high-throughput, low-latency AI infrastructure without relying on costly proprietary hardware.<\/span><span id=\"input-sentence~1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This facility marks a shift not only in geographic strategy\u2014taking advantage of Iceland\u2019s cool climate and renewable energy\u2014but also in network architecture. WhiteFiber\u2019s decision to adopt DriveNets\u2019 Ethernet-based cloud fabric enables faster GPU-to-GPU and GPU-to-storage traffic, while keeping operations flexible enough to support multiple tenants at scale.<span id=\"input-sentence~2\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Behind the move is a mounting challenge faced by many providers: how to deliver consistent GPU performance while managing dense, compute-heavy workloads under tight latency constraints. The answer, for WhiteFiber, lay in DriveNets\u2019 disaggregated approach to networking\u2014a model that uses white box hardware and centralized control software to sidestep traditional bottlenecks and ensure lossless communication between distributed clusters.<span id=\"input-sentence~3\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Early results are in, and honestly, WhiteFiber\u2019s already pulling ahead. Benchmarks with NVIDIA\u2019s NCCL show clear bandwidth and efficiency gains\u2014legacy Ethernet can\u2019t keep up. For teams working with real-time AI model training? Every second counts. If you can shave even a few off processing time, that\u2019s a legit advantage.<span id=\"input-sentence~4\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>DriveNets didn\u2019t just sit back, either. They\u2019ve extended NeoClouds to let GPU clusters sync across data centers\u2014up to 80 kilometers apart\u2014without losing performance. 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