Yandex’s former parent company entered the US cloud market

“Our first GPU cluster in the US and the opening of new offices marks an important milestone in our expansion into the US market. Serving US customers using on-premises infrastructure will reduce latency and fully leverage the benefits of our cloud, designed to be powered by AI,” said Volozh, whose words are quoted on the Nebius website.

He added that the company will continue to deploy computing power “across the United States to meet the growing demand for high-quality AI infrastructure.” Nebius is also preparing to open an office in New York.

The opening of the cluster in Kansas City, according to the statement, is planned for the first quarter of 2025. In a first stage, it will be equipped with “thousands of modern Nvidia GPUs, mainly Nvidia Hopper”; In the future, the cluster capacity will increase from 5 MW to 40 MW, which corresponds to approximately 35 thousand GPUs, the company indicated; .

They said they were negotiating the creation of an “even larger second group of GPUs,” scheduled for release in 2025, but did not reveal other details.

Nebius Group was formed as a result of the restructuring of Yandex. Yandex’s former parent company, the Dutch Yandex NV, sold the Russian business to a consortium of investors in July 2024. It withdrew from ownership of the IT company and retained its international business.

In October, the American Nasdaq exchange resumed trading in Nebius Group shares, which were suspended on February 28, 2022 in the context of Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine. Volozh said the return to the stock market opens a new chapter for the company, which focuses on developing infrastructure for artificial intelligence.