Powering AI Innovation: DigitalOcean Bare Metal GPUs in EU Data Center

Whether you’re building a generative video platform like Moonvalley or an advanced coding assistant like Supermaven, GPU computing is now a non-negotiable for engineering AI applications. Whether it’s for training LLMs or powering real-time inference, these processors have become essential infrastructure for startups working on AI products.

DigitalOcean is powering this development by providing a number of AI/ML offerings, including Bare Metal GPUs—dedicated machines with NVIDIA Hopper architecture for the most demanding AI workloads. These computing resources are available in our European data center based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, giving EU-based companies (or international businesses with EU customers) direct access to high-performance AI infrastructure right where they need it.

Lower latency for inferencing in the EU

When it comes to AI applications, milliseconds matter. Placing your inference workloads physically closer to your end users reduces the time it takes for requests to travel to your servers and for responses to return. With DigitalOcean’s Bare Metal GPUs in Amsterdam, companies serving European markets can cut latency compared to running the same workloads in data centers outside of Europe.

This proximity is especially important for real-time AI programs and applications where the ideal user experience depends on quick response times:

• Conversational AI apps requiring natural, responsive interactions

• Computer vision systems processing image or video data in real-time

• Recommendation engines serving customized content suggestions

• Gaming platforms creating dynamic, AI-powered experiences

Our Amsterdam data center location sits at a strategic intersection of major European network paths, providing strong connectivity throughout the region. This network infrastructure advantage, combined with DigitalOcean’s reliable network connectivity, creates an ideal environment for EU-based companies to provide their customers with AI applications and features that feel frictionless.

Privacy at the core

Building AI systems and tooling for European markets means making sense of complex regulatory requirements for data protection and sovereignty. Our commitment to privacy is unwavering in this regard. By using our Amsterdam data center’s Bare Metal GPUs, your data never leaves the EU. Some European industries face additional sector-specific regulations that require data to remain within certain jurisdictions. Banking, healthcare, and government organizations often need to demonstrate clear data sovereignty as part of their operational requirements.

Data sovereignty is also becoming a competitive differentiator. European customers increasingly prefer services that process their data locally, viewing data residency as an indicator of greater security and trustworthiness. A 2023 report from the European Consumer Organisation found resistance in France and Germany to share health data across borders, with just 34% of respondents in both countries willing to share their data with other countries.

By running AI workloads on our Bare Metal GPUs in Amsterdam, your team can develop tools with AI capabilities while maintaining the clear chain of data custody that regulators require. Whether you’re an EU-based startup or an international company serving customers across Europe, keeping data processing within EU borders helps you simplify your compliance strategy and help you meet regional expectations.

The benefits of bare metal for AI/ML workloads

Our Bare Metal GPUs provide direct access to dedicated hardware with no abstraction layers or resource sharing, delivering maximum performance for intensive AI development work. This architecture has advantages:

• Maximum performance. Eliminating virtualization overhead means you get the full processing capability of eight NVIDIA H100 with zero noisy neighbor effects that might cause performance fluctuations.

• Complete system control. Fine-tune CUDA drivers, improve memory management, and implement custom configurations that wouldn’t be possible in shared environments.

• Additional security. Dedicated hardware isolation allows you to implement security measures at the hardware level, ideal for working with protected information, sensitive data, or proprietary models.

• Predictable performance. Consistent response times for inference and reliable training job execution without unexpected slowdowns.

• Optimized hardware. The NVIDIA H100 configuration features 640 GB of GPU RAM, dual Intel Xeon Platinum 8468 processors, and 61.44 TiB of NVMe storage capacity, creating an ideal environment for ambitious AI projects.

• Tailored setup for your needs. Fine-tune your system, whether you’re training massive foundation models or building custom inference pipelines that need special attention.

Our Bare Metal offering combines these advantages with powerful hardware specs, creating an ideal environment for your most ambitious AI projects.

Powering European AI: DigitalOcean Bare Metal GPUs in EU data center

DigitalOcean’s Bare Metal GPUs deployed in our Amsterdam data center give you everything needed to engineer, train, and launch AI applications with lower latency compliance options for European markets. With straightforward pricing that includes storage and bandwidth, plus high-touch engineering support to ensure peak performance, these purpose-built machines remove the complexity from AI infrastructure so you can focus on innovation.

Prodia is a leading AI image generation platform that creates stunning visuals from text prompts in under two seconds through their developer-friendly API. Their service has already powered over 600 million image generations using, in part, DigitalOcean GPU infrastructure:

“We leverage DigitalOcean’s GPU infrastructure globally to best service our international customer base. The platform allows us to accelerate generation speeds while offering an easy-to-use API for AI-powered image generation because of their simple and effective AI/ML infrastructure.” — Stefan Benten, Prodia’s Head of Infrastructure

Whether you’re training LLMs, running real-time inference, or building custom AI systems, our European Bare Metal GPUs provide the computational firepower to power your success with these specifications:

Contact our team today to reserve capacity and discover how Bare Metal GPUs in our Amsterdam data center can boost your AI processing power while meeting the unique needs of European markets.