Hot Aisle vs Sesterce

Dell PowerEdge XE9680 servers with 8x 192GB AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs and Intel Xeon CPUs.

Transparent published MI300X rates with self-service VMs metered by the minute through Stripe; 8-GPU bare metal runs on monthly terms.

NetBox-backed inventory plus automated SONiC networking, PXE boot, host setup, and current ROCm drivers, so orchestration is not the first layer.

NUMA-balanced KVM virtual machines with direct GPU access and private isolated networking to avoid noisy neighbors.

8x400G RoCEv2 per chassis plus 100G internet and unlimited bandwidth.

Ubuntu options with ROCm, Docker, and optional K8s/Slurm/Ray installs via cloud-init.

Each site is operated as a single system, owning the hand-off between energy, facility, silicon, network fabric, and orchestration

French sites offering data residency, controlled energy origin, and supply-chain control, drawing on 2 GW of hydro, nuclear, and solar capacity secured under long-term PPAs

A joint venture with SoftBank Group to develop a 1 GW AI data center campus at Bosquel in Hauts-de-France

Single console and API to provision clusters, orchestrate training, serve inference, and meter usage across every Sesterce site, Slurm and Kubernetes native

Purpose-built Tier III+ facilities with direct-to-chip liquid cooling at up to 150 kW per rack, rated at PUE 1.12 under full AI load

Non-blocking NVIDIA Quantum InfiniBand at 800 Gb/s with rail-optimized topology and native RDMA