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Akamai Technologies Details 4-Yr, $200M Service Pact With U.S. Tech Company, Hosting Multi-Thousand NVIDIA Blackwell GPU Cluster On Its Distributed Cloud Platform

Benzinga·03/05/2026 11:35:22
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Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:AKAM) has provided additional detail on the recent four-year, $200 million service agreement it signed with a major U.S. tech company at the forefront of the AI revolution for high-performance AI compute. Under the terms of the deal, the customer will utilize a multi-thousand NVIDIA® Blackwell GPU cluster hosted in a data center designed for efficient, high-density power capacity, as well as other cloud infrastructure services on Akamai's distributed cloud platform.

The deal underscores enterprise demand for Akamai's integrated AI development and deployment platform and represents one of the world's largest NVIDIA Blackwell RTX PRO™ 6000 Server Edition clusters at scale. The GPU cluster is powered by an AI-optimized Ethernet networking platform, enabling non-blocking, lossless, and high-performance connectivity for large-scale AI factories and GPU-accelerated computing. Additionally, it leverages a high-performance, parallel file storage platform for linear scalability in AI and HPC workloads with NVMe-over-Fabric.