# Pioneering Sustainable AI Infrastructure **Customer:** Yotta Yotta Shakti Cloud's holistic approach to AI infrastructure, supported by WEKA® NeuralMesh™, delivers unparalleled performance while driving sustainability. ## Results - **60%** Less Cabling Context ## Yotta Shakti Cloud: The first NVIDIA® Cloud Partner (NCP) [Yotta Shakti Cloud](https://shakticloud.ai/), recognized as the first NVIDIA® Cloud Partner (NCP), has emerged as a leader in delivering high-performance and sustainable AI cloud solutions. In today's fast-evolving AI landscape, Yotta has set a new benchmark by combining cutting-edge GPU technology, optimized networking, and energy-efficient power and cooling systems into an innovative infrastructure. The Challenge ## High Performance with Sustainability AI workloads, particularly in machine learning (ML) and deep learning, demand significant computing power and data throughput. Yotta recognized that traditional cloud infrastructure was ill-suited for managing these intensive demands efficiently, often requiring extensive physical resources, high power consumption, and complex operations. The challenge was to create an infrastructure that could balance speed, performance, and sustainability while being flexible and scalable for a wide variety of AI applications. The Solution ## Integrating NeuralMesh into Yotta’s Holistic AI Infrastructure Yotta's solution involved designing an ecosystem where every component—GPUs, networking, power, cooling, and storage—was optimized for performance and sustainability. By leveraging NVIDIA GPUs, a high-speed network architecture, and energy-efficient data center designs, Yotta reduced the physical footprint, enhanced power usage efficiency, and minimized cooling requirements, all while delivering peak AI performance. A key element of Yotta's infrastructure is its storage layer, where NeuralMesh plays a vital role, providing the high-speed, low-latency data access needed to process AI workloads efficiently. Integrating NeuralMesh's intelligent data tiering and zero-copy capabilities into Yotta's design further streamlined data movement, improving performance while keeping operational costs and complexity low. Sustainability Achievements ## A Smaller, More Sustainable Data Center Environment Yotta's commitment to sustainability is evident in several key design decisions: ### Power Efficiency Yotta's infrastructure maximizes performance per kilowatt, reducing energy consumption while ensuring high performance for AI workloads. This focus on power efficiency aligns with Yotta's sustainability goals, minimizing environmental impact. ### Optimized Networking By utilizing 60% less cabling in its infrastructure to decrease network complexity, power needs, and cooling requirements, Yotta enhances operational efficiency and sustainability, while NeuralMesh's L6 networking, combined with DPDK for flow control and congestion control, optimizes network performance with low latency and high throughput. ### Reduced Data Center Footprint Eliminating additional storage gateways and backend network layers allowed Yotta to minimize the amount of physical hardware needed. ### Linear Scaling Yotta's infrastructure scales proportionally as GPU clients increase, ensuring AI services can expand without significantly increasing power or cooling demands. This efficient scaling avoids overprovisioning and conserves energy. The Technology ## NeuralMesh Powers Yotta's Success NeuralMesh is a cornerstone of Yotta's infrastructure, providing the speed and agility needed to support AI and ML workloads. By enabling seamless data transfers between storage and AI processing units, NeuralMesh ensures Yotta's infrastructure can handle even the most data-intensive tasks without performance bottlenecks. The platform's compatibility with bare metal and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) environments provides flexibility, allowing Yotta to streamline its operations and deliver a simplified, cost-effective experience for its tenants. Additionally, NeuralMesh's use of optimized x86 hardware servers enables Yotta to avoid the limitations of fixed, appliance-based architectures, allowing them to offer high-performance AI services without driving up costs. This combination of performance, flexibility, and operational simplicity supports Yotta's long-term strategy of providing sustainable AI cloud infrastructure. The Results ## A Sustainable, High-Performance AI Cloud Through its innovative design, Yotta Shakti Cloud has achieved the following: - **Peak Performance:** Yotta's infrastructure accelerates AI workloads, delivering high performance through NVIDIA GPUs, efficient networking, and optimized storage with NeuralMesh. - **Sustainability Leadership:** Yotta's power-efficient design, reduced data center footprint, and streamlined networking have **significantly lowered its environmental impact** while maintaining high operational efficiency. - **Simplified Operations:** NeuralMesh integration has helped Yotta offer **non-disruptive upgrades, seamless scaling, and automated storage provisioning**, simplifying daily operations and reducing complexity for tenants. Looking Forward ## Setting a New Standard for Sustainable AI Cloud Infrastructure Yotta Shakti Cloud's success stems from its holistic approach to building a sustainable, high-performance AI cloud infrastructure. As an NVIDIA Cloud Partner, Yotta has demonstrated excellence in combining cutting-edge technology with intelligent design to optimize performance while minimizing environmental impact. The strategic integration of NeuralMesh has played a crucial role in ensuring Yotta's infrastructure can meet the demands of modern AI workloads efficiently, sustainably, and cost-effectively. By addressing the challenges of power consumption, data center complexity, and scaling, Yotta continues to pioneer the future of sustainable AI infrastructure, setting a new standard for performance and environmental responsibility in the cloud. > In our evaluation, NeuralMesh was an excellent offering across every dimension — from product fit to meet our and NVIDIA’s exacting standards, to its ability to fulfill and deliver on its promises to Yotta, and its commitment to sustainable AI practices that help to improve GPU efficiency and reduce associated energy consumption. WEKA has proven to be an excellent partner and is a great fit for our rapidly growing AI requirements. We’re excited to see the full extent of what Yotta and WEKA can achieve together in the future. > > — Sunil Gupta, Cofounder and CEO • Yotta [Download PDF](https://cdn.sanity.io/files/ult5g8gw/production/1968e7100bc4c141fa65506f588902e7c80cfc2f.pdf)