Super Micro (SMCI) is launching a new business line dedicated to helping customers build out full data centers, including everything from GPUs and servers to networking, cooling, and electrical systems through a single vendor.
According to Supermicro, the offering, called Data Center Building Block Solutions, will cut down on what’s called time-to-online, or the time from when a customer puts in an order for data center components and when they are actually up and running.
Customers don’t start making money on data centers until they’re powered up and training or running algorithms, which puts pressure on companies to build out the massive facilities as quickly as possible.
“With this new business line, we now offer services to expedite the construction and buildout of complete data centers. Our liquid-cooling options are designed and optimized specifically for the latest generation of GPUs, CPUs, and other electronics,” Supermicro CEO Charles Liang said in a statement.
“These technologies can cut data center power consumption by up to 40% when using the Supermicro liquid-cooling infrastructure components, compared to existing air-cooled data centers,” he added.
Constructing a data center is a complex task that requires companies to coordinate everything, from delivering GPUs on time to the type of ventilation needed to keep the chips and server racks cool and running.
Data center construction has become a massive business for third-party vendors like Supermicro since the onset of the AI explosion. Companies ranging from Amazon and Google to Microsoft, Meta, and xAI are building enormous data centers across the country, driving demand for not only high-powered GPUs from the likes of Nvidia and AMD, but also networking capabilities and server racks that hold those chips.
Shares of Supermicro are up some 81% year to date, but just 15% over the last 12 months. The company is still recovering from accusations of accounting irregularities and failure to comply with export controls by the short-selling firm Hindenburg Research in August 2024.
In October 2024, Ernst & Young resigned as Supermicro’s auditor over concerns related to the company’s “internal controls over financial reporting.” The announcement sent shares cratering 33% at the time.
In December 2024, Supermicro released a statement saying that an independent committee found no evidence of misconduct on the part of the company’s executives or board.
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