Robust and flexible platform supporting large-scale GPU cluster for AI-driven autonomous vehicles boosts Turing’s speed-to-market by 75%.
Digital Realty, a global provider of cloud-and carrier-neutral data centre, colocation and interconnection solutions, has announced that Japanese Artificial Intelligence company Turing, has established its cutting-edge computation platform for full driving automation at Digital Realty’s NRT10 data centre in Japan.
Turing, a pioneer in developing full driving automation technology, is creating an end-to-end self-driving system powered by AI to control all driving functions, including steering, acceleration and braking, using only vehicle camera data.
The company’s advancements include ‘Heron,’ a multimodal generative AI for sophisticated decision-making using text and visual data, and ‘Terra,’ a generative world model that simulates realistic driving scenarios as videos. Turing’s flagship project, ‘Tokyo30’, aims to achieve Level 5 full driving automation for 30 minutes or more in Tokyo’s urban areas by the end of 2025.
To support this ambitious initiative, Turing has developed the Gaggle Cluster, a powerful computation platform equipped with 96 NVIDIA H100 GPUs. NRT10, a certified NVIDIA DGX-ready data centre, offers a high-density power supply and advanced infrastructure that maximises GPU performance and efficiency.
Operated by MC Digital Realty, Digital Realty’s joint venture with Mitsubishi Corporation in Japan, NRT10 is part of PlatformDIGITAL, Digital Realty’s global data centre platform. The facility delivers several key benefits for Turing:
• Accelerated time-to-market: Turing’s AI development timeline has been reduced from one year to just three months compared to an on-premise build.
• Ready-to-deploy, high-density colocation solution: NRT10’s modular design allows rapid configuration and deployment, reducing infrastructure requirements from 20 racks to just eight while enhancing efficiency and scalability.
• Maximised GPU performance: NRT10’s advanced cooling and power systems ensure optimal GPU efficiency and reliability.
• Flexible expansion: The campus-style configuration of NRT10 supports easy scalability as Turing’s computational needs evolve.
Yu Yamaguchi, CTO at Turing, said: “As the global race to develop full driving automation systems accelerates, securing computing resources quickly is crucial. Digital Realty’s high-performance and flexible data centre enabled us to swiftly deploy a powerful GPU cluster that delivers maximum performance in a short period of time, further accelerating our AI development for full driving automation.”
Serene Nah, Managing Director and Head of Asia Pacific at Digital Realty, said: “Digital Realty is excited to be at the forefront of this transformative journey, leveraging our extensive AI experience and expertise to support Turing’s groundbreaking AI innovation. By providing a high-performance and flexible data centre environment, we are enabling Turing to rapidly deploy and scale their critical AI computations. This collaboration not only accelerates the development of Turing’s full driving automation technology but also sets a new standard for the efficient and effective deployment of AI solutions. We are committed to helping Turing and other innovative companies achieve their goals, shaping the future of how the world operates through our advanced AI infrastructures and forward-thinking data centre solutions.”
NRT10’s capabilities and Digital Realty’s operational expertise position the facility as a cornerstone for supporting next-generation AI workloads, empowering organisations like Turing to advance AI-driven innovation and accelerate speed-to-market for revolutionary technologies.
