Xference and Aruba Together for Private and Sovereign AI

In Italy, a new infrastructure for AI inference has been established. It was created by the Cagliari-based startup Xference, in collaboration with Aruba. The servers are located within Aruba's data center in Ponte San Pietro. This marks the first step towards building a private AI infrastructure aimed at expanding throughout Europe, ensuring the capability to run AI workloads on a private and sovereign infrastructure.

Sovereignty over Data: Xference and Aruba Create a Private Infrastructure for AI Inference

The new AI inference infrastructure developed by Xference is hosted in colocation and in HaaS (Hardware as a Service) mode at Aruba's IT3 data center in Ponte San Pietro, province of Bergamo. We are talking about an energy-intensive infrastructure, with requirements exceeding 20 kW per single rack. Aruba's support has been crucial for Xference: the provider has taken care of the procurement and operational activation of the servers, as well as the management of networking and security components.

Currently, the infrastructure is still in beta version, involving a limited number of users. The first 100 early adopters are testing the service and, once this phase is completed, Xference will gradually open it to the public.

"The launch of our production infrastructure on Aruba represents a key step: we enter the beta phase with the first users who will be able to harness the power of generative AI without their data ever leaving their perimeter," says Andrea Pili, Co-Founder and CEO of Xference. "Aruba has proven to be a partner capable of fully embracing our mission and supporting us from the early stages with reactivity, scalability per rack, and an operational model perfectly aligned with the needs of a deep-tech startup. This is a first step towards genuine European digital autonomy."

"The operational launch of Xference's infrastructure as the first European Inference Provider in our data centers demonstrates how our network of European infrastructures can provide state-of-the-art AI-ready systems and support the development of new high-performance AI platforms," states Giancarlo Giacomello, Head of Data Center Offering & Colocation Services at Aruba. "Thanks to the combination of colocation and Hardware-as-a-Service, Xference can grow rapidly by transforming capital investments into operational costs while maintaining the highest standards of security, compliance, and reliability, ensuring full governance and data localization, security, and compliance by design, with energy sourced from renewable sources."