# Hydra Host > Bare metal GPU infrastructure for AI and HPC workloads. Dedicated single-tenant servers, deployed across 93+ data center locations worldwide. Operates Brokkr, the monetization and management platform for AI Factories. ## Home Hydra Host provides dedicated bare metal GPU servers for AI workloads. Infrastructure is globally distributed across 40+ active data centers and instantly deployable. The company operates Brokkr, a standardized control plane and lifecycle automation platform purpose-built for AI Factories. ### Confidential Metal - Zero Trust for AI SOC 2 certified, ISO 27001 pending. - Dedicated Bare Metal: Single-tenant by design. No hypervisor, no co-located tenants, no side-channel exposure. - Your Keys Only: Hydra provisions the server, hands you the keys, and steps away. No management agents or remote shells. - Encrypted at Rest: Full disk encryption out of the box. Data unreadable without your keys, even under physical seizure. - Confidential Compute: Intel TDX and NVIDIA Confidential Compute create hardware-enforced encrypted execution environments. - Remote Attestation: Cryptographically verify hardware is genuine and firmware unmodified before deployment. ### Platform Features - Host Level Access: Full root access to dedicated bare metal servers. No hypervisors, no shared resources. - Geo/Jurisdictional Options: Deploy in specific regions for data sovereignty, export control, and compliance. - No Capex: Rent bare metal GPUs on flexible terms with no upfront investment. - API: Provision, terminate, and manage entire fleet programmatically. Single API across all data centers. - Outsourced Maintenance: 24/7 HPC engineers handle hardware failures, diagnostics, and triage. - Cost Effective: Wholesale pricing across global network. Flexible contracts from interruptible to reserved. - Scalability: Add burst capacity on demand. Scale from single node to full clusters. - Security/Privacy First: Single-tenant bare metal with full disk encryption. ### Solutions - Buy GPUs: Enterprise-grade GPU hardware at competitive prices with market-driven pricing. - Rent GPUs: Monetize GPU infrastructure with low overhead. Hydra handles orchestration, billing, and customer management. - Sovereign AI: Build sovereign AI infrastructure for nations with export control compliance. ### GPU Inventory - NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPU: from $3.75/hr - NVIDIA H100 PCIe: $2.50-$3.10/hr - NVIDIA A100 PCIe: $0.80-$1.10/hr - NVIDIA Grace Hopper SuperChip: $3.99-$4.99/hr - NVIDIA L40: $0.55-$0.90/hr - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090: $0.40-$0.65/hr ### Global Presence - 41 locations in the Americas - 20 locations in Europe - 20 locations in the Middle East - 12 locations in Asia-Pacific - 93 total data center locations ### Partners Lenovo, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, NVIDIA, Dell, PNY. --- ## Products & Platforms ### Brokkr for Data Centers Brokkr is a monetization platform designed for bare metal compute. It centralizes provisioning, billing, and monitoring infrastructure on a single platform, accessible through both a UI and one API. Data centers use Brokkr to monetize GPUs across multiple channels. #### Monetization Channels - Long-Term Partner Contracts: Access Hydra Host's partner network for stable, long-term revenue streams. - On-Demand Marketplace: List resources on Brokkr marketplace for global customers seeking flexible solutions. - Direct Customer Rentals: Offer compute resources directly to your own customers via Brokkr's provisioning and billing. - Interruptible Instances: Convert idle compute capacity into profit without affecting primary workloads. - White-Label Storefronts: Brand and sell compute under your own identity. #### Core Features - Fully Automated Provisioning: Deploy via UI or API with no manual intervention. - Customizable Provisioning: Custom cloud-init scripts, selectable operating systems, adjustable disk layouts. - Automated Billing & Payments: Integrated metering, invoicing, and payment processing. - Real-time Device Monitoring: Advanced troubleshooting tools and robust support infrastructure. - Security: Access control, system stability assurance, SOC2 compliance. #### Advanced Services - In-depth Pricing Insights: Market data for informed pricing strategies. - Hardware Procurement: Strategic partnerships with NVIDIA and leading OEMs. - HPC Engineering Services: Expert team to design, build, and operate large-scale compute clusters. - Financing: Financing partnerships to accelerate infrastructure deployment. #### Global Footprint - Partners with 40+ data centers worldwide. - Manages approximately 20,000 GPUs. - Infrastructure deployed across North America, Europe, and Asia. Platform: https://brokkr.hydrahost.com/login ROI Calculator: https://hydrahost.com/calculator ### GPU Catalog Hydra Host offers a comprehensive GPU catalog for enterprise procurement with wholesale pricing and end-of-life support. #### NVIDIA GPUs NVIDIA B200, H200, H100 (SXM5 80GB, PCIe 80GB), A100 (SXM4 80GB, SXM4 40GB, PCIe 80GB, PCIe 40GB), L40, L40S, GH200 (Grace Hopper), DGX H100, RTX A6000, GeForce RTX 4090, RTX 3090. #### AMD GPUs AMD Instinct MI250, MI300. #### CPUs Intel Xeon Scalable (e.g., Dual Intel Xeon Platinum 8480, 112 cores), NVIDIA Grace CPU Superchip (72 Arm Neoverse V2 cores), AMD EPYC 9354. #### Memory HBM2e, HBM3, HBM3e (GPU memory). GDDR6, GDDR6X, GDDR7 (GPU memory). DDR5 ECC: 32GB RDIMM, 64GB/128GB/256GB LRIMM. LPDDR5X (Grace Hopper). #### Storage NVMe SSD: 3.84TB, 7.68TB, 15.36TB, 30.72TB. #### Networking Mellanox Spectrum-2 switches, HPE Aruba CX 6400 switches, InfiniBand NICs, Ethernet NICs, SmartNICs, high-speed interconnects and cabling. ### Hydra Interruptible Hydra Interruptible rents idle high-performance servers between long-term contracts at 20-50% off on-demand pricing. Servers are bare metal with full hardware-level control, no virtualization, and no shared tenancy. - No minimum rental periods, cancel anytime without penalty. - GPU capacity in 40+ data centers worldwide through a single unified API. - Everything is API-driven with custom images and cloud-init support. - 2-minute warning before interruption for clean workload migration. #### How It Works 1. Use Hydra's API to find and launch an interruptible server. 2. Set up your stack in 5-20 minutes with cloud-init, images, and disk layouts. 3. Attach to scheduler, run jobs natively at low cost. 4. Receive 2-minute notification before reclaim to cleanly migrate workloads. #### Target Use Cases AI Developer Platforms, AI Live & Batch Inference, AI Distributed Training, AI Compute Marketplaces and Resellers. --- ## Solutions ### Sovereign AI Hydra builds national AI Factories that generate real revenue from global AI companies and put nations in control of their own digital future. The platform provides predictable cash flows from Hydra-sourced global AI customers with domestic margin capture through Brokkr-powered automation. #### Key Features - Interoperable Sovereign Platform: One operating system for every operator, data center, and GPU in a country. Brokkr handles provisioning, operations, and customer offtake automatically. - Direct Monetization for Self-Reliance: Connects infrastructure directly to leading AI companies. The nation earns the server-layer margin, not foreign hyperscalers. - Export Control Compliance: Hydra's Proof of Presence framework works with OEMs, US embassies, and the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS). #### National Interoperability Multiple investors and operators can finance independent projects across the same Brokkr platform, accessing the same global customer base. Every stakeholder benefits from common tooling. Nations running on Hydra build cohesive national infrastructure instead of fragmented data centers. #### Case Study: El Salvador Hydra is the official AI infrastructure partner of El Salvador. Developing a sovereign AI program and national-scale data center alongside a major GPU OEM. Established a new AI Office, launched an AI lab, deployed the country's first GPU cluster, and is developing data center capacity with the national power company. Partners: Crusoe, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Lenovo, NVIDIA, Density AI, Dell. ### AI Factory Accelerator AI Factories are high-performance computing data centers optimized for AI workloads. Hydra's AI Factory Accelerator supports investors and operators across the entire lifecycle. Through Brokkr, infrastructure connects instantly to direct customer demand. #### Six-Step Support 1. Planning & Site Design: Capacity, power, rack layouts, cooling, GPU configurations. Supports retrofitting and greenfield. 2. Financing AI Datacenters: Financing based on real-time Brokkr usage data and market demand. 3. Procurement at Scale: Global vendor relationships with NVIDIA and top OEMs. Pricing leverage passed to partners. 4. Monetization & Customer Distribution: Brokkr connects hardware to global customer base. Supports spot instances and marketplace integrations. 5. Infrastructure & Provisioning: PXE booting, IPMI control, cloud-init OS deployments out of the box. 6. Ongoing Operations Support: Hardware maintenance, monitoring, and customer management. ### Data Center Solutions Hydra Host helps data centers launch new AI Factory buildouts and monetize existing underutilized GPU capacity. The end-to-end platform provides infrastructure, software, and customer demand to turn GPUs into cash flow. #### Monetization Benefits - Instant Monetization: Connect directly to global demand from AI startups, enterprises, and research labs. - Hardware Procurement & Financing: Access to NVIDIA GPUs with financing underwritten by usage data. - Global Scale: Deployed in 40+ data centers managing 20,000+ GPUs worldwide. - Automated Operations: Brokkr handles provisioning, billing, and monitoring. - Proven Demand: Official NVIDIA Cloud Partner with trusted customer pipelines. Sign Up: https://brokkr.hydrahost.com/signup ### GPU Clusters 10,000+ GPUs deployed worldwide in large-scale, reliable GPU clusters available on-demand or long-term. Clusters deployed across the US, India, Norway, Sweden, Singapore, Germany, France, and Taiwan. #### Active Deployments (15 clusters) - 1024 x H100 (12 months, US) - 1024 x H100 (24 months, US) - 1024 x H100 (24 months, Singapore) - 512 x H100 (1 month, Sweden) - 256 x A100 (12 months, US) — 2 clusters - 144 x A100 (12 months, Germany) - 128 x H100 (3 months, India) - 128 x H100 (12 months, France) - 128 x H100 (6 months, Taiwan) - 96 x H100 (12 months, India) - 64 x H100 (12 months, India) — 2 clusters - 50 x 4090 (12 months, US) - 32 x H100 (1 month, Norway) #### Featured: ExaCluster H200 144 H200 Hopper GPUs, 192 96-core CPUs, 36TB DDR5 RAM, 270TB NVMe storage, 100kW power. Customers: Together.ai, Valdi, Vultr, Massed Compute, Speechify, Sortium, EnergyX, SF Compute. --- ## Services ### Procurement as a Service End-to-end GPU and HPC hardware procurement with access to a global supplier network and high-volume purchasing power. Hydra consolidates procurement so clients deal with one partner instead of individual vendors. #### Key Benefits - Top Supplier Network: Global network of trusted suppliers. - High Volume Purchasing Power: Best prices on enterprise-grade hardware. - End-to-End Process: Single partner relationship. #### Hardware Categories GPUs (NVIDIA B200-RTX series, AMD Instinct), NVMe SSDs (3.84TB-30.72TB), networking switches and NICs, rack cabinets, DDR5 ECC memory. Supplier Network: Dell, HPE, Lenovo, Gigabyte, ASUS, PNY, Supermicro, AIVRES. ### HyPerformance Consulting Security advisement, assessments, and HPC consulting tailored for resilient infrastructure. - HPC Architectural Assessments - Compute Guidance and Design - Technical and Business Roadmaps - Scalable Compute Performance Optimization - Cost Performance Optimization - Compute Systems Resilience - Security Advisement and Assessments - Colocation, Hardware Procurement, and HPC Cluster Services ### Hydra Capital Capital solutions from $15M to $250M+ for GPU and HPC equipment. #### Financing Solutions - JV Structures: Founder-friendly scaling for as little as 5% down. - Procurement and Finance Consulting: Sourcing and term sheet negotiation. - GPUaaS Leasing: Fast execution for long-term scaling. - GPU Loans: Own assets with maximum flexibility. Supported: Debt financing, leasing, equity transactions, revolving credit, complex financing. Contact: Kai Golden, Director of Hydra Capital. --- ## Company ### About Hydra Host was founded in 2021 to pioneer an alternative to centralized cloud providers. Headquartered in Miami, FL. Mission: Give users unparalleled access to diverse compute worldwide with strict reliability while providing tools for independent data centers to profit and grow. #### Values - The Unified Cloud: Hundreds of independent data centers under one unified platform. - Choice Over Control: Vendor lock-in is bad for the industry. - The Best of Both Worlds: Cloud flexibility with bare metal economics. #### Leadership Aaron Ginn (CEO), Garrett Johnson (COO), Ariel Deschapell (CTO), Kai Golden (Director of Hydra Capital), Nick Sedar (Director of Business Development), Ryan Horjus (Director of Sales Engineering), Gabriel Perez (VP of Procurement), Ryan Hatch (Product Manager), Miky Bayankin (Product Manager). ### Partners The Hydra Partner Program connects AI companies, data centers, and hardware suppliers with bare metal GPU infrastructure. #### Partner Types - Innovators: AI, ML, researchers, NLP, generative AI. - Providers: Data centers, consultancies, managed service providers. - Suppliers: OEMs and VARs. #### Current Partners Deep Green Energy, VDURA, Positron, Computacenter, Data Sales, MSearch, Gynger. Partner Login: https://hydrahost.kiflo.com/signin --- ## Contact - Website: https://hydrahost.com - Email: Sales@hydrahost.com - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hydrahost/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/hydrahost