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Bridge: Powering the Next Generation of AI Infrastructure

Pradeep Nair and Uday Tennety

Artificial intelligence is transforming industries faster than any technological wave before it, from energy and life sciences to manufacturing and telecommunications. But behind every breakthrough model and data-driven decision lies a critical enabler: compute. And today, access to GPU power defines the pace of innovation.

At Armada, we’ve always believed that the future of AI depends on decentralized, intelligent infrastructure. That’s why I’m thrilled to introduce Bridge, our software product that enables GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) and is designed to make high-performance compute accessible, flexible, and sovereign for anyone, anywhere.

Democratizing Access to AI Compute

The explosion of AI workloads has put enormous pressure on global compute supply chains. Traditional data centers were built for CPUs and batch workloads, not for the massively parallel, real-time demands of generative AI or advanced analytics. Bridge changes that.

Bridge enables data center operators, universities, and telecommunications providers to deploy, manage, and monetize GPU infrastructure at scale. It allows enterprises and service providers to transform underutilized or existing compute capacity into AI-ready resources without the complexity of traditional GPU management.

With Bridge, any organization can offer GPU capacity as an on-demand service locally or globally through Armada’s distributed orchestration layer, complete with multi-tenant scheduling, workload balancing, and granular access control. It’s a new way to participate in the fast-growing AI compute economy.

Why Bridge Matters

Armada exists to bridge the digital divide and make high-performance AI infrastructure accessible everywhere. The most direct path to that future is empowering the operators who already run the world’s compute backbone. Bridge extends Armada Edge Platform and completes the full-stack architecture, providing a unified control plane to allocate, manage, and monetize GPU resources across environments.

Bridge transforms any data center, telco edge location, or university cluster into a fully active AI node. It creates new revenue pathways, accelerates deployment, and brings high-performance compute directly to where data is generated and decisions are made.

The Technology Behind Bridge

Bridge combines bare-metal GPU performance with cloud-native flexibility through Armada’s orchestration stack. Key capabilities include:

  • Dynamic Multi-Tenant Allocation: Fine-grained GPU scheduling across users and workloads.
  • Federated GPU Fabric: Aggregate GPU capacity across data centers and regions into a single, unified pool.
  • API-Driven Control Plane: Manage GPUs, clusters, and billing seamlessly from one interface.
  • Secure, Compliant Infrastructure: SOC 2 and ISO 27001 aligned for enterprise and academic governance.

Key Benefits for Customers

  • New Revenue Stream: Monetize idle or underutilized GPUs through on-demand allocation.
  • Rapid AI Enablement: Deploy GPUaaS capabilities in days, not months, with minimal overhead.
  • Hybrid Cloud Ready: Integrate with existing OpenStack, Kubernetes, or virtualization environments.
  • Low-Latency AI at the Edge: Deliver compute close to end-users for real-time analytics.
  • Network-Aware Orchestration: Optimize GPU placement across distributed sites for efficiency.
  • AI-Driven Differentiation: Support emerging 5G, IoT, and smart city applications.
  • Simplified Management: Automate GPU provisioning and scaling for high-performance workloads.

Sovereign AI Starts with Sovereign Compute

As nations and enterprises pursue Sovereign AI, the ability to build and operate AI systems within their own geographic and regulatory boundaries, Bridge provides a foundation for localized compute autonomy.

By federating distributed GPU clusters while maintaining data residency, security, and compliance, Bridge empowers governments, telcos, and research institutions to develop and operate AI within their own borders, free from external cloud dependencies.

Sovereign AI is not just about owning models or data but it’s about owning the compute fabric itself.

Flexible Deployment Options

Bridge can be deployed as a standalone solution directly on customer owned infrastructure, giving organizations full control over their resources and operational models.

For those seeking turnkey infrastructure, Bridge is also available alongside Armada’s Galleon modular data centers, including the recently announced, megawatt-scale Leviathan. Together, they deliver a fully integrated compute platform with high-density GPU capacity, advanced cooling, and rapid deployability anywhere, from dense urban hubs to remote edge environments.

Integration with NVIDIA: Automating the AI Factory

To meet the demands of AI factories—large-scale environments for inference and model training—Armada has integrated Bridge with NVIDIA RTX PRO™ Servers and NVIDIA BlueField®-3 DPUs.

This integration brings secure multi-tenancy and network offload capabilities directly into the infrastructure layer. By leveraging BlueField DPUs, Bridge can offload compute-intensive networking and security functions from the CPU—enabling fully automated, high-performance AI environments with isolation across compute, storage, and network layers.

This allows operators to deliver:

  • Secure, multi-tenant infrastructure without sacrificing performance
  • Bare-metal, VM, and Kubernetes clusters as-a-service
  • Integrated PaaS features like LLM-as-a-Service and job submission
  • Streamlined operations with accelerated provisioning and orchestration

The result: an AI factory that maximizes GPU utilization, strengthens security, and dramatically reduces operational overhead.

A Product Built for Our Partners

Bridge is now available for deployment across data centers, research networks, and telecom environments. Through the Armada Partner Program, we’re working with infrastructure operators, research institutions, and telcos worldwide to co-create the next generation of distributed AI infrastructure.

If you’re building the backbone of tomorrow’s AI ecosystem, we’d love to work with you.

At Armada, we’re combining connectivity, compute, and real-world AI to solve the toughest challenges right where data is generated. With Bridge, we’re extending the capability of Armada Edge Platform and building the foundation for a smarter, faster, and more sovereign AI-powered world.

Learn more at www.armada.ai/product/bridge