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Another AI checkbox gets ticked
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is up nearly 4% after announcing that Vultr chose HPE and NVIDIA to help build out its next phase of AI cloud infrastructure. In plain English: more enterprise AI demand, more racks, more networking, more cooling — aka the stuff that makes the AI boom actually run.
What’s in the setup?
This isn’t some tiny pilot hiding in the fine print. The deployment includes NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 systems by HPE, NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet networking, and future use of HPE’s liquid cooling, services, and rack-scale gear. Vultr says global AI infrastructure is still "significantly underbuilt," which is a polite way of saying the shovel sellers are still busy.
Why investors care
For HPE, deals like this help reinforce the idea that it’s not just an old-school server company with a new logo. It’s trying to be a serious plumbing supplier for the AI data center buildout, and that narrative matters when the stock is already riding a big uptrend.
- The stock was trading around $50.19, up 3.74% on the day.
- The broader market was mixed, so this wasn’t just a random tide-lifts-all-boats move.
- Analysts are still pretty friendly here, with several recent buy-side price target hikes.
Big picture: if AI is the party, HPE wants to be the company selling the venue, the AC, and the extension cords.