Rackspace Technology and AMD sign memorandum of understanding to establish new category of governed enterprise AI infrastructure

Rackspace Technology and AMD have signed a memorandum of understanding to build what they call a new category of governed enterprise AI infrastructure.

The companies said on Thursday that the framework is designed for regulated and sovereign workloads and would center on a Rackspace-managed enterprise AI cloud. Rackspace said the proposed stack would use AMD Instinct GPUs and EPYC CPUs.

Rackspace said the collaboration is intended to produce four offerings, including an Enterprise AI Cloud and Inference as a Service. The company is pitching the effort as a production AI platform for organizations that need more control over security, governance and operations.

The announcement was published on Rackspace's investor relations site and mirrored in its newsroom on May 7. Rackspace also highlighted the partnership in a blog post explaining its push into production AI.

The companies did not disclose pricing, customer commitments or a deployment timeline. It is also not yet clear whether the MOU will become a binding commercial agreement.

For now, the deal is a signal that Rackspace wants to position itself as the managed operator for enterprise AI deployments, with AMD supplying the underlying compute layer.