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Blacksmith Taps Rackspace to Accelerate Software Deployments to Production

  • Rackspace & Blacksmith announced a multi-year agreement for Rackspace to provide dedicated AMD EPYC CPU compute & approximately 2 MW of storage capacity in Northern Virginia.
  • The infrastructure deployment is expected to begin in early 2027 to support Blacksmith's AI-driven software development & testing needs.
  • The partnership addresses the bottleneck of verifying & testing AI-generated code by accelerating continuous integration workflows.
  • Blacksmith will leverage Rackspace's scalable infrastructure to optimize its platform while focusing on customer demand growth.
  • The deal builds on Rackspace's broader multi-year agreement with AMD for a 30 MW phased deployment of dedicated AMD compute across global data centers from late 2026 through 2028.
  • Blacksmith's platform helps over 10,000 companies run CI 2–40x faster without managing underlying infrastructure.
Company
Rackspace US, Inc.
Keywords
Nasdaq:RXT, Rackspace US, Inc., AI, Enterprise AI, Software, Blacksmith, Code, Developers