Blacksmith Taps Rackspace to Accelerate Software Deployments to Production
Key Highlights
- ➤Rackspace signs multi-year Blacksmith agreement for approximately 2 MW Northern Virginia capacity
- ➤Deployment of dedicated AMD EPYC compute and storage expected to begin early 2027
- ➤Rackspace’s AMD agreement covers initial 30 MW phased deployment through 2028
- ➤Blacksmith serves more than 10,000 companies with continuous integration infrastructure
Expert Statements
Aditya “JP” Jayaprakash, Co-founder and CEO of Blacksmith
“When we talk to developers and engineering teams, we keep hearing that AI is making it much easier to write code, but getting those changes tested and ready to ship is becoming the bottleneck. We’re building Blacksmith to help developers merge code faster and feel confident about what they’re shipping. Our partnership with Rackspace will help us scale the infrastructure behind that work”
Gajen Kandiah, Chief Executive Officer of Rackspace
“Modern AI-driven software development demands speed, scale, capacity, and security. At Rackspace, we are proud to provide the infrastructure to support this evolution and support Blacksmith with dedicated compute and storage as they work to accelerate code testing and deployment for their customers and solve one of today’s greatest software challenges.”
Gajen Kandiah, Chief Executive Officer of Rackspace
“We are starting to see innovation in GPU and training workloads drive growing demand for inference and CPU-heavy capacity, and this agreement is exactly the kind of long-term, contracted demand that shift creates.”
SAN ANTONIO, Nov. 10, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rackspace ® (NASDAQ: RXT), the operator of the full enterprise AI stack, and Blacksmith, the infrastructure platform for building and testing code, today announced a multi-year agreement under which Rackspace will provide dedicated compute, powered by AMD EPYC CPUs, together with storage representing approximately 2 MW of capacity in Northern Virginia. The capacity is expected to begin deploying in early 2027, providing Blacksmith with a long-term partner to accelerate software delivery lifecycles and power the modern wave of AI-driven software development.
“When we talk to developers and engineering teams, we keep hearing that AI is making it much easier to write code, but getting those changes tested and ready to ship is becoming the bottleneck. We’re building Blacksmith to help developers merge code faster and feel confident about what they’re shipping. Our partnership with Rackspace will help us scale the infrastructure behind that work,” said Aditya “JP” Jayaprakash, co-founder and CEO of Blacksmith.
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