Rackspace Technology just gave its shareholders something they haven’t had in a while: a reason to celebrate. The managed cloud company’s stock surged roughly 30% on June 16 after it signed a definitive agreement with AMD to deploy AI compute infrastructure across its global data center footprint.
The deal formalizes what started as a handshake. Back on May 7, the two companies signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding outlining plans for a “governed Enterprise AI Cloud” targeting regulated and sovereign workloads. Now that preliminary framework has teeth, with a binding contract committing to a phased rollout of 30 megawatts of AMD-based AI compute capacity from late 2026 through 2028.
What the deal actually looks like
The partnership pairs AMD’s Instinct GPUs and EPYC CPUs with Rackspace’s managed services layer. AMD provides the raw horsepower, Rackspace wraps it in the compliance, security, and operational guardrails that enterprises in regulated industries need before they can deploy AI at scale.
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