AI infrastructure provider Hydra Host has secured $100 million in Series A funding.The funding round was led by Kindred Ventures, with participation from Nvidia, Ark Invest, SPLY Capital, Jasper Lau's Era Funds, Comcast Ventures, Magnetar, and Peak6.Existing investors Founders Fund, 10x Founders, Sterling Road, and Flume Ventures also participated.Hydra Host has said it will use the funding to expand its GPU-as-a-Service capacity to meet growing global demand.Hydra Host works with partner data centers instead of developing and operating its own.Through the Hydra Host GPUaaS, customers can deploy, manage, and monetize GPU capacity using the Brokkr AI Factory Operating System. According to Hydra Host, the company has Brokkr deployed across more than 50 data centers in the Americas, APAC, and EMEA regions.“We are proud to partner with Kindred Ventures, a leading AI-focused venture capital fund in Silicon Valley, and Nvidia, creator of the GPU and our strategic partner, as Hydra enters its next growth phase,” said Aaron Ginn, co-founder & CEO of Hydra Host.“We have spent years building the go-to operating system for global GPU deployments for data centers that want to become an AI factory. This funding will expand our data center footprint, scale our platform, and support our global customer base, who are looking to rent GPUs easily anywhere and everywhere. It will also help grow our software team, worldwide operations, and data center support to make converting megawatts into tokens easier.”Kindred Ventures founder and managing partner Steve Jang added: As hundreds of new AI data centers come online and thousands more are planned, Hydra Host offers an enlightened two-prong strategy of an operating system to procure, provision, and orchestrate GPUs as a service for data centers, and an intelligent and responsive offtake network for the world’s leading AI inference platforms, frontier labs, and enterprises."This is the asset-light scalable neo-cloud solution needed to enable compute supply to connect with workload demand, and ultimately help scale this global token economy. We are thrilled to invest in the Hydra Host team, vision, and mission.”Earlier this year, Hydra Host signed a non-binding letter of intent (LOI) with Duos Edge AI to deploy a high-density Nvidia GPU cluster for an unnamed “leading global technology customer.”According to the companies, the project supports an underlying GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) partnership that is expected to generate approximately $176 million in revenue over a 36-month term. Duos Edge would be the data center and asset owner for a 2,304-GPU B800 cluster rental contract, and Hydra would be the operator.