– Vultr
There was a time in 2025 when it seemed like a new neocloud or GPUaaS provider was popping up every week.
Things have slowed down a bit since then, but there are still plenty of new players emerging to take a swing at the lucrative AI infrastructure market.
For Kevin Cochrane, CMO of global cloud provider Vultr, the drive for this was pretty simple. “How did we get here? Well, with the debut of GPUs and the ability to generate new applications and economics,” he says. “Suddenly, every single data center operator wanted to get in on the neocloud business.”
Sadly, as Cochrane notes, while the motivator might be obvious, the execution is challenging. Those seeking to get a piece of the neocloud pie have varied from existing smaller data center providers, to cryptominers, and some notably peculiar cases.
