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Railway taps Claude to design a data center
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Platform-as-a-Service provider Railway has turned to AI to design its data center deployments.
Key facts
- In terms of hardware specs, Gen 2 comprises "the latest generation AMD Zen 5c EYPC CPUs with 96 cores (192 threads) with DDR5, five times more storage than Gen 1, and dual 100G ConnectX-6 NICs
- Railway noted that each Gen 2 site is built "beside its Gen 1 sibling rather than on top of it," enabling the company to "link the two over their own dark fiber: 400G links, across 4 diverse paths
- For the company's first rollout of bare-metal servers, Railway deployed Gen 1 over eight phases across 18 months
- From the initial skeleton, they executed copy-pasta scale-ups in batches of 15-20 percent of site capacity and slowly filled them out
Summary
In a recent blog post, Railway revealed it has turned to Anthropic's Claude to design the buildout of its "Gen 2" data center sites. Claude planned the data center deployment for four geographies, eight or nine different data centers, with "a half-dozen suppliers, dozens of network providers, dozens of technicians, hundreds of line items, thousands of cables, and lots of velcro. According to the company, this needed to line up within a two-to-three week installation window. The company currently runs on a combination of Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), and its own bare-metal servers deployed in data centers.