Blacksmith Partners With Rackspace to Accelerate Deployments

Rackspace, 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.

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“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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Accelerating Continuous Integration to Keep Pace with Machine-Speed Software Generation

The increasing adoption of AI coding tools and autonomous agents is now driving growth for Blacksmith as development teams seek to accelerate software delivery. With AI models now generating substantial pull requests and drafting thousands of lines of code in seconds, the constraint is no longer writing code, it is verifying whether that AI-generated code is built and tested before it can be merged. This is rapidly increasing demand for continuous integration (CI) workloads and creating new challenges for development teams seeking to maintain efficient testing and deployment pipelines.

Blacksmith already delivers fast, cost-efficient continuous integration experiences to its customers. By partnering with Rackspace for proven, scalable network, data center, and infrastructure management, Blacksmith can remain focused on optimizing its platform while scaling its infrastructure to support anticipated customer demand.

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“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,” said 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.”

Scaling AI Infrastructure for the Next Generation of Software Engineering

Today’s announcement builds on Rackspace’s multi-year agreement with AMD, which covers an initial 30 MW phased deployment of dedicated AMD compute across Rackspace’s global data centers from late 2026 through 2028, subject to deployment authorizations and financing. The agreement established AMD as a strategic technology partner for the silicon layer of Rackspace’s governed enterprise AI stack, expanding the compute options available to customers as their AI requirements evolve. Through the AMD CPUs Rackspace will deliver to Blacksmith, this investment further translates into the foundational runtime layer for modern AI coding, where autonomous agents can build, run, and fix software at machine speed.