Blockmate Ventures has signed a binding agreement with Scannit Inc. to acquire its first NVIDIA B200 AI compute node, featuring eight GPUs, for about US$635,000 on a turnkey basis including shipping, data centre setup, installation, network connectivity and onboarding. The purchase marks a shift from a venture builder toward owning AI infrastructure, with revenue generated by renting capacity to AI developers and businesses through a specialist operating partner. Delivery is expected in the first quarter of 2027, subject to vendor timing and NVIDIA allocation, and commissioning should take about one week. Blockmate is expected to receive the majority of gross revenue over an initial 36-month management term. The first deployment is intended as a test of the operating model, to gather data on customer demand, utilisation, rental pricing, uptime, and hosting and power costs.
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